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- Shows a detailed and complex picture of the meaning of citizenship in Chinese society in the early twenty-first century
- Brings together the topics of Chinese media, university students and migrant workers
- Constructs Western citizenship conception as an analytical lens
- Connects citizenship conceptions in the East and West
- Discusses and promotes citizenship education in China
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Governance and Citizenship in Asia (GOCIA)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Western Lens and the State Factor
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Front Matter
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The Meaning of Gongmin in Society
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is a direct and empirical response to the mounting official interest in citizenship education, increasing dynamics between state and society, and growing citizenship awareness and practice in society in contemporary China. Placing the focus on society, the book investigates the meaning of the Chinese term gongmin – equivalent to ‘citizen’ – in non-official media discourses and in university students’ and migrant workers’ perceptions, through the constructed analytical lens of Western citizenship conception. By laying out the complex details of how the meaning of the term resembles and deviates in and between collective social discourses and individual citizens’ understandings with reference to state discourses, the book makes clear that there is discrepancy in the meaning of gongmin between state and society and that the meaning varies in contemporary Chinese society.
Cutting across multiple topics, this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers interested in Chinese citizenship, East-West citizenship, citizenship education, the media, university students and migrant workers in China.
Authors and Affiliations
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Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Sicong Chen
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Meaning of Citizenship in Contemporary Chinese Society
Book Subtitle: An Empirical Study through Western Lens
Authors: Sicong Chen
Series Title: Governance and Citizenship in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6323-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6321-3Published: 02 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4854-9Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6323-7Published: 13 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2365-6255
Series E-ISSN: 2365-6263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 162
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Education, International and Comparative Education