Social Transformations in Chinese Societies: Volume 19 Issue 2

Beyond the state’s reach? Education and citizen making in China

Zhenzhou Zhao, Canglong Wang

This special issue aims to address the complexities and dynamics in contemporary China’s citizen-making processes, with a focus on the educational dimension.

Active participants but confused minds: university students’ perceptions of citizenship learning experiences in Chinese higher education

Chong Zhang

There is widespread debate about the nationalistic top-down approach of citizenship education. By using the notion of cultural citizenship as a useful theoretical lens…

Expanding flexible citizenship: Chinese international school students and global mobilities for higher education

Ying Ma, Ewan Wright

This study aims to interrogate and expand on the flexible citizenship framework by illuminating students' emergent identities and imagined future mobilities in China's expanding…

Constructing global citizenship identity through accumulating cultural capital: Chinese female international students’ experiences at a British university

Siqi Zhang

This paper aims to explore Chinese female international students’ construction of global citizenship identity by examining their accumulation of cultural capital in different…

Practicing citizenship privately: ethical self-fashioning and citizen-making in the revival of “Chinese Traditional Culture”

Liangliang Zhang

This paper aims to explore the relationship between ethical self-fashioning and citizenship practices in the ongoing revival of “Chinese Traditional Culture” pursued in tandem by…