内容简介

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 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 "neo-socialist" educational system and shows how individualization of students both challenges and reinforces state control of society.

作品目录

Intro

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