Chinese Entertainment

When seen as human behaviour, leisure and entertainment in the Chinese context cannot be separated from history, heritage, ethnicity, the community, family and kin, rituals and customs. This book examines a variety of genre of Chinese entertainment, from singing clubs, Cantonese opera and film, to Chinese rock and tourism. Though formally voluntary, Chinese entertainment, when entangled with ethnicity, heritage and history, is ironically a site of both enjoyment and struggle, both pleasure and suffering. This book was originally published as a special issue of Visual Anthropology.