Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World - Couverture rigide

Fong, Vanessa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0804772665 ISBN 13 : 9780804772662

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2011

Synopsis

In 2004, Vanessa Fong offered a groundbreaking ethnographic exploration of the social, economic, and psychological development of children born since China's one-child policy was introduced in 1979. Her book Only Hope left readers with a picture of stressed, ambitious adolescents for whom elite status was the ultimate goal, though relatively few were in a position to achieve it. In Paradise Redefined, Fong tracks the experiences of many in her initial cohort of Chinese only-children--now college-age--as they study abroad in Australia, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, North America, and Singapore. While earning a prestigious college education in China is the main path to elite status, study abroad provides an alternative channel by offering a particularly flexible "developed world" citizenship. This flexible citizenship promises the potential for greater happiness and freedom afforded by transnational mobility, but also brings with it unexpected suffering, ambivalence, and disappointment. Paradise Redefined offers insights into China's globalization by examining the expectations and experiences that affect how various Chinese students make decisions about studying abroad, staying abroad, immigration, and returning home.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Vanessa L. Fong is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Amherst College, and author of Only Hope: Coming of Age under China's One-Child Policy (Stanford, 2004), winner of the 2005 Francis Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0804772665
• ISBN 13: 9780804772662
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 277
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible