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

Fong, Vanessa

 
9780804772679: Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World
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ISBN 10 : 0804772673 ISBN 13 : 9780804772679
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.

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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.

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804772673
ISBN 13 
9780804772679
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
280
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9780804772662: Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World

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ISBN 10 :  0804772665 ISBN 13 :  9780804772662
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2011
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