This is part 2 of 3. In this episode we discuss the gaokao exam, the toll it takes on young people, and the increasing divide between those from richer, more developed areas and students from the margins of society.

In part 1 we explored life for middle schoolers racing to the top of an increasingly steep hill: https://youtu.be/hg86rP15eOE

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Sources
The Mental Health Camp Treating China’s Troubled ‘Gaokao’ Kids, Sixth Tone

Choice of Higher Education Institutions: Perspectives of Students from Different Provinces in China, Ashraf et al.

Fairness in Admission: Voices from Rural Chinese Female Students in Selective Universities in Chinese Mainland, Ma and Wang

Access to Higher Education in China: Differences in Opportunity, WANG Houxiong

Higher education expansion and inequality in educational opportunities in China, Lingli Wu & Kun Yan & Yuqi Zhang

Rural students’ evolving educational aspirations and the sense of ‘ft’ in the changing context of China’s higher education: a life history approach, Jiexiu Chen

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