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Class Work: Vocational Schools and China’s Urban Youth

Class Work: Vocational Schools and China’s Urban Youth 92 Book Reviews TERRY WORONOV Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2016 Numeric capital, a term defined by Woronov as a ‘regime of value’ and a ‘form of fetish’ (14) in contemporary China, is at the heart of this beautifully written and care- fully organised ethnography. Instead of focusing on how members of the younger gen- eration pursue this system of meanings and values in academic schools, Woronov takes another path, approaching this form of capital by looking at a group of students who fail to accumulate ‘numeric capital’ and at its desire to nevertheless fit in with so- called mainstream society. According to Woronov, their efforts will probably result in the creation of a new class of precariat, different from both the rural-to-urban migrants and the new rich in urban China. Fieldwork for the study was conducted in two vocational schools in Nanjing, the capital city of Jiangsu Province. The first one, Bridge School, was founded in the Maoist era; it was initially aimed at producing highly skilled blue-collar workers and providing them with guaranteed employment in state-owned factories. Before the onset of the economic and political reforms in 1978, a much-coveted feature of vocational schools such as this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

Class Work: Vocational Schools and China’s Urban Youth

Li, Linlin
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology , Volume 19 (1): 2 – Jan 1, 2018
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Class Work: Vocational Schools and China’s Urban Youth

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92 Book Reviews TERRY WORONOV Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2016 Numeric capital, a term defined by Woronov as a ‘regime of value’ and a ‘form of fetish’ (14) in contemporary China, is at the heart of this beautifully written and care- fully organised ethnography. Instead of focusing on how members of the younger gen- eration pursue this system of meanings and values in academic schools, Woronov takes another path, approaching this form of capital by...
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92 Book Reviews TERRY WORONOV Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2016 Numeric capital, a term defined by Woronov as a ‘regime of value’ and a ‘form of fetish’ (14) in contemporary China, is at the heart of this beautifully written and care- fully organised ethnography. Instead of focusing on how members of the younger gen- eration pursue this system of meanings and values in academic schools, Woronov takes another path, approaching this form of capital by looking at a group of students who fail to accumulate ‘numeric capital’ and at its desire to nevertheless fit in with so- called mainstream society. According to Woronov, their efforts will probably result in the creation of a new class of precariat, different from both the rural-to-urban migrants and the new rich in urban China. Fieldwork for the study was conducted in two vocational schools in Nanjing, the capital city of Jiangsu Province. The first one, Bridge School, was founded in the Maoist era; it was initially aimed at producing highly skilled blue-collar workers and providing them with guaranteed employment in state-owned factories. Before the onset of the economic and political reforms in 1978, a much-coveted feature of vocational schools such as this

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