Educating the Chinese Individual: Life in a Rural Boarding School

by Mette Halskov Hansen

Book Overview

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 Hansen's 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 "neosocialist" educational system and shows how individualization of students both challenges and reinforces state control of society.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295994096
• ISBN13: 9780295994093
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher