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Play and power in Chinese nightlife spaces

China: An International Journal, 2008

“Nightlife” has reemerged in China since the “opening and reform policies” of 1978. Genres of contemporary Chinese nightlife include bars, dance clubs, karaoke clubs and saunas, all of which have influenced by transnational flows of investments, ideas and people. Nightlife is an important space for the study of Chinese social stratification and the study of sexual subcultures in Chinese cities. Nightlife is thus an area in which we can study the transnational processes of cultural change in China, while examining the possibilities of individual agency, resistance and creativity within these organizing structures.

A geographical perspective on the formation of urban nightlife landscape

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

The significance of nightlife and the nighttime economy has witnessed a growing prominence in the realm of urban development. The urban nightlife landscape, serving as the backdrop for urban nighttime pursuits, plays a significant role in determining nighttime consumption patterns and overall nocturnal experiences. However, there is a significant lacuna in the existing scholarship on the fundamental reasoning behind the formation of nightlife landscapes, with the primary analytical focus in earlier studies on daytime landscapes. Drawing upon a spatiotemporal geography perspective, this paper aims to uncover the underlying logic behind the various forms of urban nightlife landscapes. It seeks to identify the key factors that shape these landscapes, thus unveiling their formation mechanisms, overall typology and aesthetic characteristics. Based on the cases of four bar streets in Guangzhou, China, this study argues that the historical heritage and location advantages give rise to two ...

Into the Night-Time Economy: Work, Leisure, Urbanity and the Creative Industries

2000

The goal of this paper is to investigate the shape and challenges of urban and economic development. We continue the analysis of Paul Chatterton and Robert Hollands in Urban Nightscapes , to reveal the contradictions between the production, regulation and consumption of nightlife. Their research discussed nocturnal urban history as, "a story of corporate power, greed, domination and marginalization, not

Global Nightscapes in Shanghai as Ethnosexual Contact Zones

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2011

Beginning in the 1980s, bars and dance clubs re-emerged as important zones of intercultural interaction within Shanghai, particularly for expatriates with otherwise little casual social contact with Chinese citizens. Based on interviews with bar- and clubowners and customers, and on field-notes from participant observation over the last 15 years, this historical ethnography describes the changing organisation of the ethnosexual contact zone of the nightlife. Nightlife is a context in which casual interactions among foreign travellers, sojourners and settlers and the increasingly mobile People's Republic of China (PRC) citizens are common and relatively spontaneous. Despite the complexities of these interactions, the ethnographic evidence here points to the continued relevance of postcolonial racial categories in which a struggle for gendered status within the nightscape is described as a competition between a dominant but declining Global Whiteness and a rising Global Chinese racial identity. This mapping of a fractious global nightscape challenges the idea of a seamless transnational capitalist class, and instead points to racial and gendered sexual competition as an important feature of the leisure culture of transnational mobile elites.

Night tourism: A Strategic or Tokenistic Measure in Urban Management?

Tourism of Culture, 2022

, +989128907359 Viewpoint Abstract| The expansion of cities and the change in the urbanization system have led to the increased activity duration in cities and the continuation of part of daytime activities during the night. In this sense, the night is an opportunity to redefine the urban landscape in a period, and this definition is different from urban society and urban tourism. The term "night tourism" refers to any kind of tourism that occurs between sunset and sunrise. Therefore, this type of tourism is raised by the time when tourism activities are carried out and their spatial limits, not by the nature of these activities and their motivations.Despite the development of the "Master Nightscape Plan" in official documents and academic literature, the term "night tourism" has not yet been correctly defined, and the night tourism classification has not been analyzed in terms of the type of audience, the selection of a suitable place, and the type of activity carried out during the night. In many cities of the world, night tourism has become the main element of tourism competitiveness in the city and makes an essential economic contribution to the urban economy. The existing studies in the master nightscape plan focus on decorative actions and specific spaces. However, there is no approach to the different timings making the night, and no realistic interpretation of night tourism and its impacts. Keywords| Urban nightscape, Urban night tourism, Urban lighting, Urban management.

Night Time Social Behaviour in Urban Outdoor Spaces of Shah Alam

The changes in lifestyle, social institutions and economic activities contribute towards city growth has reduced the urban community activities in outdoor spaces. In spite of day time leisure, urban communities prefer to carry out their leisure activities after the sun has set. Based on expert interviews; the meaning of night city, the significance of night city and the suitability of Shah Alam as night city based on several research domains are discussed. It is found that, Shah Alam has the potential to become a night city oriented to the families and urban community.