Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Chinese education and processes of individualization
  • Discipline and agency: quests for individual space
  • Text and truth: visions of the learned person and good citizen
  • Hierarchy and democracy: controlled rise of the individual
  • Motivation and examination: the making and breaking of the individual
  • Dreams and dedications: teachers' views and the construction of a generation gap
  • Conclusion: authoritarian individualization.