Mette Halskov Hansen is professor of China studies at the University of Oslo. She is the author of Lessons in Being Chinese: Minority Education and Ethnic Identity in Southwest China and coeditor of iChina: The Rise of the Individual in Modern Chinese Society.

Résumé
Investigates that trend, drawing on fieldwork in a rural high school in Zhejiang where students, teachers, and officials of different generations, genders, and social backgrounds form what is essentially a miniature version of Chinese society.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Chinese Education and Processes of Individualization

Discipline and Agency: Quests for Individual Space
Text and Truth: Visions of the Learned Person and Good Citizen
Hierarchy and Democracy: Controlled Rise of the Individual
Motivation and Examination: The Making and Breaking of the Individual
Dreams and Dedications: Teachers' Views and the Construction of a Generation Gap

Conclusion: Authoritarian Individualization

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Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms

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