China Mourned an Education Influencer. The Grief Was a Quiet Revolt.
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Zhang Xuefeng helped people navigate the country’s unforgiving higher education system. The public outpouring after his death was a quiet rebuke to the punishing process.
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In this environment, choosing the right major has become increasingly important, said Wang, a college admissions consultant in northern Hebei Province. In many provinces, families have less than two weeks between getting the results of the exam and the deadline to apply to college. In that time, they need to make sense of hundreds of majors, universities and career paths. Even educated parents often feel overwhelmed by the decisions. Mr. Zhang’s appeal, Wang said, lay in making an opaque system feel interpretable.
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