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Mobilising China's One-Child Generation
Education, Nationalism and Youth Militarisation in the PRC
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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 and National Defence Education programmes...
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Explores the militarisation of education and youth in contemporary China.
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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 and National Defence Education 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.
Series: Advances in Critical Military Studies
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Mobilising China's One-Child Generation
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 and National Defence Education programmes to foster love for the nation and the Party-state, mobilise the population to fight...Paperback$10200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
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ISBN: 9781399519427
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 February 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
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Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 280
About the Author
Orna Naftali holds the Abraham Miller Chair in Chinese Studies and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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