Please join James Lee's talk on November 1, 2024, in person or online. In this event, Dr. Lee will compare the 5,277 academicians and ‘experts’ elected or selected by the Chinese Academies of Science and Engineering and the Chinese Association of Science and Technology at the apex of the Chinese academe, with 357,833 elite Chinese university students at the base to show that, in contrast to well-known findings for elite education in France and recent findings for elite students, faculty, and intellectuals in the United States, the distinctive defining feature of the Chinese academe over the last century is the salient proportion of top students and scholars from diverse disadvantaged backgrounds. His research documents two distinct revolutions in the Chinese academe. First, beginning in 1952, a significant proportion of elite university students came from non-elite backgrounds which was a sharp contrast to before. Second, especially after 1977, in contrast to elite university students of disadvantaged background who are increasingly urban, Chinese academicians and experts increasingly come from rural disadvantaged backgrounds.
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