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Rethinking Advanced Culture: A China-Characterised Bricolage

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It is my premise in this chapter that critical theory should be developed in accordance with its specific sociocultural context. Within different contexts, critical theory may acquire multiple layers and dimensions and, in combination with the characteristics of its context, can thus produce new and unique forms. In China, which Li (2004) describes as having ‘a capitalist body’ under the cover of ‘a socialist face’, the paradigm of Marxist materialism and ‘core values’ promoted by the Chinese government (Zhang, 2008) contradict the capitalist bias of its practical reality, particularly in ‘the third industry’, that is, the cultural industry, which, owing to its ‘teaching and transforming’ function, is arguably an implicit form of education (Du, 2010).

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Li, X. (2016). Rethinking Advanced Culture: A China-Characterised Bricolage. In: Perselli, V. (eds) Education, Theory and Pedagogies of Change in a Global Landscape. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137549235_7

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