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Recently, China has introduced significant fees for college entrance, which has some of the country’s Communists worried. They wonder whether China is going the American way. The following is a stylized version of a conversation the author had with a Chinese social scientist who was also a member of the Chinese communist party.
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Meyer, HD. (2013). Reasoning about Fairness in Access to Higher Education. In: Meyer, HD., John, E.P.S., Chankseliani, M., Uribe, L. (eds) Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-230-3_2
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