Chinese Citizenship

Views from the Margins
Herausgeber: Fong, Vanessa L; Murphy, Rachel

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on extensive research, this book makes a novel contribution to the study of citizenship by examining how individuals at the margins of Chinese society deal with state efforts to transform them into model citizens.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780415545860
• ISBN-10: 0415545862
• Artikelnr.: 26487604

Autorenporträt

Vanessa L. Fong is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Her publications include Only Hope: Coming of Age under China's One-Child Policy (Stanford University Press, 2004), Women in Republican China (co-edited with Hua R. Lan, M.E. Sharpe, 1999), and articles on identity, nationalism, globalization, gender and population in China. Rachel Murphy is a research fellow in the Contemporary Chinese Studies Programme and Pembroke College, University of Oxford. Her publications include How Migrant Labour is Changing Rural China (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and articles on rural development, entrepreneurship, education, gender and population in China.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Chinese Experiences of Citizenship at the Margins 2.
Citizenship Education in Rural China: the Dispositional and Technical
Training of Cadres and Farmers 3. The Urban Chinese Educational System and
the Marginality of Migrant Children 4. Choosing Between Ethnic and Chinese
Citizenship: The Educational Trajectories of Tibetan Minority Children in
Northwestern China 5. Legal Report: Citizenship Education through a
Television Documentary 6. Civilizing Shanghai: Government Efforts to
Cultivate Citizenship Among Impoverished Residents 7. Teaching
'Responsibility': Social Workers' Efforts to Turn Chinese Immigrants Into
Ideal Hong Kong Citizens 8. Chinese Youth Between the Margins of China and
the First World