Modernization as Lived Experiences: Three Generations of Young Men and Women in China

ISBN-13: 9781032086026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 242 str.

Fengshu Liu

Opis

This book examines, in a culturally and contextually sensitive way, the particularity of what it means to be young in post-Mao China undergoing rapid and dramatic transformation by comparing childhood and youth experiences over three generations.

Spis treści

1 Introduction. 2 Modernization and social change. 3 The rise of the ‘priceless’ Chinese child: childhood in three generations. 4 Daxue as the norm: the rise of the Chinese ‘schooled society’ over three generations. 5 The aspiring male individual: the rise of chenggong as a new hegemonic masculine ideal. 6 The aspiring female individual: ‘wanting to have it all’ as a new female ideal. 7 An expressive turn with a Chinese twist: young people’s other-sex relations in three generations. Conclusion: the maximization desire: living modernization the Chinese way.

O autorze

Fengshu Liu is Professor of Education at the University of Oslo. Her research cuts across childhood and youth studies, comparative and international education, and sociology of education (e.g., gender, generation, family and modernization). Her earlier book is titled Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self.