This volume takes readers on a journey into a central aspect of life in China, "self-development. Whether prompted by the cultural values of educational success, capitalist competition for wealth, or the Chinese Communist Party's prescriptions for "good" citizenship, few people in China are immune to the impetus to "improve" themselves.
This volume takes readers on a journey into a central aspect of life in China, "self-development. Whether prompted by the cultural values of educational success, capitalist competition for wealth, or the Chinese Communist Party's prescriptions for "good" citizenship, few people in China are immune to the impetus to "improve" themselves.
Gil Hizi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
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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.
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.
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