{"product_id":"9781438460383","title":"Fabricating an Educational Miracle: Compulsory Schooling Meets Ethnic Rural Development in Southwest China","description":"\u003ci\u003eIllustrates the changing significance of what it means to be educated, rural, and ethnic in Southwest China.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn today’s China, education is translated into both acute social desires and profound disenchantment. Shanghai’s stellar performance in the recent Program for International Student Assessment paints a celebratory image of educational success yet tells only a partial story. For many in rural China who are schooled yet prepared only for factory sweatshops, education remains an elusive ideal and offers a hollowed promise of social mobility. \u003ci\u003eFabricating an Educational Miracle\u003c\/i\u003e laces together complex accounts of how compulsory education produces dilemmas and possibilities in village schools in Southwest China. Drawing from interviews, participant observations, oral history, and archival research in a Miao and a Dong village-town in Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, this book examines the manifold and contradictory agendas that have captured rural ethnic schooling at a crossroads.","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180739281136,"sku":"9781438460383","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781438460383_p0.jpg?v=1763754468","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781438460383","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}