1st Edition
Citizenship and Education in Contemporary China Contexts, Perspectives, and Understandings
1. Citizenship and Education: Chinese Context and Conceptualisations
Yeow-Tong Chia and Zhenzhou Zhao
Section 1: Practising Citizenship within China’s State Education System
2. Rethinking Citizenship and Citizenship Education in Contemporary China: Discourses and Politics
Sicong Chen
3. Does Democracy Still Have a Chance? Contextualizing Citizenship Education in China
Tianlong Yu
4. Marginal Citizens Exercising Their Individual Autonomy for Self-Identification: The Case of Migrant Students at a Vocational High School in Beijing
Wing On Lee and Ji Qi
Section 2: Envisaging Citizenship through a Cultural Lens
5. Educating the Cosmopolitan Citizen in Confucian Classical Education in Contemporary China
Canglong Wang
6.State–Actor Interactions in Cultivating National Identity with Traditional Culture: Experiences in China’s Cultural Governance
Shuqin Xu
7. Religious Façade of ‘the Chinese Nation’ in China’s School Curriculum
Zhenzhou Zhao
Section 3: Implementing Citizenship Education in Hong Kong
8.Understanding Civic Education in Hong Kong: A Bernsteinian Analysis of Teachers’ Perspectives
Kin Cheung Adrian Yan
9. Identity and Citizenship in Hong Kong: A Theoretical Reflection Using Chinese Landscape Painting
Derrick Tu
10. The Changes in Hong Kong Students’ Perceptions of the ‘Good Citizen’: Implications for Implementing Civic Education Curriculum
Hui Li, Xiaoxue Kuang and Mingyue Liang
Afterword
Citizenship and Education in a Changing Chinese Society: Concepts, Challenges, Practices and Future Tasks
Meiyao Wu
Biography
Yeow-Tong Chia is Senior Lecturer in History Education in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney. He is the author of Education, Culture and the Singapore Developmental State: World-Soul Lost and Regained? (2015) and co-author of Teacher Preparation in Singapore: A Concise Critical History (2022).
Zhenzhou Zhao is Assistant Professor in Department of Curriculum and Instruction, the Education University of Hong Kong. She is an editor of Cogent Education and a member of the International Advisory Board of the British Journal of Religious Education. She also serves on the editorial boards of Gender and Education and Chinese Education and Society.
