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Author:   Gil Hizi
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
ISBN:  

9789463723992

ISBN 10:   9463723994
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   29 July 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contributors Editor Acknowledgements Introduction by Gil Hizi Part I: Developmentalist Thinking 1. Luohou (lagging-behind) and the impetus of self-improvement by Marius Meinhof 2. Fendou (struggle), self-help and Chinese modernity by Marco Fumian 3. Optimizing Individual Desires: Mengxiang (dreams) and entrepreneurship in Chinese Universities by Naja Morell Hjortshøj Part II: Transformative Frameworks 4. Qingxu shifang (emotional release) in psychotherapeutic learning by Anna Iskra 5. ’You've Got to Have Core Muscles’: Duanlian (exercise) and the disciplining of body and self among white-collar women by Xinyan Peng 6. Jiaohua (education for transformation) and self-refashioning in Chinese individuals’ Confucian learning by Canglong Wang Part III: Empowering Ingredients 7. To have nengli (ability) when lacking xueli (educational knowledge): Striving for success through craftiness in rural China by Liisa Kohonen 8. The Desire to Help: Aixin (loving heart) and self-development in China by Dan Wu and Yang Zhan 9. Learning to xinshang (appreciate): Young adults’ pursuit of non-standardized sensibilities by Gil Hizi 10. Between Fatalism and Voluntarism: The Concept of yuanfen (Fated Chance) and its Role for Young Adults' Psychosocial Adjustment in Contemporary China by Isabel Heger-Laube Part IV: Disillusionment 11. The inescapability of neijuan (involution) by Linda Qian and Barclay Bram 12. Tangping (lying flat) among young adults: Shameful, courageous, or just fleeting resistance? by Mieke Matthyssen 13. Epilogue: The politics of arrested self-development by Jiwei Ci Bibliography Index

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Gil Hizi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Goethe University Frankfurt

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