Chinese student says family only bought TV recently after her acceptance to top university
Strict parents clamp down on daughter’s mobile phone use, allow just 10 minutes a day on chat app, must finish homework before bed
A Chinese secondary school graduate has told how her family only bought a television after she was accepted by the country’s top Peking University, sparking a heated online debate over parenting.
Tian Chang is a senior secondary school student at Zhengzhou Foreign Language School, in central China’s Henan province.
She was recently recommended for admission to Peking University’s Burmese language programme, months ahead of this year’s gaokao, or national college entrance examination, in June.
This means liberation from the stressful business of college entrance examination preparations earlier.
In an interview with Henan TV, she said her family celebrated by buying their first ever television.
Tian said her parents did not let her play with phones when she was little, even though she owned her own smartphone.