Governing Educational Desire: Culture, Politics, and Schooling in China

by Andrew Kipnis (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $35.85

  That parents in China greatly value higher education for their children is a well-known aspect of contemporary Chinese culture, but the intensity and effects of their desire to achieve this goal have largely gone unexamined. This title explores this universal desire for a college education and its vast consequences.