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作者

Xuan Dong

来源

EDUCATION AND URBAN SOCIETY,Vol.51,Issue.6

语言

英文

关键字

class identity, martial arts education, hope, China

作者单位

1East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

摘要

This article examines how a group of martial arts students in China make sense of their futures and how their hopes toward a “feel-good” future reveal and affect their perceived class identities. Twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in Dengfeng, a county-level city in central China. Dengfeng was home to 48 registered martial arts schools and more than 70,000 full-time students in 2012. By uncovering the hopes, aspirations, and perceived class identities of people in martial arts schools, this article argues that the process of class-making for these martial arts students results in constantly reorienting their hopes. These hopes often reflect social comparisons with familiar others like parents, friends, and acquaintances.