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This chapter links historical and sociological accounts from previous two chapters on meritocracy to understand educational expansion and selection in China. Three pillars of meritocracy include equality of opportunities, the fair conditions of selection and rewards by merit, and former two attributes are particularly concerned with education-based meritocracy. To assess the extent to which an education system is meritocratic, it is necessary to examine the distribution of educational opportunities and its selection policy.
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Liu, Y. (2016). Education and Social Harmony During China’s Great Transformation. In: Higher Education, Meritocracy and Inequality in China. Higher Education in Asia: Quality, Excellence and Governance. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1588-5_4
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