China’s famous ‘Harvard girl’ now finance professional with affluent US lifestyle, ignites debate about definition of success
- In 1999, Liu Yiting won Harvard scholarship, became China role model
- Parents penned 2 million bestseller, parenting style criticised, rejected
China’s famous “Harvard girl”, who became a national sensation more than two decades ago when she won a full scholarship to the prestigious United States university, is back in the spotlight.
Fresh details have emerged on mainland social media of Liu Yiting’s life as a financial professional in the US, sparking a heated debate about the definition of success.
For a long time, 43-year-old Liu was the role model many parents in China used for their children to aspire to.
In 1999, after she graduated from the esteemed Chengdu Foreign Languages School in southwestern China’s Sichuan province, she was accepted into Harvard University to study applied mathematics and economics on a full scholarship.
Ivy League universities were known about in China, but few undergraduate students chose to study there. Many did not even know it was an option.