Educating the Chinese Individual

Life in a Rural Boarding School

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Av Mette Halskov Hansen

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In twenty-first-century China, socialist educational traditions have given way to practices that increasingly emphasize the individual. This volume investigates that trend, drawing on Hansen's fieldwork in a rural high school in Zhejiang where students, teachers, and officials of different generations, genders, and social backgrounds form what is essentially a miniature version of Chinese society. Hansen paints a complex picture of the emerging "neosocialist" educational system and shows how individualization of students both challenges and reinforces state control of society.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-01-01
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEducating the Chinese Individual
Antal sidor240
FörlagUniversity of Washington Press
ISBN9780295994086

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Chinese Education and Processes of Individualization1. Discipline and Agency: Quests for Individual Space 2. Text and Truth: Visions of the Learned Person and Good Citizen 3. Hierarchy and Democracy: Controlled Rise of the Individual 4. Motivation and Examination: The Making and Breaking of the Individual 5. Dreams and Dedications: Teachers' Views and the Construction of a Generation Gap Conclusion: Authoritarian Individualization NotesGlossary of Chinese Names and Terms Bibliography Index

"Educating the Chinese Individual is an ethnographically rich and stimulating study. It enriches our knowledge about a relatively under-studied group—rural youth and young teachers—in a marginal setting. It challenges some common assumptions of the changing landscape of school education and everyday cultural practice of the younger generations in post-socialist China. . . . This book will attract a wide readership in educational studies but will also appeal to audiences in sociology and anthropology who are interested in social change and youth culture in contemporary China."- Xuan Dong (The China Quarterly) "[E]xcellent. . . . [T]his ethnography is a fine depiction of a slice of life in China today. The important issues it handles show the value of having more ethnographies of Chinese secondary schools, including studies of first-tier, vocational, and urban high schools from many parts of the country."- Andrew B. Kipnis (The China Journal)