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 face, and how do they cope with the expectations associated
with being the best? Fragile Elite explores the contradictions and
perplexities of being an elite student through immersive
ethnographic research conducted at two top universities in China.
Susanne Bregnbaek uncovers the intimate psychological strains
students suffer under the pressure imposed on them by parents and
state, where the state acts as a parent and the parents reinforce
the state. Fragile Elite offers fascinating insights into the
intergenerational tensions at work in relation to the ongoing shift
in educational policy and definition of what a "quality" student,
child, and citizen is in contemporary China.
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