Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Chinese Education and Processes of Individualization
1. 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
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms
Bibliography
Index
