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Chinese Entertainment book cover

1st Edition

Chinese Entertainment

Edited By Kwok-Bun Chan Copyright 2012
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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Scholarly studies of Chinese culture, history and society, both within and outside of China, generally pay little attention to leisure, entertainment and amusement, though it has long been known that this aspect of life gives a deep understanding of the psyche and soul, and the hopes and fears, of a person. Leisure is a less coerced-upon, mandatory human conduct than work; certainly leisurely... Read more

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Biography

Kwok-Bun Chan is Founder and Chairman of the Chan Institute of Social Studies (CISS). He is former Head of Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, former Chair Professor of Sociology and Head of Department of Sociology, and Director of David C. Lam Institute of East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China. He is an expert in migration, identities, entrepreneurship, joint ventures, business networks, Chinese overseas, hybridity, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism, the family, and race and ethnic relations.

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