Leisure and Work in China (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Liu, Huimei

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to explore the meaning and significance of leisure in Chinese society, as well as the relationship between leisure and work that reveals so much about a society's cultural values.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003858829
• Artikelnr.: 69854831

Autorenporträt

Huimei Liu is Professor in the School of Philosophy at Zhejiang University, China. She has been instrumental in establishing 21st-century leisure studies in China. Integrating philosophical, socio-psychological, and cultural perspectives, her key research areas encompass leisure's relationship with happiness, work, ethics, identity, education, and health. Her work has appeared in a wide range of leisure journals, and Huimei has held visiting scholarships at Pennsylvania State University, USA (2007-08) and the University of Alberta, Canada (2012-14, 2016). She is currently Managing Editor of Leisure Studies, Associate Editor of the Journal of Leisure Research, Associate Editor of Leisure Sciences, and Editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, 1. The Evolution of Work and Leisure in China: A Historical
Analysis of Vacation Policies, Leisure Practices, and Ideological
Influences (Pre-Qin to 1949), 2. Fundamental Issues in Understanding
Leisure and the Shift of Research Paradigms in Leisure Studies, 3. Critique
of Modern Society and Aesthetic Critique: Two Possible Approaches to
Leisure Research and Their Implications on Leisure and Work, 4. Free Labour
and Contemporary Leisure Forms in China, 5. A Marxist Labour Value Theory
Perspective on Work and Leisure, 6. Reshaping the Concept of Leisure and
Labour in the Era of Post Covid-19, 7. The Coupled Logic of Labour and
Leisure in the Digital Era: Playbour, 8. Leisure and Labour: The Debate
between Arendt and Byung-Chul Han on "Leisure", 9. The Relationships
between Leisure and "Lying Flat" Phenomenon: An Emerging Chinese Societal
Issue, 10. From Serious Leisure to Devotee Work: An Exploratory Study of
Yoga, 11. Work and Leisure in Taiwan: Examining the Antecedents and
Consequences of Work-Leisure Conflict, 12. An Examination of the Influence
of Social Support on Work-Leisure Conflict: A Case Study of Frontline Hotel
Employees, 13. An Examination of the Impact of Leisure Participation on
Knowledge-based Workers' Work Passion: The More Leisure, the More Passion?,
14. An Exploratory Study of Work-Leisure Relationships during the Covid-19
Lockdown