TY - BOOK ID - 78340021 TI - Fragile elite PY - 2016 SN - 080479779X 9780804797795 9780804796071 0804796076 9780804797788 0804797781 PB - Stanford, Calif. DB - UniCat KW - College students KW - Education, Higher KW - Higher education KW - Postsecondary education KW - Universities and colleges KW - College life KW - University students KW - Students KW - Social conditions. KW - Family relationships KW - Social aspects KW - Education KW - Beijing da xue KW - Qing hua da xue (Beijing, China) KW - Qinghua da xue (Beijing, China) KW - Tsing Hua University (Beijing, China) KW - Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) KW - Qinghua University (Beijing, China) KW - Chʻing hua ta hsüeh (Beijing, China) KW - Guo li qing hua da xue (Beijing, China) KW - National Tsing Hua University (Beijing, China) KW - Qing hua xue xiao (Beijing, China) KW - Tsing Hua College (Beijing, China) KW - 淸华大学 (北京中囯) KW - 淸华大学 (北京中国) KW - 淸华大学 (北京中國) KW - 淸华大学 (北京) KW - 淸华大学 (北京, China) KW - 淸华大学 (Beijing, China) KW - 淸华大學 (Beijing, China) KW - 淸华華大学 (北京中囯) KW - 淸華大学 (Beijing, China) KW - 淸華大學 (北京中國) KW - 淸華大學 (北京) KW - 淸華大學 (Beijing, China) KW - 淸華大學 (Piking, China) KW - 清华大学 (北京中囯) KW - 清华大学 (北京中国) KW - 清华大学 (北京中國) KW - 清华大学 (北京) KW - 清华大学 (Beijing, China) KW - 清华大學 (Beijing, China) KW - 清華大学 (北京中國) KW - 清華大学 (Beijing, China) KW - 清華大學 (北京中國) KW - 清華大學 (北京) KW - 清華大學 (北京, China) KW - 清華大學 (Beijing, China) KW - Jing shi da xue tang (Beijing, China) KW - Pei-ching ta hsüeh KW - National University of Peking KW - Metropolitan University (Beijing, China) KW - Universität Peking KW - Beijing (China). KW - Guo li Beijing da xue KW - Bei jing da xue KW - Peking University KW - Université de Pékin KW - Beijing University KW - Kokuritsu Pekin Daigaku KW - Pei ta (China) KW - Universität Beijing KW - Pekinger Reichsuniversitaet KW - Pukkyŏng Taehak KW - Begejing Yeke Surġaġuli KW - Universitas Peking KW - 北京大〓 KW - 北京大学 KW - 北京大學 KW - 國立北京大學 KW - Students. KW - S14/0454 KW - S11/0708 KW - S11/0497 KW - S11/0731 KW - China: Education--Education: since 1989 KW - China: Social sciences--Elite KW - China: Social sciences--Society since 1976 KW - China: Social sciences--Childhood, youth UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78340021 AB - 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 Bregnbæk 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. ER -