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Jinting Wu presents a richly contextualized picture of education in contemporary rural China with a depth of knowledge and a command of ethnographic methods and appropriate theory that expands the picture beyond the confines of her research site and time. She weaves the many details together with a skill that allows the reader to understand their larger relevance and to not become overwhelmed. At the center of her 'levels of analysis' is the dilemma that rural youth face as they struggle to decide whether or not to seek more education beyond what is compulsory. As Wu demonstrates, such a decision is not entirely-if at all-a decision. - John G. Richardson, Western Washington University Theoretically sophisticated, analytically nuanced, empirically vivid, Fabricating an Educational Miracle could be the finest ethnography of education since Philip Jackson's 1968 Life in Classrooms established the genre. Curriculum reform is no abstraction here: we become intimate with its unintended cultural and economic consequences as these are lived by actually existing individuals inhabiting a temporally heterogeneous now. Wu's accomplishment is exceptional; it is profound. - William F. Pinar, University of British Columbia

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Jinting Wu is Assistant Professor of Education Policy at the University of Macau.

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