Table of Contents

1. More Praise for Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?
2. Title page
3. Copyright page
4. Dedication
5. About the Author
6. Acknowledgments
7. Introduction: Fatal Attraction: America's Suicidal Quest for Educational Excellence
   1. Notes
8. 1: Fooling China, Fooling the World: Illusions of Excellence
   1. “China for a Day”
   2. “The Beijing Consensus”
   3. “Surpassing Shanghai”
   4. “Be Afraid of the Friends Who Flatter You”
   5. “A Very Large Gap”
   6. Fatal Attraction: The Real China Threat
   7. Notes
9. 2: The Emperors' Game: A Perfect Machine for Homogenization
   1. The Fifth Great Invention
   2. The Irony of Great Inventions
   3. A Clever Ploy of Social Control
   4. Change without Difference
   5. Notes
10. 3: Governance without Governing: The Retreat of Authoritarianism and China's Economic Boom
    1. The Peasants Who Saved China
    2. The First Entrepreneurs
    3. Let It Be (or Governance without Interference)
    4. The Coke Battle
    5. Déjà Vu?
    6. Notes
11. 4: Hesitant Learner: The Struggle of Halfway Westernization
    1. A Grand Experiment
    2. Wishful Thinking
    3. Self-Strengthening Movement Version 2.0
    4. Harmony and Innovation
    5. Notes
12. 5: Fooling the Emperor: The Truth about China's Capacity for Innovation
    1. The Emperor's New Wishes
    2. The Miracle Makers
    3. Publish or Perish
    4. It Pays to Publish
    5. A Chinese Heart
    6. More Inventions Than Young Edison
    7. Little Cleverness and Junk Papers
    8. By Design
    9. The Emperor Is Fooled
    10. Notes
13. 6: Hell to Heaven: The Making of the World's Best and Worst Education
    1. One Heaven
    2. One Small Heaven
    3. One Gatekeeper to the One Small Heaven
    4. The Hell to Heaven
    5. Breaking the Spell
    6. Notes
14. 7: The Witch That Cannot Be Killed: Educational Reforms and Setbacks
    1. The Disaster of Mao's Revolution against Testing
    2. Back to “Naked” Tests
    3. The Witch That Cannot Be Killed
    4. Another Witch That Refuses to Be Killed
    5. The Prisoner's Dilemma
    6. The Tragedy of the Commons
    7. Bread and Butterfly
    8. Notes
15. 8: The Naked Emperor: Chinese Lessons for What Not to Do
    1. Illusions of Excellence and Equity
    2. Romanticized Misery
    3. Glorified Authoritarianism
    4. Why Not Emulate Shanghai?
    5. Notes
16. Bibliography
17. Index
18. End User License Agreement

List of Illustrations

1. Figure 1.1    Percentage of Americans Who Are Concerned about China's Military and Economic Strength
   Source:  “US Public, Experts Differ on China Policies,” Pew Research Center, Washington, DC. September 18, 2012, http://www.pewglobal.org/files/2012/09/US-Public-and-Elite-Report-FINAL-FOR-PRINT-September-18-2012.pdf. Reprinted with permission.
2. Figure 1.2    What Worries Americans the Most about China's Economy
   Source:  “US Public, Experts Differ on China Policies,” Pew Research Center, Washington, DC. September 18, 2012, http://www.pewglobal.org/files/2012/09/US-Public-and-Elite-Report-FINAL-FOR-PRINT-September-18-2012.pdf. Reprinted with permission.

Guide

1. Cover
2. Table of Contents
3. Start Reading
4. CHAPTER 1
5. Index