Chinese diaspora communities and leisure

The chapter contributes to leisure scholarship by extending the current understanding of Chinese diasporas’ leisure experiences and practices in the UK, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The discussion in the UK explores how the intergenerational flow of habitus of some British Chinese children's leisure experiences is shaped by a range of discourses related to Chineseness, race, gender, and social class. Chinese New Zealanders hold diverse views on masculinities, with Confucian gentry-class masculinity continuing to influence perspectives on the body and masculinity in sports. The discussion of the Australian context argues that Chinese migrants’ engagement in sports is tied to various forms of Asian cultural habitus as part of their ongoing home-making endeavour to (re)create a sense of belonging during their long-term migrant incorporation process. This chapter sheds light on the governance of multiculturalism as ‘living-together-in-difference’ in leisure, encouraging us to re-think the relationship between sports participation, migrant integration, and civic participation.