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Based on the data and findings of the China College Student Survey (CCSS), the chapter discusses the college experiences of Chinese students and their academic preparation of getting into higher education institutions. Comparing the data with that of American students drawn from NSSE (National Survey of Student Engagement), the author examines the college students’ academic experiences, their interaction with faculty members, and job-related and job-hunting experiences in the period of mass education now a day in china. Once played a key role in social selection and functioned as a channel for grass-root to achieve social upward mobility, Chinese higher education is now integrated into a market based society as a means of labor production.
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Educational Statistics Yearbook of China 2010, Beijing: People’s Educational Press (September of 2011). p23.
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Chinese government released a document entitled ‘Action Plan to Accelerate the Rise-up of Central China’ in September 23 of 2009, in which the phenomenon of ‘Central Fall’ was defined and illustrated.
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Luo, Y. (2015). Learning Ants: A Portrait of Chinese College Students in Mass Higher Education. In: Shin, J., Postiglione, G., Huang, F. (eds) Mass Higher Education Development in East Asia. Knowledge Studies in Higher Education, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12673-9_11
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