Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 363 g
Reihe: Spotlight on China
Urban Educational Culture and the Revolutionary Path to Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 363 g
Reihe: Spotlight on China
ISBN: 978-90-04-38125-4
Verlag: Brill
The re-emergence of China as a world power promises to be the signal economic, political, cultural, and social development of the 21st century. In the face of its rise, fine grained accounts of the shape and texture of this new China are both timely and necessary.
Navigating the Aspirational City forwards a theory of contemporary Chinese urban educational culture that focusses on the influence of dominant conceptions of “the good citizen” and the material environment upon parents as they pursue their childrearing projects. The book provides a description of the beliefs and practices of urban Chinese parents as they “educate” their children. These beliefs and practices are placed in relation to a historical chain of ideas about how to best educate children, as well as within the urban context in which they are produced and reproduced, renovated, and transformed.
Beginning with a history of revolutionary “orders of worth” culminating in the “aspirational cité,” the book details the shifting standards that define the “human capital” conditions of possibility of a developed modern economy. It goes on to describe a set of policies and practices known as san nian da bianyang by which the whole of one particular city, Shijiazhuang, has been demolished, re-built, and re-ordered. Contemporary China is, the author contends, no less revolutionary than Mao’s, noting that parents’ beliefs and practices articulate with the present ideational and material context to produce what appears, at times, to be radical transformation and, at others, remarkable stability.
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Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Chapter 1: Scoping Chinese Educational Culture
Research Problem & Questions
Third-Tier City, First World Problems
An Urban Educational Culture of Familial Aspiration
Education, Family, City, Culture
Conceptualizing Educational Culture
Organization of the Book
Chapter 2: The Heavy Burden of Revolution
Jianfu: Lightening the Heavy Burden
Jianfu in the Early Revolutionary Period
Jianfu in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Chapter 3: The “Reform” Era & the Emergence of the Aspirational Cité
The Emergence of the Aspirational Cité
Jianfu: A Flexible Policy
Chapter 4: Building an Aspirational City
Tangible Effects of Renovation
Educational Institutions for the Aspirational City
Chapter 5: Educating Children in the Aspirational City
The Parents
Beliefs and Activities of Middle-Class Urban Parents
Chapter 6: Making One’s Way through the Field of Urban Educational Culture
Negotiating & Navigating: The Logic of China’s Urban Educational Culture
Jianfu Reconsidered
Negotiating & Navigating Educational Culture
The Aspirational Family?
Chapter 7: Urban Educational Culture Revisited
Renovation and Desire in 2017
Appendix A: Methodological Preliminaries and Specifications
Appendix B: Documents Used in Corpus Analysis
References
Index
