Fragile Elite: The Dilemmas of China's Top University Students

by Susanne Bregnbaek

Book Overview

China's One Child Policy and its rigorous national focus on educational testing are well known. But what happens to those "lucky" few at the very top of the pyramid: elite university students in China who grew up under the One Child Policy and now attend the nation's most prestigious universities? How do they feel about having made it to the top of an extremely competitive educational system--as their parents' only child? What pressures do they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804797781
• ISBN13: 9780804797788
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"