Study Gods : How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition

作者：Yi-LinChiang

出版社：PrincetonUniversityPress

副标题：HowtheNewChineseElitePrepareforGlobalCompetition

出版年：2022-8

页数：288

定价：USD27.95

装帧：Paperback

ISBN：9780691210483

内容简介
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Study Gods offers a rare look at the ways privileged youth in China prepare themselves to join the ranks of the global elite. Yi-Lin Chiang shows how these competitive Chinese high schoolers first become “study gods” (xueshen), a term describing academically high-performing students. Constant studying, however, is not what explains their success, for these young people appear god-like in their effortless abilities to excel. Instead, Chiang explores how elite adolescents achieve by absorbing and implementing the rules surrounding status.

Drawing from eight years of fieldwork and extensive interviews, Chiang reveals the important lessons that Chinese youth learn in their pursuit of elite status. They understand the hierarchy of the status system, recognizing and acquiring the characteristics that are prized, while avoiding those that are not. They maintain status by expecting differential treatment and performing status-based behaviors, which guide their daily interactions with peers, teachers, and parents. Lastly, with the help of resourceful parents, they rely on external assistance in the face of potential obstacles and failures. Chiang looks at how students hone these skills, applying them as they head to colleges and careers around the world, and in their relationships with colleagues and supervisors.

Highlighting another facet of China’s rising power, Study Gods announces the arrival of a new generation to the realm of global competition.

作者简介
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Yi-Lin Chiang is assistant professor of sociology at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. Twitter @chiang_yilin Instagram @yilin.chiang

评论 ······

采访了28个人就有脸写一本书，什么破玩意儿。

第六章我读地有点潦草了，可能我身边即使不是elite的父母也有很强的保护欲望，这在亚洲父母身上很明显。很喜欢结论里对中美教育的比较，在不同教育环境长大的学生们能怎样交流互动呢？还有在最后反思研究方法那里，知道了作者经历了什么挑战，如何不得不融入他们，才能完成调查。

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这让…

采访了28个人就有脸写一本书，什么破玩意儿。

第六章我读地有点潦草了，可能我身边即使不是elite的父母也有很强的保护欲望，这在亚洲父母身上很明显。很喜欢结论里对中美教育的比较，在不同教育环境长大的学生们能怎样交流互动呢？还有在最后反思研究方法那里，知道了作者经历了什么挑战，如何不得不融入他们，才能完成调查。

总的来说，这本书里的精英要么追求分数要么追求优秀工作，有着自洽的等级体系，并且以躺平作为退路。即使是失败，也不至于片甲不回。

这让…

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