Being Modern in China: A Western Cultural Analysis of Modernity, Tradition and Schooling in China Today

by Paul Willis

Book Overview

This book analyses modernity and tradition in China today and how they combine in striking ways in the Chinese school. Paul Willis - the leading ethnographer and author of Learning to Labour - shows how China has undergone an internal migration not only of masses of workers but also of a mental and ideological kind to a new cultural landscape of meaning characterized by the worship of the glorified city, devotion to consumerism and fixation with the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509538305
• ISBN13: 9781509538300
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.0"