China’s College Entry Test, Gao Kao, Is National Obsession - NYTimes.com

This article is a cautionary tale: Don’t send a white person to do a Chinese person’s job. Another horrible/pointless article about China. A representative example:

China may be changing at head-twirling speed, but the ritual of the gao kao (pronounced gow kow) remains as immutable as chopsticks. One Chinese saying compares the exam to a stampede of “a thousand soldiers and 10 horses across a single log bridge.”