“The most important thing is still opportunity. In the U.S., there are so many chances in your life. In China, this is almost the only opportunity. So that's why people work so hard on it.”

…come up with the set of questions for each year's exam. And there are 10 different tests in order to prevent cheating. They don't know which one they can use even. That's why you need to be really flexible in your mind to solve these questions really fast. Those tests are much harder than AP tests.

There's a reason the Chinese have a high-stakes exam and the United States doesn't. It reflects something deep in each society. What is that?

Thanks to Hong Bin for joining us. If you missed our previous podcast, it was AI and Human Connections. Our first speaker was Allison Pugh, a professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins, and the author of a new book entitled The Last Human Job: Seeing Each Other in an Age of Automation. Our second…