Being Modern in China: A Western Cultural Analysis of Modernity, Tradition, and Schooling in China Today, by Paul Willis. Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2019. v+196 pp. US$24.95 (paper).

2021 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 186-188
Author(s):  
Mette Halskov Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
China Today

Test Scores, Identities, and Cultural Possibilities

2020 ◽  
pp. 089590482090494
Author(s):  
Michael W. Apple
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Youth Cultures ◽  
National Examinations ◽  
Worth Reading ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
China Today ◽  
Orthodox View ◽  
International View

In my Reviewing Policy section of this journal I have often analyzed a number of significant books that focus on other nations. Such an international agenda is important. Analytically such a wider perspective provides fresh insights into the lenses we employ to understand crucial sets of social relations that are created by and create educational and larger dynamics. This international view has now taken a very interesting turn with the publication of Paul Willis’s newest book, Being Modern in China: A Western Cultural Analysis of Modernity, Tradition and Schooling in China Today. At the center of his analysis is the public school and especially the power of the national examinations in China as both structures that divide populations but also as powerful devices that embody identities both now and in the future. But it is much more than this. With its primary focus on both commodified and lived youth cultures, the book constitutes a substantive contribution to the questioning of the orthodox view of economic determinism within the political economy of education. Given this, it is definitely worth reading the book, but it is important to remember that this is indeed a “western” analysis.

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Dreaming ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayne Gackenbach ◽  
Yue Yu ◽  
Ming-Ni Lee
Keyword(s):  
Media Use ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
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Cross Cultural Analysis

First impressions & emotionality: A cross-cultural analysis

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly J. Hjerstedt ◽  
Ana Paula da Silva Rezende ◽  
Eduarda De Conti Dorea ◽  
Suilan Maria Sambrano Rossiter
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
First Impressions ◽  
Cross Cultural Analysis
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