scholarly journals The Long Shadow of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: The Intergenerational Transmission of Education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Meng ◽  
Guochang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Chinese Cultural Revolution ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission Of Education

Do Muscles Matter?—Women and Physical Strength: A Reply to Xinyan Jiang

Hypatia ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Jay Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Physical Strength ◽  
Sexual Equality ◽  
Chinese Cultural Revolution

In Hypatia's (1.5) 3, issue, Xinyan Jiang describes a failed experiment in sexual equality conducted during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She believes the lesson to be drawn from it is that males will continue to have an advantage in societies requiring much physical strength. In contrast, I argue here that this failed experiment shows that the Maoist attempt to force women into men's roles was not feminist. American pioneers are cited as a counterexample.

Socio-Economic Family Background and Adult Children’s Health in Germany: The Role of Intergenerational Transmission of Education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Arránz Becker ◽  
Katharina Loter
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission Of Education

Abstract This study examines consequences of parental education for adult children’s physical and mental health using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study. Based on random-effects growth curve models (N = 15,144 West German respondents born between 1925 and 1998 aged 18–80), we estimate gender-, age-, and cohort-specific trajectories of physical and mental health components of the SF-12 questionnaire for low and high parental education measured biennially from 2002 to 2018. Findings suggest more persistent effects of parental education on physical than mental health. In particular, both daughters and sons of the lower educated group of parents (with neither parent qualified for university) exhibit markedly poorer physical health over the whole life course and worse mental health in mid-life and later life than those of higher educated parents. Thus, children’s health gradients conditional on parental education tend to widen with increasing age. Once children’s educational attainment is held constant, effects of parental education on children’s health mostly vanish. This suggests that in the strongly stratified West German context with its rather low social mobility, intergenerational transmission of education, which, according to our analyses, has been declining among younger cohorts, contributes to cementing long-term health inequalities across the life course.

A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Telos ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 1974 (20) ◽  
pp. 138-153
Author(s):  
G. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Chinese Cultural Revolution ◽  
History Of

The curator, the investor, and the dupe: Consumer desire and Chinese Cultural Revolution memorabilia

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Coderre
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Commodity Exchange ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Exchange Value ◽  
Historical Responsibility ◽  
Chinese Cultural Revolution ◽  
Consumer Desire

This article examines the discourse surrounding the collection of Cultural Revolution memorabilia in the contemporary People’s Republic of China. The author focuses on the emergence of three key discursive figures: the collector/curator, the collector/investor, and the collector as dupe. At issue in the construction of each of these figures is the unsettling force of consumer desire, its ethics and negotiation. In the case of the curator and investor, the author considers the mechanisms through which consumer desire is decentered in the name of historical responsibility and exchange value, respectively. These mechanisms of deferral are contrasted to the often nostalgic desire embodied by the dupe, but this figure and his or her consumer desire are in fact crucial to the discourse of collection as a whole. Indeed, despite claims to the contrary, the dupe bespeaks an enduring quest for a mode of interaction between person and thing outside the bounds of commodity exchange.

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