...This chapter explores how the notion of “science” or “the scientific” is invoked by Chinese psychological experts and practitioners in their efforts to translate, brand, and apply certain branches of psychology and psychotherapy to Chinese society. It explains how the popular pursuit of well-being...

... college admission and provides a direct but difficult route to an urban lifestyle for China's hundreds of millions of rural residents. But with college graduates struggling to find good jobs, some are questioning the exam's legitimacy — and, by extension, the fairness of Chinese society. Chronicling...

... “breadwinning” careers to contingent employment in the post-industrial United States. This book examines the nature, causes, and consequences of informal employment in China at a time of major changes in Chinese society. It provides a guide to the evolving dynamics among workers, unions, NGOs, employers...

... uprisings gained autonomy as petitioners and beneficiaries of death stipends. Ultimately, the chapter sheds new light on the gender dynamics of modern Chinese society. It looks at the growing group of feminist men and women who linked women's liberation to the wealth and power of the nation. citizenship...

..., Han elite. It also talks about the concept of diligence in China as a characteristically rural virtue, saying that people in the countryside that are accustomed to sweat and toil are better at “eating bitterness.” The chapter investigates the devotion to diligence that pervades Chinese society...