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

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.

RUS: В своей книге Закари Хоулетт исследует социальные, политические, религиозные и экономические аспекты гаокао -- государственного вступительного экзамена в высшие учебные заведения Китая. Ежегодно его сдают около девяти миллионов старшеклассников. Для сотен миллионов сельских жителей Китая это один из немногих путей к городскому образу жизни. Книга Хоулетта, в которой он описывает опыт молодежи из малообеспеченных слоев населения, показывает, что тема экзамена продолжает присутст

Author: Howlett Zachary M.

Publisher: Academic Studies Press

Publication Date: Jan 02, 2024

Number of Pages: 406 pages

Binding: Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10: NA

ISBN-13: 9798887194813