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OverviewENG: 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: , , - . . . , , , . - . , , , , . Full Product DetailsAuthor: Howlett Zachary M. , Razin AndreyPublisher: Academic Studies Press Imprint: Academic Studies Press Weight: 0.712kg ISBN: 9798887194813Pages: 406 Publication Date: 11 January 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationENG:Dr. Zachary M. Howlett is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale-NUS College at the National University of Singapore, where he holds a courtesy joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and serves as an Associate in the Centre for Population Research. Dr. Howlett's research examines meritocracy, migration, and demographic change in China and the Chinese diasporas. He is the author of Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China (Cornell University Press, 2021), which is based on two years of field research in rural and urban Chinese high schools (201113). He has been a fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies in the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and is a member of the board of the Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. RUS: . - NUS (), , . - (USCC) . (SEAA). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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