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Educating the Chinese Individual: Life in a Rural Boarding School - Softcover

Hansen, Mette Halskov

 
9780295994093: Educating the Chinese Individual: Life in a Rural Boarding School
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0295994096 ISBN 13: 9780295994093
Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2016

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
University of Washington Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0295994096
ISBN 13 
9780295994093
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
240