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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Howlett, Zachary M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Meritocracy and Its Discontents : Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China / Zachary M. Howlett. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (282 p.) : 12 b&w halftones, 2 charts text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Orthography -- Selected Twentieth-Century Timeline -- Prologue: The Final Battle -- 1 A FATEFUL RITE OF PASSAGE The Gaokao and the Myth of Meritocracy -- 2 MOBILITY, TIME, AND VALUE The High Stakes of Examination and the Ideology of Developmentalism -- 3 COUNTERFEIT FAIRNESS State Secrets and the False Confidence of Test Takers -- 4 DILIGENCE VERSUS QUALITY Merit, Inequality, and Urban Hegemony -- 5 COURAGE UNDER FIRE The Paradoxical Role of Head Teachers and the Individualizing Moment of Examination -- 6 MAGIC AND MERITOCRACY Popular-Religious Responses to Examination Anxiety -- Epilogue LOST AND CONFUSED -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Achievement tests China. Gaokao (Educational test) Social aspects. Universities and colleges China Entrance examinations. Anthropology. Asian Studies. Education & History Of Education. HISTORY / Asia / China. bisacsh Chinese national college entrance exam. Gaokao. education inequality Gaokaov, rural-to-urban migration, college admission corruption Gaokao. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739084 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2021 English 9783110754087 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2021 9783110753851 ZDB-23-DEG print 9781501754432 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501754449?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501754449 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501754449/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Orthography -- Selected Twentieth-Century Timeline -- Prologue: The Final Battle -- 1 A FATEFUL RITE OF PASSAGE The Gaokao and the Myth of Meritocracy -- 2 MOBILITY, TIME, AND VALUE The High Stakes of Examination and the Ideology of Developmentalism -- 3 COUNTERFEIT FAIRNESS State Secrets and the False Confidence of Test Takers -- 4 DILIGENCE VERSUS QUALITY Merit, Inequality, and Urban Hegemony -- 5 COURAGE UNDER FIRE The Paradoxical Role of Head Teachers and the Individualizing Moment of Examination -- 6 MAGIC AND MERITOCRACY Popular-Religious Responses to Examination Anxiety -- Epilogue LOST AND CONFUSED -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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