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Author:
Willis, Paul E. author.
Title:
Being modern in China : a Western cultural analysis of modernity, tradition and schooling in China today / Paul Willis.
Publisher:
Polity Press,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
xii, 196 pages ; 23 cm
Subject:
China--Civilization--21st century.
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--China.
Information technology--Social aspects--China.
Education--Social aspects--China.
Educational change--China.
Gaokao (Educational test)
Migration, Internal--Social aspects--China.
Urbanization--China.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Chinese scene -- Modernity's symbolic order -- Country bad/city good -- Consuming consumerism -- The Internet as deus ex machina -- Education's symbolic order -- The Gaokao regime -- The three arrows and experience -- "People is the fish" -- The view from the saved -- Passing Gaokao -- Not passing Gaokao -- Closing portraits -- "Chen" -- "My own song" -- A country trip -- Orders of experience.
ISBN:
1509538313
9781509538317
1509538305
9781509538300
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1088189769
LCCN:
2019002656
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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