Titlebook: Higher Education, Meritocracy and Inequality in China; Ye Liu Book 2016 Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016 Higher Education in

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Book 2016 in upward social mobility through higher education. When the .Gaokao. broke the promise of status improvement for rural students, they turned to the Chinese Communist Party and sought political connections by actively applying for its membership. This book reveals a bleak picture of visible and inv

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Introduction,2008; Jacques 2012: 490) which, despite the recent slow-down, still far exceeds the OECD average. It has the largest capital reserves of any country (Anderlini 2010) and is now the second largest economy in the world by GDP. At the same time, it has achieved rapid improvement in living standards amo

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Meritocracy and Cultural Capital,ducation selection in China. Chapter . highlights cultural reproduction through the civil service examination—the . in the imperial China. It is argued that cultural reproduction hinges on the continuity of the legitimacy of the . examination as a social selection mechanism in imperial China. The .

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,Meritocracy, Gender and the ‘One-Child’ Policy, interviews, which followed upon the survey study in 2007. Moving away from the quantitative analysis on the meritocratic nature of the . selection, this chapter will bring out the voices from the main participants in the .-female students on their journey to universities. The quantitative analysis

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Conclusions,ens depicted in .: “It was the best of times, it was the worse of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair” (Dickens 1859). If Dickens brilliantly captured the