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Mourning of an education influencer in China: The grief was a quiet revolt
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The public mourning of Mr Zhang Xuefeng's death was by no means an organised protest, but it carried an unmistakable social charge.
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Li Yuan
BEIJING - Mr Zhang Xuefeng became famous in China for telling students and their parents what few educators would: which majors were useless, which careers were dead ends and which dreams ordinary families could not afford.
“Knock out your children if they want to study journalism,” he famously said.
