Self-development ethics and politics in China today

• Titel: Self-development ethics and politics in China today
• Titelzusatz: a keyword approach
• Mitwirkende: Hizi, Gil [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Gil Hizi
• Verlagsort: Amsterdam
• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (313 Seiten)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: China: from Revolution to Reform Series ; v.6
• Fussnoten: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
• ISBN: 978-90-485-5749-3
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• K10plus-PPN: 1915711878
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Editor Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Gil Hizi -- Part I.: Developmentalist Thinking -- 1 Luohou (Lagging Behind) and the Impetus of Self-improvement -- Marius Meinhof -- 2 Fendou (Struggle), Self-help and Chinese Modernity -- Marco Fumian -- 3 Optimizing Individual Desires: Mengxiang (Dreams) and Entrepreneurship in Chinese Universities -- Naja Morell Hjortshøj -- Part II: Transformative Frameworks -- 4 Qingxu Shifang (Emotional Release) in Psychotherapeutic Learning -- Anna Iskra -- 5 "You've Got to Have Core Muscles": Duanlian (Exercise) and the Disciplining of the Body and Self among White-collar Women -- Xinyan Peng -- 6 Jiaohua (Education for Transformation) and Self-refashioning in Chinese Individuals' Confucian Learning -- Canglong Wang -- Part III: Empowering Ingredients -- 7 To Have Nengli (Ability) When Lacking Xueli (Educational Qualifications): Striving for Success through Craftiness in Rural China -- Liisa Kohonen -- 8 The Desire to Help: Aixin (Loving Heart) and Self-development in China -- Dan Wu and Yang Zhan -- 9 Learning to Xinshang (Appreciate): Young Adults' Pursuit of Non-standardized Sensibilities -- Gil Hizi -- 10 Between Fatalism and Voluntarism: The Concept of Yuanfen (Fated Chance) and Its Role for Young Adults' Psychosocial Adjustment in Contemporary China -- Isabel Heger-Laube -- Part IV: Disillusionment -- 11 The Inescapability of Neijuan (Involution) -- Linda Qian and Barclay Bram -- 12 Tangping (Lying Flat) among Young Adults: Shameful, Courageous or Just Fleeting Resistance? -- Mieke Matthyssen -- Epilogue: The Politics of Arrested Self-development -- Jiwei Ci -- Index.