ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at an increasing marketization and privatization of education by critically examining Chinese students' choice of the Sunny High International Access Project International Curriculum Program. It discusses out how parental choice of the program reflects the interests and strategies of a burgeoning Chinese elite class in the struggle for legitimation and recognition. Since 2010, the number of urban Chinese high-school students applying to US universities has rapidly grown. High-school education is not compulsory in China. There are two major types of high schools in this post-compulsory education sector—general high schools and vocational high schools. The analysis of parental choice of internationally focused high-schools points out the class interests, struggles, and strategies of new Chinese elite classes. The emergent international high-school curriculum programs are socially produced through the interactions between these dominant interest groups. There are the tensions between these dominant interest groups.
