education, gaokao exam, societal pressure

High-Achieving Student Becomes Homeless

In 2006 in Jianning County of Fujian Province, a high-achieving student in high school named Xiaoye (a pseudonym) was admitted to Zhejiang University, one of China’s most prestigious and selective schools of higher education. The young man’s parents were very proud when they got the news, but in his second year of college during the ...

Armin Auctor

Desks and chairs in an empty classroom.