Exploring creative class mobility: Hong Kong creative workers in Shanghai and Beijing

Chow, Yiu Fai

doi:10.1080/15387216.2017.1365311

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“…presence of high-quality local food (Kim & Eves, 2012;Rita et al, 2018), nature-based attitudes (Luo & Deng, 2008), economic aspects (Dunne et al, 2007), relaxation opportunities (Konu & Laukkanen, 2010), and trendy locations (Chow, 2017;Azmil & Marzuki, 2015). Consequently, this study enriches the literature on tourism by providing a list of reasons that drive millennials towards the choice of a mountain destination.…”

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“…Additionally, economic aspects can influence tourism motivations, including as a determinant to take a trip as a break from city life (Dunne, Buckley, & Flanagan, 2007) or sometimes as a tool to define the distance that tourists tend to choose for their destinations in times of crisis (Cafiso, Cellini, & Cuccia, 2016) and relaxation experiences; the number of annual holiday trips, previous wellbeing holidays, and other factors significantly increase the likelihood of tourists being interested in relaxing holidays (Konu & Laukkanen, 2010). Finally, trendy locations can be considered a tool to stimulate tourism motivations, for example, experiencing fashionable/trendy places as a pull factor (Konu & Laukkanen, 2010) as well as also a determinant for working individuals' and students' destinations (Chow, 2017;Pedersen & Gram, 2018).…”

Section: Role Of Motivation In Choosing a Tourism Destinationmentioning

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Mountain tourism and motivation: millennial students’ seasonal preferences

Giachino

Truant

Bonadonna

2019

Current Issues in Tourism

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This study aimed to identify the motivations that lead a particular sub-group of the millennial generation, namely, university students, to choose mountain areas as tourism destinations both in winter and summer. Through a focus group and a questionnaire survey targeting Italian millennial students (n = 2,292), we first identified the main motivations that drive this choice. Second, we identified the level of importance for each motivation during both seasons. The findings revealed that millennials are guided by six main motivations in choosing mountain areas as travel destinations, each of which play different roles according to the considered season. The only exception is represented by the category of food and beverage, which is not influenced by seasonality. The results contribute to the literature on tourism and millennials, giving insight on the motivations that drive millennials' choices. Moreover, the results are relevant from a managerial point of view by providing important indications to managers and policy makers on the determinants of millennials' decisions.

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Mountain tourism and motivation: millennial students’ seasonal preferences

Giachino

Truant

Bonadonna

2019

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…Embedded in the tradition of qualitative research, our findings do not claim to be representative or conclusive; it does not aim at offering 'grand narratives or common patterns of large populations' (Chow, 2019, p. 23). Instead, it is essentially exploratory in nature, choosing to recuperate their experiences and tease out common threads for future research possibilities (Chow, 2017).…”

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No longer aspirational: A case study of young creative workers in Hong Kong who quit

Wong¹,

Chow²

2020

Global Media and China

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While many young creative workers are braving precaritization presumably with the drive of aspiration, this article focuses on the other end of their career path: disillusionment. Informed by the experiences of five self-proclaimed wenyi qingnian – loosely translated as cultural youth – in Hong Kong, this article tracks their aspirations which kept them hoping and going till they were disillusioned and decided to quit. Drawing together two lines of research – on precarity and on failure – our study fills in a gap of the scholarship on creative work and workers that is dominated by concerns with precarity and related abuses. We attend not only to the abuse, exploitation and precarity of creative work, but to a more open understanding of how and why young creative practitioners leave. We do so with an unusual deployment of longitudinal inquiry that does not only concern itself with struggles of creative workers but also with the termination of such struggles. We observe four dimensions of failure: their increasingly precarious way of life; their disillusionment with creativity; the urgency posed by their ‘ageing’; and the specific local political situation. As transpired, only one factor is immediately related to precarity. This article argues to include ‘failure’ as a significant phase of creative work, that warrants further investigation and may open up more understanding on precarity, or in general, creative work and workers. While precarity is dominantly defined in economic and market-related terms – with good reasons – we see the need to loosen it up to acknowledge more aspects of precarity and experiences of creative work. This article is part of the Special Issue Creative Labour in East Asia.

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“…Professionals in the cultural sectors, especially less established ones, have become a 'creative precariat', suffering precarious working conditions and facing problems such as short-term contracts, unequal earnings and a lack of unions (Curtin and Sanson 2016; Hesmondhalgh and Baker 2011). In his study of Hong Kong cultural workers in China, Yiu Fai Chow (2017) suggests that the mobility of creative labour from Hong Kong to the Chinese Mainland is quite often contingent in the sense that these workers' decisions to move are often hasty due to the precarious conditions in the cultural sector. McRobbie also points out that the highly mobile creative workplace engenders a 'time-space stretch mechanism .…”

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(Un-)becoming Chinese creatives: transnational mobility of creative labour in a ‘global’ Beijing

Lin

2019

Mobilities

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Drawing on qualitative research conducted on transnational creative workers in Beijing, this article shows how the vibrant interaction between global cultural industries and the local Chinese economy propels transnational labour mobility and affects the subjectification of transnational creative workers. Having come to China to enhance their careers, these professionals have been incorporated into the Chinese creative workforce, contributing to the Party State's aspiration to use creativity as a growth engine for the economy and as a form of soft power. In terms of these workers' everyday experience, however, China's aspiration to 'foreign creativity' does not necessarily guarantee a privileged life. The State's restrictions on migration and the insecure working circumstances within the Chinese creative workplace discourage these transnationals from fully integrating in Chinese society and the Chinese labour market. At the same time, this research shows that the precarious lives led by transnational creative workers in Beijing are also productive and generate the conditions for a situated cosmopolitan subjectivity. Such a cosmopolitan subjectivity fosters respect for cultural difference and relations of mutual understanding and care among both international and local subjects.

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Exploring creative class mobility: Hong Kong creative workers in Shanghai and Beijing

Cited by 16 publications

References 35 publications

Mountain tourism and motivation: millennial students’ seasonal preferences

Mountain tourism and motivation: millennial students’ seasonal preferences

No longer aspirational: A case study of young creative workers in Hong Kong who quit

(Un-)becoming Chinese creatives: transnational mobility of creative labour in a ‘global’ Beijing

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