Being Modern in China: A Western Cultural Analysis of Modernity, Tradition and Schooling in China Today by Paul Willis
English | November 22nd, 2019 | ISBN: 1509538313, 1509538305 | 240 pages | EPUB | 0.36 MB
English | November 22nd, 2019 | ISBN: 1509538313, 1509538305 | 240 pages | EPUB | 0.36 MB
This book analyses modernity and tradition in China today and how they combine in striking ways in the Chinese school. Paul Willis – the leading ethnographer and author of Learning to Labour – shows how China has undergone an internal migration not only of masses of workers but also of a mental and ideological kind to a new cultural landscape of meaning characterized by the worship of the glorified city, devotion to consumerism and fixation with the smartphone and the internet.
