%0 Journal Article
%T A ˇ°Feel
%A Xuan Dong
%J Education and Urban Society
%@ 1552-3535
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0013124517747366
%X This article examines how a group of martial arts students in China make sense of their futures and how their hopes toward a ˇ°feel-goodˇ± 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
%K class identity
%K martial arts education
%K hope
%K China
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0013124517747366