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Being modern in China : a Western cultural analysis of modernity, tradition and schooling in China today
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Title
Being modern in China : a Western cultural analysis of modernity, tradition and schooling in China today / Paul Willis.
ISBN
9781509538300
1509538305
9781509538317
1509538313
Publication
Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, 2020.
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
xii, 196 pages ; 23 cm
Other formats
Online version: Willis, Paul E., author. Being modern in China Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, 2019
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 26, 2019
Bibliography
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.
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