Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today : A Keyword Approach (Paperback)

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.