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Title IChina : the rise of the individual in modern Chinese society / edited by Mette Halskov Hansen and Rune Svarverud.

Publication Info. Copenhagen : NIAS, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 275 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series NIAS studies in Asian topics ; 45
NIAS studies in Asian topics ; 45.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword: Varieties of individualization / Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim -- Introduction: Conflicting images of the individual and contested process of individualization / Yunxiang Yan -- Idealizing individual choice: work, love and family in the eyes of young, rural Chinese / Mette Halskov Hansen and Cuiming Pang -- He is he and I am I: individual and collective among China's elderly / Sig Thoegersen and Ni Anru -- Individualization and the political agency of private business people in China / Joergen Delman and Yin Ziaoqing -- A collective of their own: young volunteers at the fringes of the party realm / Unn Malfrid H. Rolandsen -- Between self and community: the individual in contemporary Chinese literature / Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg -- Individual self-discipline and collective freedom in the minds of Chinese intellectuals / Rune Svarverud -- 'Friendly pressure': law and the individual in modern China / Klaus Muhlhahn -- Collective symbols and individual options: life on a state farm for returned overseas Chinese after decollectivization / Li Minghuan.
Summary 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Social change -- China.
Social change.
China.
Individualism -- China.
Individualism.
China -- Social conditions -- 2000-
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 2000-
Since 2000
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Hansen, Mette Halskov.
Svarverud, Rune.
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.
Added Title Rise of the individual in modern Chinese society
I China
Other Form: Print version: IChina. Copenhagen : NIAS, 2010 9788776940522 (OCoLC)463642874
ISBN 9788776945312 (electronic book)
8776945316 (electronic book)
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