Leisure in UK and China

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Leisure in UK and China

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Cultural differenceEmergence of orient and
occident

• Differences
• A lot of places in common

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LEISURE INSIDE THE HOME

• In UK
• In China

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Reasons

• more time available
• more money
• women have more spare time to do what they want .

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In China

• People have more and more choices to spend their
  leisure time ,especially for women.

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LEISURE OUTSIDE THE HOME
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Participation in art activities
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Proportion of adults who had participated in the
arts in the 4 weeks before interview GB, 2002
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Popular art activities in UK
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Situation in China

• Chinese people are thought to have limited time,
  money and even a low taste to participate in art
  activities. But with the development of economy
  and education, more and more Chinese people tend
  to participate in art activities, especially the
  rich and upper class people.

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The unique Chinese art activities
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Participation in sports
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Twelve month and four week participation rates,
GB 2002

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United kingdom(1996-1997)

• Males
• Walking
• Snooker/pool/billiards
• Cycling
• Swimming
• Soccer

• Females
• Walking
• Keep fit/yoga
• Swimming
• Cycling
• Snooker/pool/billiards

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Traditional sports of UK

• Hunting fox

• Horsemanship

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Situation in China

• National Fitness Programme
• Since its promulgation by the State Council
  in early 1995,the NFP has enhanced
  sports-consciousness among the board masses and
  brought a nationwide boom in the sports for all
  in both rural and urban areas.

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China (Summarize by myself)

• Males
• jogging
• Basketball
• Football
• Ping-pong
• Body-building

• Females
• jogging
• Body mechanics
• Yoga
• Ping-pong
• Badminton

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Traditional sports of China

• Wushu

• Qigong

• Taijiquan

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Both in UK and China

• Golf Bowling

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Participation in entertainments
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Two different cultures

• Tea shops vs.

• Pubs

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• Tea shops are everywhere in China, especially in
  cities like Chengdu and Beijing. Drinking tea and
  chatting become a kind of social culture and the
  citys feature. The tea shop is a symbol and
  representation of Chinese tea culture and it has
  a long history since Ming and Qing dynasty.

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• There are more than 60.000 pubs in the UK .Pubs
  usually have two separate rooms the public bar
  and the lounge bar. The former one is in general
  frequented more by men then women and the latter
  tends to be a more equal number of men and women.
  The former one is cheaper than the latter one.

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Gambling

• UK
• Horse racing
• Weekly football pools
• National lottery
• Bingo

• China
• Mah-jong
• Poker
• Local lottery
• National lottery

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Seeing a film
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Thank you for your time!