November 25, 2005
Campus Life Proves Difficult for China's 'Little Emperors'
Pampered at home, students rebel against squalid dorms and limits on their freedom
The 20-year-old Peking University sophomore sat down at her computer one day in late April and posted a poem on a university Internet bulletin board. She then walked to the top of a university building and leapt to her death. Her family later found the poem on the university Web site:
I Made a List
Put reasons to live on the left side
Reasons to die on the right
I wrote many
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