Full Description
Drawing on a wide variety of Chinese-language publications and in-depth interviews with high-school students, Mobilising China's One-Child Generation provides systematic evidence of the spread of martial logic and techniques into Chinese schools. The book explores how China has implemented Patriotic Education and National Defence Education programmes to foster love for the nation and the Party-state, mobilise the population to fight modern wars in the information age, and encourage youth to join the army. It studies how these programmes present the tropes of war and the military to youth, and how they are related to shifting constructions of gender and the national collectivity. It also documents students' varied perceptions and notably contestations of this militarised ethos, complicating our understanding of popular nationalism and militarisation processes in this authoritarian global power.
Contents
Introduction: Nationalism, Militarization, and Youth Education in China
The Militarization of Youth Education in Modern China
War and Peace in China's Contemporary History Textbooks
'Don't Get Soft': Youth Military Training in Contemporary China
Military Entertainment, Nationalism, and the Restoration of Chinese Masculinity
'If Peace is Our Goal, Why Use War to Attain It?' Education, Media, and Chinese Youth Notions of Armed Conflict
'You Can Serve the Country in More than One Way': Chinese Youth Views of the PLA and Military Service
Conclusion: Rethinking the militarization of Chinese Youth in the Xi Era
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