Vanessa L. Fong is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Her publications include Only Hope: Coming of Age under China's One-Child Policy (Stanford University Press, 2004), Women in Republican China (co-edited with Hua R. Lan, M.E. Sharpe, 1999), and articles on identity, nationalism, globalization, gender and population in China.Rachel Murphy is a research fellow in the Contemporary Chinese Studies Programme and Pembroke College, University of Oxford. Her publications include How Migrant Labour is Changing Rural China (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and articles on rural development, entrepreneurship, education, gender and population in China.

• Introduction: Chinese Experiences of Citizenship at the Margins 2. Citizenship Education in Rural China: the Dispositional and Technical Training of Cadres and Farmers 3. The Urban Chinese Educational System and the Marginality of Migrant Children 4. Choosing Between Ethnic and Chinese Citizenship: The Educational Trajectories of Tibetan Minority Children in Northwestern China 5. Legal Report: Citizenship Education through a Television Documentary 6. Civilizing Shanghai: Government Efforts to Cultivate Citizenship Among Impoverished Residents 7. Teaching ‘Responsibility’: Social Workers’ Efforts to Turn Chinese Immigrants Into Ideal Hong Kong Citizens 8. Chinese Youth Between the Margins of China and the First World

'This volume provides fresh insights into some fascinating questions. Through a wide assortment of rich case studies, its sheds new light on current understandings of changing, contested, and often conflictual conceptions of citizenship in the post-Mao period.' - China Journal'In sum, the authors not only provide detailed information about neglected but important subjects, but also leave the reader with ample food for thought about the quest for modernity and prosperity both in China, and around the world.'- China Journal