Making meritocracy : lessons from China and India, from antiquity to the present /
"Political Theologies of Justice: Meritocratic Values from a Global Perspective Michael Puett In fourth century BCE China, a religious revolutionary named Mozi emerged. In opposition to much of the religious practices and assumptions of the time, Mozi announced that Heaven, the highest god, was...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi
- IPhilosophical
- 1. Political Theologies of Justice: Meritocratic Values from a Global Perspective
- Michael Puett
- 2. Merit in the Mirror of Democracy: Caste and Affirmative Action in India
- Ashutosh Varshney
- 3. Political Meritocracy in China: The Ideal vs. the Reality
- Daniel A. Bell
- IIHistorical
- 4. Locating Meritocracy in Early Modern Asia: Qing China and Mughal India
- Sudev Sheth and Lawrence L. C. Zhang
- 5. Meritocratic Empires? South Asia ca. 1600-1947
- Sumit Guha
- 6. Meritocracy and the Making of the Chinese Academe Redux, 1912-1952
- James Z. Lee, Bamboo Yunzhu Ren, and Chen Liang
- IIIContemporary
- 7. The Origins and Effects of Affirmative Action Policies in India
- Ashwini Deshpande
- 8. Merit and Caste at Elite Institutions: The Case of the IIT
- Ajantha Subramanian
- 9. The National College Entrance Examination and the Myth of Meritocracy in Post-Mao China
- Zachary M. Howlett
- IVProspective
- 10. The Singaporean Meritocracy: Theory, Practice, and Policy Implications
- Vincent Chua, Randall Morck, and Bernard Yeung
- 11. The Merits and Limits of China's Modern Universities
- William C. Kirby
- 12. Reimagining Merit in India: Cognition and Affirmative Action
- D. Shyam Babu, Chandra Bhan Prasad, and Devesh Kapur
- 13. Meritocracy Enabled by Technology, Grounded in Science
- Varun Aggarwal
- Afterword
- Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi
- Bibliography
- Index