Being Modern in China: A Western Cultural Analysis of Modernity, Tradition and Schooling in China Today
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 new cultural landscapes of meaning, which include worship of the glorified city, devotion to consumerism, and fixation upon the smartphone and the internet.Massive educational expansion has been a precondition for explosive economic growth and technical development, but at the same time the school provides a cultural stage for p…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5095-3830-0
- EAN: 9781509538300
- Produktnummer: 30140009
- Verlag: Polity Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B14.7 cm x D2.0 cm 454 g
- Gewicht: 454
Über den Autor
Paul Willis is an ethnographer and cultural theorist and a founding editor of Ethnography.
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