Testing the Margins of Leisure - Case Studies on China, Japan, and Indonesia

This volume offers eight studies on different historical and present-day aspects of leisure in Asia. It critically engages with the predominant Eurocentric focus of leisure studies, bringing into the discussion a number of crucial issues such as the role of leisure as a transcultural contact zone. The volume engages with a field that has been rapidly growing due to the heightened role of leisure activities in defining a person's identity, the fading of the work/leisure divide in the post-industrial age, and the increasing economic importance of leisure pursuits such as tourism. Bringing Asia into the discussion contributes in resetting the study of leisure into a truly global context.

Product details

• Assisted by: Eugenio Menegon (Editor), Rudolf G. Wagner (Editor), Robert P. Weller (Editor), Catherine V. Yeh (Editor)
• Publisher: Heidelberg University Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2020
• EAN: 9783947732746
• ISBN: 978-3-947732-74-6
• No. of pages: 316
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 539 g
• Illustrations: 36 Farbabb.
• Series: Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality; Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality 6
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous