Education Under Mao
Class and Competition in Canton Schools, 1960-1980
Columbia University Press
Education Under Mao
Class and Competition in Canton Schools, 1960-1980
Columbia University Press
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I. The Sixties: Impending Crisis
1. Up the School Ladder
2. The Senior High School Bulge and Dwindling Career Openings
3. Flawed Reforms: Rural and Urban Alternatives to the Regular Ladder
4. Memorization and Tests
5. Student Ideals and Competition: The Gathering Storm
6. The Cultural Revolution
II. After the Cultural Revolution: The Disastrous Leap Into a New School System
7. Back to School, 1968-1970
8. Down to the Countryside
9. Troubled Schools, 1970-1976
10. The Fight Over Higher Education
Epilogue: The Return of the Old Order, 1977-1980
Appendix A: The Debates Over Talent
Appendix B: The Upper Reaches of the Pre-Cultural Revolution Ladder: Into and Out of the Universities
Appendix C: The Course Curricula and Daily Schedules of High Schools Before and After the Cultural Revolution
Sources and Abbreviations Used in Notes
Notes
For Further Reading
Index
Introduction
I. The Sixties: Impending Crisis
1. Up the School Ladder
2. The Senior High School Bulge and Dwindling Career Openings
3. Flawed Reforms: Rural and Urban Alternatives to the Regular Ladder
4. Memorization and Tests
5. Student Ideals and Competition: The Gathering Storm
6. The Cultural Revolution
II. After the Cultural Revolution: The Disastrous Leap Into a New School System
7. Back to School, 1968-1970
8. Down to the Countryside
9. Troubled Schools, 1970-1976
10. The Fight Over Higher Education
Epilogue: The Return of the Old Order, 1977-1980
Appendix A: The Debates Over Talent
Appendix B: The Upper Reaches of the Pre-Cultural Revolution Ladder: Into and Out of the Universities
Appendix C: The Course Curricula and Daily Schedules of High Schools Before and After the Cultural Revolution
Sources and Abbreviations Used in Notes
Notes
For Further Reading
Index