Lin, Xiaodong orcid.org/0000-0001-9722-8607 and Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin (2019) Shifting Discourses from Boy Preference to Boy Crisis:Educating Boys and Nation Building in Neoliberal China. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. pp. 281-293. ISSN 0159-6306
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.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
Keywords: | Boy crisis,China,masculinity,neoliberalism,patriarchy,schooling,suzhi |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Sociology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2017 09:00 |
Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2025 23:09 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2017.1312284 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/01596306.2017.1312284 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:114981 |
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