gaokao

www.chengduliving.com — The Gaokao is the academic guantlet that all college-bound Chinese youth pass through on their journey to higher education. Learn more about what this hugely important day is like by hearing about it from someone who took the exam in 2010. There’s photos, too!

www.gokunming.com — An armless high school student who used his feet to take the Chinese university entrance exam and earned the top score in Kunming's Yiliang County is being recognized as one of the most inspirational stories of this year's exam.

www.chinahush.com — Recently this music video named “The whole world is laughing at China being stupid” (全世界都在笑中国傻) has been circulating on the Chinese internet. Initially this music video was “officially approved” by the Chinese government, however netizens strongly reacted to the bitter sarcasm of the lyrics which associated with China’s current situation.

mpettis.com — MPettis discusses unusually low turnout for the Gaokao (could so many unemployed university students be putting off a few borderline exam takers) and worries over the China banking stimulus, and future debt overhang at fiscal and municipal (rather than headline central) levels.