Fengshu Liu

Modernization as Lived Experiences

Three Generations of Young Men and Women in China

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781032086026
• ISBN-10: 1032086025
• Artikelnr.: 62150784

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.