TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bram,Barclay
AU  - Ci,Jiwei
AU  - Fumian,Marco
AU  - Heger-Laube,Isabel
AU  - Hizi,Gil
AU  - Hjortshøj,Naja Morell
AU  - Iskra,Anna
AU  - Kohonen,Liisa
AU  - Matthyssen,Mieke
AU  - Meinhof,Marius
AU  - Peng,Xinyan
AU  - Qian,Linda
AU  - Wang,Canglong
AU  - Wu,Dan
AU  - Zhan,Yang
TI  - Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today: A Keyword Approach 
T2  - China: From Revolution to Reform
SN  - 9789048557493
AV  - DS779.23 .S45 2024
U1  - 951.06 23/eng/20240821
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - China
KW  - Self-actualization (Psychology)
KW  - AUP Wetenschappelijk
KW  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - East Asia and North East Asia
KW  - Sociology and Social History
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Contemporary China, self-development, self-help, Chinese economy, education
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Contributors --; Editor Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Part I. Developmentalist Thinking --; 1 Luohou (Lagging Behind) and the Impetus of Self-improvement --; 2 Fendou (Struggle), Self-help and Chinese Modernity --; 3 Optimizing Individual Desires : Mengxiang (Dreams) and Entrepreneurship in Chinese Universities --; Part II Transformative Frameworks --; 4 Qingxu Shifang (Emotional Release) in Psychotherapeutic Learning --; 5 “You’ve Got to Have Core Muscles” : Duanlian (Exercise) and the Disciplining of the Body and Self among White-collar Women --; 6 Jiaohua (Education for Transformation) and Self-refashioning in Chinese Individuals’ Confucian Learning --; Part III Empowering Ingredients --; 7 To Have Nengli (Ability) When Lacking Xueli (Educational Qualifications): Striving for Success through Craftiness in Rural China --; 8 The Desire to Help: Aixin (Loving Heart) and Self-development in China --; 9 Learning to Xinshang (Appreciate): Young Adults’ Pursuit of Nonstandardized Sensibilities --; 10 Between Fatalism and Voluntarism: The Concept of Yuanfen (Fated Chance) and Its Role for Young Adults’ Psychosocial Adjustment in Contemporary China --; Part IV Disillusionment --; 11 The Inescapability of Neijuan (Involution) --; 12 Tangping (Lying Flat) among Young Adults : Shameful, Courageous or Just Fleeting Resistance? --; Epilogue: The Politics of Arrested Selfdevelopment --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This volume takes readers on a journey into a central aspect of life in China, so-called “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 and thus bring about a better future. Contributors to this volume, interdisciplinary sinologists, draw on materials from practices in education, labor, and self-help as they spotlight “keywords” by which individuals make sense of their self-development journeys – including new forms of resistance to social norms. Rather than simply classify self-development by different activities or groups, the chapters map together ethical features that cut across Chinese society. Contributors explore the nuanced and ambivalent attitudes towards self-development of individuals navigating various requirements and pursuing more complete forms of existence. In so doing, they offer a snapshot of China that intersects with timely global concerns
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048557493?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048557493
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048557493/original
ER  -