Understanding Young Chinese Backpackers: The Pursuit of Freedom and Its Risks

ISBN-13: 9781032039985 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 134 str.

Xie Jia

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Jia Xie is a distinguished research fellow in the School of Tourism Management at South China Normal University. Her research covers backpacker culture, the sociology of tourism and geographies of media and communication.