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Meritocracy And Its Discontents Anxiety And The National College Entrance Exam In China Zachary M Howlett

Name: Meritocracy And Its Discontents Anxiety And The National College Entrance Exam In China Zachary M Howlett
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Meritocracy And Its Discontents Anxiety And The National College Entrance Exam In China Zachary M Howlett instant download after payment.

Publisher: Cornell University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 4.1 MB

Pages: 282

Author: Zachary M. Howlett

ISBN: 9781501754432, 1501754432

Language: English

Year: 2021

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Meritocracy And Its Discontents Anxiety And The National College Entrance Exam In China Zachary M Howlett by Zachary M. Howlett 9781501754432, 1501754432 instant download after payment.

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.
In Meritocracy and Its Discontents, Howlett contends that the Gaokao serves as a pivotal rite of passage in which people strive to personify cultural virtues such as diligence, composure, filial devotion, and divine favor.