Education under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools, 1960-1980

AcknowledgementsIntroductionI. The Sixties: Impending Crisis1. Up the School Ladder2. The Senior High School Bulge and Dwindling Career Openings3. Flawed Reforms: Rural and Urban Alternatives to the Regular Ladder4. Memorization and Tests5. Student Ideals and Competition: The Gathering Storm6. The Cultural RevolutionII. After the Cultural Revolution: The Disastrous Leap Into a New School System7. Back to School, 1968-19708. Down to the Countryside9. Troubled Schools, 1970-197610. The Fight Over Higher EducationEpilogue: The Return of the Old Order, 1977-1980Appendix A: The Debates Over TalentAppendix B: The Upper Reaches of the Pre-Cultural Revolution Ladder: Into and Out of the UniversitiesAppendix C: The Course Curricula and Daily Schedules of High Schools Before and After the Cultural RevolutionSources and Abbreviations Used in NotesNotesFor Further ReadingIndex