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Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China

Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China

Howlett Zachary M.
Razin Andrey

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary Eastern Studies

Chinese HistoryGeneral EducationGeneral Sociology

ISBN13: 9798887194813
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: Jan 2 2024
Pages: 406
Weight: 1.56
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Russian
ENG: Meritocracy and Its Discontents investigates the wider social, political, religious, and economic dimensions of the Gaokao, China's national college entrance exam, as well as the complications that arise from its existence. Each year, some nine million high school seniors in China take the Gaokao, which determines college admission and provides a direct but difficult route to an urban lifestyle for China's hundreds of millions of rural residents. But with college graduates struggling to find good jobs, some are questioning the exam's legitimacy-and, by extension, the fairness of Chinese society. Chronicling the experiences of underprivileged youth, Zachary M. Howlett's research illuminates how people remain captivated by the exam because they regard it as fateful--an event both consequential and undetermined. He finds that the exam enables people both to rebel against the social hierarchy and to achieve recognition within it.


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