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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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Howlett, Zachary M., 1976- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2021.
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