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  • Reconsidering Chinese Citizenship

    Cultural Roots and Cultural Reach

    Edited by Canglong Wang, Zhenzhou Zhao, Zhonghua Guo ...
    This book reconsiders the concept of Chinese citizenship through the lens of cultural traditions and their deep historical roots. It challenges the state’s monolithic interpretation of culture, exploring how cultural practices influence citizenship in modern China.The contributors to this volume examine how various actors, from government forces to grassroots activists, engage in culture-informed ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Cultivating the Confucian Individual

    The Confucian Education Revival in China

    by Canglong Wang ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the complexities of cultivating ‘Confucian individuals’ through classics study in contemporary China by drawing on the individualization thesis and its implications for the Confucian education revival. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at a Confucian classical school, three topics are investigated: parents’ narratives and actions related to ‘dis-embedding’ their children ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Rise of Confucian Citizens in China

    Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Explorations

    by Canglong Wang ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This book explores the relationship between Confucianism and citizenship and the rise of Confucian citizens in contemporary China.Combining theoretical and empirical approaches to the topic, the book constructs new frameworks to examine the nuances and complexities of Confucianism and citizenship, exploring the process of citizen-making through Confucian education. By re-evaluating the concept of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Theorizing Chinese Citizenship

    by Zhonghua Guo, Taihui Guo, Thomas Janoski, Kerry Kennedy, Hui Li, Samantha A. Vortherms, Canglong Wang, Ying Xia, Bin Xiao0, Yihan Xiong1, Yi Lin2, Zhenzhou Zhao3, Malgorzata Jakimów4, Bing Guan5 ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    This volume theorizes the concept of citizenship in contemporary China by probing into the formation of Chinese citizenship and synthesizing the practices of citizenship by different social groups. The first section, “Imagining Chinese Citizenship,” analyses how Chinese citizenship was first imagined by means of translation and education at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Chinese ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

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  • Education in China

    Educational History, Models, and Initiatives

    by Qiang Zha, Ruth Hayhoe, Heidi Ross ...
    Series series Berkshire Essentials
    Chinese students are known worldwide for their accomplishment and ambition, and education is profoundly valued in China. But these facts do not tell the whole story. Intellectuals were persecuted during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) and only recently has a college education been accessible to a majority of Chinese high school graduates. Things are changing rapidly. China’s higher-education ... Read more

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  • Minority Education in China

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    This edited volume brings together essays by leading experts exploring different aspects of ethnic minority education in China: among these are the challenges associated with bilingual and trilingual education in Xinjiang and Tibet; Han Chinese reactions to preferential minority education; the role of inland boarding schools for minority students, and the mediation of religion and culture in ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Cultural Economy of Falun Gong in China

    A Rhetorical Perspective

    by Xiao Ming ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    A firsthand account of the power of rhetoric to establish and challenge cultural controls in modern ChinaEmerging in China in the early 1990s, Falun Gong is viewed by its supporters as a folk movement promoting the benefits of good health and moral cultivation. To the Chinese establishment, however, it is a dissident religious cult threatening political orthodoxy and national stability. The author ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Citizenship and Education in Contemporary China

    Contexts, Perspectives, and Understandings

    Edited by Yeow-Tong Chia, Zhenzhou Zhao ...
    Series series Education and Society in China
    A key objective of education in China is to cultivate one's moral values, with the ultimate objective of becoming fully human (做人). Unlike the "West", which regards moral cultivation as related to but separate from citizenship cultivation, East Asia (including China) views moral and citizenship cultivation as synonymous. The essays in this book offer various perspectives on and understandings of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia

    by Doh Chull Shin ...
    For decades, scholars and politicians have vigorously debated whether Confucianism is compatible with democracy, yet little is known about how it affects the process of democratization in East Asia. In this book, Doh Chull Shin examines the prevalence of core Confucian legacies and their impacts on civic and political orientations in six Confucian countries: China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • John Dewey, Liang Shuming, and China's Education Reform

    Cultivating Individuality

    by Huajun Zhang ...
    This book explores the central question of how to cultivate a continued sense of self in the radically changing Chinese society, a question that is highly related to the current ongoing educational reform. If education cannot respond to the problem of students’ disconnection from the changing society, learning cannot truly happen in school and the reform will fail. Zhang suggests a philosophy of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Marriage in Contemporary Japan

    by Yoko Tokuhiro ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    The phenomenon of bankonka – ‘postponement of marriage’ – is increasingly reported in contemporary Japanese media, clearly illustrating the changing patterns of modern lifestyles and attitudes towards marriage, personal obligation and ambition. This is the first book in recent years to explore the contemporary state of marriage in Japanese society. Setting out the different perceptions and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Confucian Democracy in East Asia

    Theory and Practice

    by Sungmoon Kim ...
    This book explores a mode of democracy that is culturally relevant and socially practicable in the contemporary pluralistic context of historically Confucian East Asian societies, by critically engaging with the two most dominant theories of Confucian democracy - Confucian communitarianism and meritocratic elitism. The book constructs a mode of public reason (and reasoning) that is morally ... Read more

    $35.29 USD