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Educating the Chinese Individual: Life in a Rural Boarding School
Mette Halskov Hansen
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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JFSF; JHMC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 222 x 16. Weight in Grams: 302.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295994093
SKU
V9780295994093
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About Mette Halskov Hansen
Mette Halskov Hansen is professor of China studies at the University of Oslo. She is the author of Lessons in Being Chinese: Minority Education and Ethnic Identity in Southwest China and coeditor of iChina: The Rise of the Individual in Modern Chinese Society.
Reviews for Educating the Chinese Individual: Life in a Rural Boarding School
[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
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Andrew B. Kipnis
The China Journal
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