
Mobilising China's One-Child Generation
Education, Nationalism and Youth Militarisation in the PRC
By: Orna Naftali
Hardcover | 31 August 2024
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Drawing on a wide variety of Chinese-language publications and in-depth interviews with high-school students, Mobilising China's One-Child Generation provides systematic evidence of the spread of martial logic and techniques into Chinese schools. The book explores how China has implemented Patriotic Education (PE) and National Defence Education (NDE) programmes to foster love for the nation and the Party-state, mobilise the population to fight modern wars in the information age, and encourage youth to join the army. It studies how these programmes present the tropes of war and the military to youth, and how they are related to shifting constructions of gender and the national collectivity. It also documents students' varied perceptions-and notably contestations-of this militarised ethos, complicating our understanding of popular nationalism and militarisation processes in this authoritarian global power.
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Around the world, matters of security are shrouded in secrecy. Naftali skilfully and courageously lifts the veil from the multiple enmeshments of education with militarisation in China, one youngster at a time. A disciplined and ruthless book, and a must read for everyone who desires to understand the promises and limits of militarisation.
--Sabine Fr?hst?ck, University of California Santa BarbaraIn this ethnographically enriched book, Naftali navigates macro-level discourses, institutional practices and individual subjectivities to offer a nuanced exploration of China's militarisation of education and the complicated perceptions of it by the nation's youth.
--Fengshu Liu, University of OsloThis is the first authoritative study of how the Chinese education system and media guide youth on war, peace and the military. And, how youth respond in often unexpected ways to these top-down lessons. Naftali's insights are urgent and profound for all those concerned about China and the world's strategic order.
--Louise Edwards, University of New South Wales, AustraliaISBN: 9781399519410
ISBN-10: 1399519417
Series: Advances in Critical Military Studies
Published: 31st August 2024
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 232
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.75
Weight (kg): 0.57
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