I graduated from one of Shanghai’s better-known high schools after taking gaokao last year. Wang’s vision at AHSPU is a lot like university, especially the original readings part. I wish I had these instead of exercise books full of fill-in-the-blanks but admittedly, without them I won’t be in the university I’m in today. Big cynical moment.

But I won’t call it a bottom-up movement. Wang is an NPC member, the high school is affiliated to PKU; this all sounds pretty privileged. As such I find it more like a middle-up thing. And yeah, bummer that it failed.

Also imagine how I feel when I chewed through an article in my second language when I realized the piece was a translation