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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
2021.
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