Leisure Life and Space of Contemporary Hangzhou. From 1980 to 2014
Abstract
Hangzhou is an outstanding city for its widely recognized leisure development. This paper attempts to give a brief introduction of leisure life in contemporary Hangzhou, focusing on the shifts in many aspects through three decades, when enormous economic, social, and culture changes have taken place in China. Are there any newly emerged contents of leisure life associated with those rapid transformations? Moreover, what are the notable changes of leisure life in the spatial dimension? Collecting 58 senior citizens’ personal memory of their leisure life in Hangzhou by in-depth interviews, these questions are answered and the results are visualized on maps.
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