ISBN:
9788776945312
,
8776945316
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xx, 275 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
NIAS studies in Asian topics 45
Parallel Title:
Print version IChina
DDC:
302.50951
Keywords:
Social change China
;
Individualism China
;
Social change
;
Individualism
;
Social change
;
Individualism
;
Social change
;
Social conditions
;
Individualism
;
PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology
;
China Social conditions
;
2000-
;
China
;
China Social conditions 2000-
;
China Social conditions 2000-
;
China
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
There is a growing individualization of China with changing perceptions of the individual and rising expectations for individual freedom, choice and individuality. How this process evolves in a country lacking two of the defining characteristics of European individualization is a question this volume explores
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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Foreword:Varieties of individualization
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Introduction:Conflicting images of the individual and contested process of individualization
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Idealizing individual choice: work, love and family in the eyes of young, rural Chinese
,
He is he and I am I: individual and collective among China's elderly
,
Individualization and the political agency of private business people in China
,
A collective of their own: young volunteers at the fringes of the party realm
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Between self and community: the individual in contemporary Chinese literature
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Individual self-discipline and collective freedom in the minds of Chinese intellectuals
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'Friendly pressure': law and the individual in modern China
,
Collective symbols and individual options: life on a state farm for returned overseas Chinese after decollectivization
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