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Being modern in China : a Western cultural analysis of modernity, tradition and schooling in China t...

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Being modern in China : a Western cultural analysis of modernity, tradition and schooling in China today / Paul Willis.

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Being modern in China : a Western cultural analysis of modernity, tradition and schooling in China today / Paul Willis.

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Publisher

Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, 2020.

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G 2019/5555

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74VKa2RgQgmZ

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991024275712402626

Language

English

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Physical content

xii, 196 pages ; 23 cm

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

The Chinese scene -- Modernity's symbolic order -- Country bad/city good -- Consuming consumerism -- The Internet as deus ex machina -- Education's symbolic order -- The Gaokao regime -- The three arrows and experience -- "People is the fish" -- The view from the saved -- Passing Gaokao -- Not passi...

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Publisher

Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, 2020.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

2020.

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Full title

Being modern in China : a Western cultural analysis of modernity, tradition and schooling in China today / Paul Willis.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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©2020

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G 2019/5555

Record Identifier

74VKa2RgQgmZ

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKa2RgQgmZ

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ISBN

1509538313 paperback

9781509538300 hardcover

1509538305 hardcover

9781509538317 paperback

DDC

951.0612

MMS ID

991024275712402626

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