Being modern in China : a Western cultural analysis of modernity, tradition and schooling in China today /
Willis, Paul E.author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index.
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" -- Tomb sweeping day -- Orders of experience.
Consumption (Economics)
Information technology
Education
Educational change
Gaokao (Educational test)
Migration, Internal
Urbanization
Being modern in China