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100 _aDong, Xuan
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245 _aA “Feel-Good” Future: Hopes and Class Identities Among Martial Arts Students in China
260 _bSage,
_c2019.
300 _aVol 51, Issue 6, 2019(848-867 p. )
520 _aThis 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.
650 _aclass identity,
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650 _a martial arts education,
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650 _ahope,
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650 _a China
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_dSage Publisher,
_tEducation and urban society
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0013124517747366
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