Shifting Discourses from Boy Preference to Boy Crisis: Educating Boys and Nation Building in Neoliberal China

Autor/inn/en	Lin, Xiaodong; Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin
Titel	Shifting Discourses from Boy Preference to Boy Crisis: Educating Boys and Nation Building in Neoliberal China
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 40 (2019) 3, S.281-293 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2017.1312284
Schlagwörter	Neoliberalism; Males; Educational Quality; Discourse Analysis; Foreign Countries; Social Change; Economic Factors; Cultural Context; Preferences; Economic Change; Western Civilization; Educational Attitudes; Masculinity; Public Policy; Birth; Nationalism; Asian Culture; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Diskursanalyse; Ausland; Sozialer Wandel; Ökonomischer Faktor; Ökonomischer Wandel; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Männlichkeit; Öffentliche Ordnung; Geburt; Nationalismus
Abstract	It is well established that China has emerged as a major economic power, resulting from the nation's neoliberal modernization. What is less understood is the socio-cultural and educational impact of this change on public institutions. This article focuses on the education system, which is currently seen as central to delivering the nation's modernization project, particularly through "suzhi jiaoyu" (education for quality). More specifically, we engage with a pervasive public discourse of a boy crisis. We suggest the need critically to explore the local (national) meanings within a contemporary Chinese context of this assumed projected crisis that appears to be established as a western phenomenon. We argue that the discourse of a boy crisis can be read as a strategic move to re-inscribe an earlier discourse, that of the boy preference, that in turn is discursively linked to nation building at a time of globally inflected socio-economic transformations. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01