Meritocracy and Its Discontents
Subtitle: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781501754432
Description: "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, composure, and divine favor or luck"--