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Navigating the Aspirational City

Urban Educational Culture and the Revolutionary Path to Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvLorin G. Yochim,Lorin G. Yochim,Lorin Yochim,Lorin G Yochim

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The re-emergence of China as a world power promises to be the signal economic, political, cultural, and social development of the 21st century. In the face of its rise, fine grained accounts of the shape and texture of this new China are both timely and necessary.Navigating the Aspirational City forwards a theory of contemporary Chinese urban educational culture that focusses on the influence of dominant conceptions of “the good citizen” and the material environment upon parents as they pursue their childrearing projects. The book provides a description of the beliefs and practices of urban Chinese parents as they “educate” their children. These beliefs and practices are placed in relation to a historical chain of ideas about how to best educate children, as well as within the urban context in which they are produced and reproduced, renovated, and transformed.Beginning with a history of revolutionary “orders of worth” culminating in the “aspirational cité,” the book details the shifting standards that define the “human capital” conditions of possibility of a developed modern economy. It goes on to describe a set of policies and practices known as san nian da bianyang by which the whole of one particular city, Shijiazhuang, has been demolished, re-built, and re-ordered. Contemporary China is, the author contends, no less revolutionary than Mao’s, noting that parents’ beliefs and practices articulate with the present ideational and material context to produce what appears, at times, to be radical transformation and, at others, remarkable stability.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-10-18
Mått155 x 235 x 10 mm
Vikt297 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpotlight on China
Antal sidor174
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004381247

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PrefaceList of Figures and TablesChapter 1: Scoping Chinese Educational CultureResearch Problem & QuestionsThird-Tier City, First World ProblemsAn Urban Educational Culture of Familial AspirationEducation, Family, City, CultureConceptualizing Educational CultureOrganization of the BookChapter 2: The Heavy Burden of RevolutionJianfu: Lightening the Heavy BurdenJianfu in the Early Revolutionary PeriodJianfu in the Great Proletarian Cultural RevolutionChapter 3: The “Reform” Era & the Emergence of the Aspirational CitéThe Emergence of the Aspirational CitéJianfu: A Flexible PolicyChapter 4: Building an Aspirational CityTangible Effects of RenovationEducational Institutions for the Aspirational CityChapter 5: Educating Children in the Aspirational CityThe ParentsBeliefs and Activities of Middle-Class Urban ParentsChapter 6: Making One’s Way through the Field of Urban Educational CultureNegotiating & Navigating: The Logic of China’s Urban Educational CultureJianfu ReconsideredNegotiating & Navigating Educational CultureThe Aspirational Family?Chapter 7: Urban Educational Culture RevisitedRenovation and Desire in 2017Appendix A: Methodological Preliminaries and SpecificationsAppendix B: Documents Used in Corpus AnalysisReferencesIndex

“This book makes an important contribution to discussions of educational, social, cultural and economic developments in China. Dr. Yochim is a superb writer and extraordinary scholar who brings advanced understandings grounded in his own intimate engagements with China, his prowess with Chinese culture and language, ethnographic research skills and his ability to apply various lenses (especially Bourdieu, Archer & Harvey) to developments in China over the last 50 years.” – Robert Tierney, University of British Columbia / Beijing Normal University / The University of Sydney“This book is a fascinating read, and illuminates many aspects of my life in China that I was only partially aware of. Dr. Yochim has a unique insight into cultural matters of parenting in China, and he can help outsiders to have a balanced view of what are often contentious issues.” – David Turner, Beijing Normal University