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Ruixue Jia,Hongbin Li,Claire Cousineau

The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China

The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China

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Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 09 September 2025
Publisher: Harvard University Press

The Highest Exam provides a detailed, research-driven survey of the gaokao, China’s high-stakes college entrance exam. Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li—past test-takers themselves—show how the exam system shapes schooling, serves state interests, inspires individualistic attitudes, and has lately become a touchstone in US education debates.

Weight: 428g
Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780674295391

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