The limits of agency: aspirational frustrations amongst working-class Chinese youths

This paper investigates the frustrated aspirations of three young Han working-class students in Inner Mongolia, Northern China. Drawing upon anthropological debates and philosophical developments in action theory, I argue that the subject qua actor ought not to be seen as an analytic construct that...

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Main Author: Jiang, E
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Anthropological Society 2024