Meritocracy and Its Discontents : : Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China / / Zachary M. Howlett.
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 Gaok...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Note on Translation and Orthography -- |t Selected Twentieth-Century Timeline -- |t Prologue: The Final Battle -- |t 1 A FATEFUL RITE OF PASSAGE The Gaokao and the Myth of Meritocracy -- |t 2 MOBILITY, TIME, AND VALUE The High Stakes of Examination and the Ideology of Developmentalism -- |t 3 COUNTERFEIT FAIRNESS State Secrets and the False Confidence of Test Takers -- |t 4 DILIGENCE VERSUS QUALITY Merit, Inequality, and Urban Hegemony -- |t 5 COURAGE UNDER FIRE The Paradoxical Role of Head Teachers and the Individualizing Moment of Examination -- |t 6 MAGIC AND MERITOCRACY Popular-Religious Responses to Examination Anxiety -- |t Epilogue LOST AND CONFUSED -- |t Notes -- |t References -- |t Index |
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520 | |a 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 fateful rite of passage in which people strive to personify cultural virtues such as diligence, composure, filial devotion, and divine favor. | ||
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650 | 0 | |a Achievement tests |z China. | |
650 | 0 | |a Gaokao (Educational test) |x Social aspects. | |
650 | 0 | |a Universities and colleges |z China |x Entrance examinations. | |
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650 | 4 | |a Education & History Of Education. | |
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653 | |a Chinese national college entrance exam. | ||
653 | |a Gaokao. | ||
653 | |a education inequality Gaokaov, rural-to-urban migration, college admission corruption Gaokao. | ||
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