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