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Friday, March 6th, 2009:: when people ask me what China is like, I inevitably end up touching on how important education is to the Chinese. It really is recession proof. I usually talk a little bit about the imperial examination system (科举) and its eventual evolution into the modern national examination system (高考). It is the single democratizing factor for all 1.3+ billion Chinese -– the one way that anyone could theoretically study his or her way to the top.
In the future, I am just going to show them the below picture. If you look closely, you can see two young boys riding a zipline over a river in Yunnan as part of their daily commute to school. Talk about a surefire way to wake yourself up for morning classes. //
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