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The meaning of neoliberal education for Chinese graduate students at UIUC

Chae, Seun Ju

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Title
The meaning of neoliberal education for Chinese graduate students at UIUC
Author(s)
Chae, Seun Ju
Issue Date
2008
Keyword(s)
  • ANTH499 S08
  • neoliberalism
  • Chinese graduate students
  • youth
Abstract
Our group project was initiated by the question why many Chinese graduate students show tendencies of returning to China more compared to the past. For our resources we interviewed twelve Chinese graduate students in engineering and science departments. We focused our analysis on ten of the twelve interviews, which were conducted with male students, after we found out male students tended to have more firm opinions on the subject issue we were dealing with. In the course of our research, we found out that family, improving economy of China, and nationalism played as important factors for their decisions to return.
Series/Report Name or Number
Anth 499, East Asian Youth and Global Futures, Prof. Nancy Abelmann and Prof. Karen Kelsky: East Asian youth have experienced perhaps the world’s most compressed development as well as the world’s most aggressive globalization policies. This course examines how youth in East Asia (China/s, Japan, and the Koreas) are making their way in our globalizing world, focusing in particular on the transformations in work, education, recreation, gender, and sexuality brought about by neoliberal economic restructuring in the region. Topics studied include the insecure job market for young people, consumerism, globalized pop culture phenomena such as Pokemon, the Korean wave, and Internet gaming, emergent LGBT communities, etc. Students are encouraged to focus their research projects on aspects of the U. of I. student life that reflect the experiences of East Asian youth in a global market. The U of I offers a fascinating window on East Asian youth because of the many college (and pre-college) students who make their way here – as well as the movement of “Amercian” youth to East Asia. Through participation in the Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI), students will conduct local field research that reveals the global processes at issue. The course syllabus is available at: www.eui.uiuc.edu/docs/syllabi/ANTH499S08.doc
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