Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-399-2 (ISBN)
Gil Hizi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Goethe University Frankfurt
Contributors
Editor Acknowledgements
Introduction by Gil Hizi
Part I: Developmentalist Thinking
1. Luohou (lagging-behind) and the impetus of self-improvement by Marius Meinhof
2. Fendou (struggle), self-help and Chinese modernity by Marco Fumian
3. Optimizing Individual Desires: Mengxiang (dreams) and entrepreneurship in Chinese Universities by Naja Morell Hjortshøj
Part II: Transformative Frameworks
4. Qingxu shifang (emotional release) in psychotherapeutic learning by Anna Iskra
5. ’You've Got to Have Core Muscles’: Duanlian (exercise) and the disciplining of body and self among white-collar women by Xinyan Peng
6. Jiaohua (education for transformation) and self-refashioning in Chinese individuals’ Confucian learning by Canglong Wang
Part III: Empowering Ingredients
7. To have nengli (ability) when lacking xueli (educational knowledge): Striving for success through craftiness in rural China by Liisa Kohonen
8. The Desire to Help: Aixin (loving heart) and self-development in China by Dan Wu and Yang Zhan
9. Learning to xinshang (appreciate): Young adults’ pursuit of non-standardized sensibilities by Gil Hizi
10. Between Fatalism and Voluntarism: The Concept of yuanfen (Fated Chance) and its Role for Young Adults' Psychosocial Adjustment in Contemporary China by Isabel Heger-Laube
Part IV: Disillusionment
11. The inescapability of neijuan (involution) by Linda Qian and Barclay Bram
12. Tangping (lying flat) among young adults: Shameful, courageous, or just fleeting resistance? by Mieke Matthyssen
13. Epilogue: The politics of arrested self-development by Jiwei Ci
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 22.08.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | China: From Revolution to Reform |
Zusatzinfo | 1 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | Amsterdam |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 94-6372-399-4 / 9463723994 |
ISBN-13 | 978-94-6372-399-2 / 9789463723992 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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