Paradise Redefined : Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World.

In 2004, Vanessa Fong offered a groundbreaking ethnographic exploration of the social, economic, and psychological development of children born since China's one-child policy was introduced in 1979. Her book Only Hope left readers with a picture of stressed, ambitious adolescents for whom elite...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fong, Vanessa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Chinese students > Foreign countries.
Foreign study > China.
Transnationalism.
Études à l'étranger > Chine.
Transnationalisme.
Chinese students > Foreign countries
Emigration and immigration
Foreign study
Transnationalism
China > Emigration and immigration.
China
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In 2004, Vanessa Fong offered a groundbreaking ethnographic exploration of the social, economic, and psychological development of children born since China's one-child policy was introduced in 1979. Her book Only Hope left readers with a picture of stressed, ambitious adolescents for whom elite status was the ultimate goal, though relatively few were in a position to achieve it. In Paradise Redefined, Fong tracks the experiences of many in her initial cohort of Chinese only-children--now college-age--as they study abroad in Australia, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, North America, and Singapore. Whil.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (279 pages)
ISBN:9780804781756
0804781753

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