Self as method : thinking through China and the world / Biao Xiang, Qi Wu.
Xiang, Biao, author.; Wu, Qi, author.
2023
HQ799.C55
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Title
Self as method : thinking through China and the world / Biao Xiang, Qi Wu.
Author
Xiang, Biao, author.
ISBN
9789811949531 (electronic bk.)
9811949530 (electronic bk.)
9789811949524 (print)
9811949522
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4953-1
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vii, 268 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-19-4953-1 doi
Call Number
HQ799.C55
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.2350951
Summary
Despite China's rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China's young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversations between Xiang Biao, a social anthropologist, and Wu Qi, a rising journalist, the book probes how China has reached its current stage and how young people can make changes. The conversations touch on issues of mobility, education, family, relations between the self and the authority, centers and margins, China, and the world. The Chinese version was named the "most impactful book of 2021" by Douban, China's premier website for rating books, films, and music. The English version is translated by David Ownby, who also penned an introduction.
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Includes index.
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Open access.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 10, 2022).
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Wu, Qi, author.
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Print version: 9789811949524
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1. Introduction
Part I. Beijing Interview, March 2018
2. Setting the Stage
3. Childhood Picture
4. The 1980s Culture Craze
5. Beida after 1989
6. Researching Zhejiang Village
7. Youth Melancholy
8. The Center and the Margins
9. Personal Crisis
10. Globalization and Anti-Globalization
11. Using the 1980s to Critique the 1980s
12. What is Criticism?
13. Empathetic Scholarship
Part II. Oxford Interview, August 2018
14. Setting the Stage
15. Impressions of Oxford
16. A Sense of Distance and Directness
17. Anthropologists and their World
18. Non-Fiction Writing
19. Academics is not a vocation
20. Nationalism and Populism
21. Singapore Enlightenment
22. The Importance of Community
23. Building your own Cross-Border Worlds
24. Universities Should Look for the Exceptional
25. Problematizing Individual Experience
26. New Research
27. Common Ideals
28. Local Gentry as Method
Part III. Wenzhou Interview, December 2018
29. Setting the Stage
30. Social Reproduction
31. The Paradox of Class Mobility
32. Looking for a New Discourse
33. Anthropology as Intermediary
34. The Local Gentry: Once More with Feeling.

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