Meritocracy and Its Discontents : Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China /
"An ethnography of the National College Entrance Examination, the Gaokao, in contemporary China. Discusses the exam as a fateful rite of passage that justifies and reinforces social inequality and the myth of meritocracy while enabling people to personify the cultural virtues of diligence, grit...
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
2021.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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