Parenting under Pressure: Educational Anxiety and the Making of Chinese Middle Class

This book investigates how educational anxiety shapes the everyday lives and moral worlds of China’s middle-class parents, revealing how emotion, modernity, and meritocracy intersect in a rapidly changing society. It offers a sociocultural perspective on family aspirations and the politics of schooling in contemporary China.

Educational anxiety has become a defining feature of China’s middle class, shaping their family life and visions of the future. This book brings together six in-depth st...