May 30, 2003

China's 'Harvard Girl'

By JEN LIN-LIU

A college student has become an example for a new style of raising children

Yiting Liu admits she ditches classes occasionally. While she is discussing her courseload in Harvard Square over one of those ultrapopular whipped, iced-coffee drinks, she describes one of her classes: "boring." She rolls her big brown eyes, framed behind a pair of dark-framed plastic glasses, and adds, "Unless I have questions, it's not very helpful to go to class."

To students at American colleges,

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