Little soldiers : an American boy, a Chinese school and the global race to achieve
Chu, Lenora2017
Books, Manuscripts
In 2009, Lenora Chu, her husband, Rob, and toddler, Rainey, move from Los Angeles to Shanghai, China. The US economy is in the pits while China's seems to be on steroids, and Shanghai's students are about the stun the world by besting peers in nearly seventy countries to grab first place on the PISA global student assessment exam. So when three year-old Rainey is given the opportunity to enroll in Shanghai's most elite public kindergarten, Lenora and Rob grab it. Noticing her rambunctious son's rapid transformation - increasingly disciplined and obedient on the one hand, but anxious and fearful on the other - Lenora is launched into an exploration of what, exactly, is going on behind Shanghai's locked classroom doors and at what potential cost.
Chu, Lenora, author
London : Piatkus, 2017.
x, 347 pages : map (black and white) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Specialized.
9780349411774 (pbk. :)
English
2220775