Cultivating the Confucian Individual

Canglong Wang is a lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Hull, UK. His research extensively explores the cultural, social and political implications of the revival of Confucian education in contemporary China. His work has appeared in many leading journals and book chapters. He is the author of The Rise of Confucian Citizens in China (2023).

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Confucian education revival and Chinese individualization.- Chapter 2: Individualization, subjectification, and Confucian education.- Chapter 3: Choosing a Confucian education: The rise of critical parents.- Chapter 4: Inventing an individualized approach to memorization: Debates, reforms, and contradictions.- Chapter 5: Cultivating the autonomous learner: Disciplinary power, techniques of the self, and pedagogical dilemmas,- Chapter 6: Returning to state schools? Educational re-embedding and the institutional dilemma.- Chapter 7: Continuing Confucian studies? The individual self, sage discourse, and parental authority.- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Individualization with Confucianism.