Governing the Family through Parental Responsibilisation and Professionalisation: An Analysis of the State ‘Family Education’ Discourses in Contemporary China

It is a global trend for nations to set forth various social policies guide and regulate parents in their parenting practices as form of family governance. In China, this echoed by number ‘family education’ guidelines. Drawing upon critical discourse analysis three education documents, article argues that the ideal Chinese parent one with high suzhi who responsible, rational competent science-based knowledge skills, conjoining closely China’s nation-building agenda produce citizens could contribute building strong nation. reference international scholarship, these discourses are understood governance through parental responsibilisation professionalisation. The also calls more empirical research understand implications official parent-child relations diverse socio-economic cultural contexts around China.