Dream of a disillusioned genius

Author: (Singapore) Fang Guixiang
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Publishing Date: 2000-04-01
Features: This is a story worth reading and reflecting on for all students, teachers, and parents. Yu Huiying—a "genius girl" who grew up in her mother's meticulously woven "dream of genius," a top elite shaped by the "modern" education system—due to emotional and psychological immaturity, experienced psychological imbalance during her time abroad, and eventually took the irreversible path of murder and suicide. This work, newly published in Singapore, has been reprinted five times in just eight months and has become a sensation both inside and outside Singaporean campuses.