Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Rising China and Governing Aspirations for Cultural Politics, Music, and Education
- 3 The Struggle for Cultural Identity, School Education, and Music Education in Hong Kong
- 4 Music Education in Taiwan: Imagining the Local, the National, and the Global
- 5 Music Teachers’ Perspectives on Cultural and National Values in School Music Education in Greater China
- 6 Discussion: Rethinking the Transmission of Values and Music Cultures between Nationalism and Globalization in Music Education in Greater China
- 7 Recapitulation and Conclusion
- Appendix: Teacher Questionnaire
- Index
2 - Rising China and Governing Aspirations for Cultural Politics, Music, and Education
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 April 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Rising China and Governing Aspirations for Cultural Politics, Music, and Education
- 3 The Struggle for Cultural Identity, School Education, and Music Education in Hong Kong
- 4 Music Education in Taiwan: Imagining the Local, the National, and the Global
- 5 Music Teachers’ Perspectives on Cultural and National Values in School Music Education in Greater China
- 6 Discussion: Rethinking the Transmission of Values and Music Cultures between Nationalism and Globalization in Music Education in Greater China
- 7 Recapitulation and Conclusion
- Appendix: Teacher Questionnaire
- Index
Summary
Abstract
President Xi Jinping has emphasized the path of socialist education with Chinese characteristics for the fulfilment of socialist modernization, including the realization of the Belt and Road Initiative to highlight political, economic, and cultural developments. Education is seen in China as comparable in importance to political development and cultural growth, and with the Chinese Dream, there is more potential for national restoration and for imparting a new global outlook in school education. With this in mind, Chapter Two explores the extent to which policies for national identity formation and globalization interact to complement and contradict each other on the path of socialist education with Chinese characteristics in school music education.
Keywords: China's school music education, Chinese characteristics, Chinese Dream, global outlook, national restoration, socialist education
After the announcement of Deng Xiaoping's ‘Open Door Policy’ in 1978, China experienced a gradual transition from a state-owned economy to a socialist market economy. The Four Modernizations project for agriculture, industry, national defence, and science and technology – launched in December of that year – quickly became outdated due to the rapid expansion of transnational capital in the 1980s and economic stagnation around the time of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Incident. The term ‘socialist market economy’ was introduced by Jiang Zemin during the 14th National Congress of the CPC in 1992 to describe the goal of China's economic reforms. The shift from a planned economy to mixed forms of private and public ownership within a market environment represented a new historic breakthrough in the reforms and opening up and created entirely new prospects for China's political, economic, and cultural progress between the 1990s and the 2000s. In November 2012, President Xi Jinping promoted a new slogan, the ‘Chinese Dream’ (Zhongguo Meng: a popular term in the prc describing a personal and national ethos and a set of ideas), to represent his ideals for national development and to uphold the ruling ideology of his new leadership. Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era was included in the cpc's Constitution during the 19th National Congress in October 2014.
The Chinese Dream is associated with President Xi's goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation (Callahan 2015a, 2015b, 2017; Ferdinand 2016).
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- Globalization, Nationalism, and Music Education in the Twenty-First Century in Greater China , pp. 55 - 110Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2021