Being Modern in China: A Western Cultural Analysis of Modernity, Tradition and Schooling in China Today

ISBN-13: 9781509538300 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Paul Willis

Recenzje

'Written in a lucid and witty style, Paul Willis's book provides a uniquely penetrating lens to scrutinize the deeply held meanings and cultural nuances in China's relentless pursuit of modernity. A landmark contribution to China studies as well as the sociology of education.' Yunxiang Yan, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of The Individualization of Chinese Society 'Paul Willis is a wonderful guide in surveying China's jarring juxtapositions. His analysis of the ideological imbrication of communism, consumerism and Confucianism, and his close attention to the feelings of shame, stress and guilt experienced by the losers of China's new rat race, are particularly insightful.' Shehzad Nadeem, City University of New York

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction and Theoretical Groundings The Chinese Scene Part I Modernity's Symbolic Order 1 Country Bad/City Good 2 Consuming Consumerism 3 The Internet as Deus Ex Machina Part II Education's Symbolic Order 4 The GaoKao Regime 5 The Three Arrows and Experience 6 'People is the Fish' Part III The View from the Saved 7 Passing GaoKao 8 Not Passing GaoKao Part IV Closing Portraits 9 'Chen' 10 'My Own Song' 11 A Country Trip Orders of Experience Notes

O autorze

Paul Willis is an ethnographer and cultural theorist and a founding editor of Ethnography.