Free Labour and Contemporary Leisure Forms in China

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This study distinguished passive leisure, defined as rest for labor recovery, from positive leisure, defined as free labor for a new lifestyle. It observed that contemporary Chinese leisure remains largely passive, with activities such as tourism, healthcare, and dancing failing to constitute independent lifestyles, and phone browsing demonstrating fragmentation and passivity. In contrast, emerging positive leisure forms in society include craft workshops, urban farming, social media groups, and academic salons.