Study Gods. How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition by Yi-Lin Chiang

Abstract

Based on an ethnography and interviews with 28 socioeconomically elite students, their parents and their teachers in Beijing over a period of 7 years (2012–2019), Yi-Lin Chiang, in the present book, describes four types of students: ‘study gods’ (xueshen), ‘studyholics’ (xueba), ‘underachievers’ (xuezha), and ‘losers’ (xueruo). She shows how 'study gods' and 'studyholics' are important factors in status reproduction on a global scale.

《學神：中國精英教育現場一手觀察》一書的研究對像是二十八位來自北京社會經濟精英階層的學生、家長和老師。書中資料來源於薑以琳2012年至2019年七年間積累的民族志研究和訪談記錄。作者在書中描述了四種類型的學生：“學神”、“學霸”、“學渣”和“學弱”，探討“學神”和“學霸”如何為全球競爭做準備，如何在競爭中勝出，從而使自己始終處於高位。