Understanding Young Chinese Backpackers

The Pursuit of Freedom and Its Risks

Auteurs

• Jia Xie

Paramètres

• 134 pages
• 5 heures de lecture

• Littérature compatriotique et d'exil
• Loisirs et maison
• Sciences sociales

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This volume investigates contemporary young Chinese backpackers' views on backpacking culture and backpackers. The author discovers that the backpackers begin their journey due to a desire to pursue freedom, but are driven home because of the risks of carrying out a freewheeling lifestyle within an individualised society. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction. 2. Conceptualisation 3. Methodology. 4. Pursuing freedom: Backpackers in the eyes of their contemporaries. 5. Be a backpacker, be independent. 6 Alternative seeker: Backpacking as a way of life. 7. A new classification of the backpacker. 8. Understanding young Chinese backpackers: The pursuit of freedom and its risks

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• Année de publication: 2021
• Reliure: (rigide)