WhileKorea pushes top talent to medicine, China backs engineering career

Jiang Qiaoxi, a character in the Chinese drama “Our Generation,” is a math prodigy. His mother is determined to have him win the Math Olympiad and enter Peking University or Tsinghua University. To that end, she controls not only his studies but also his private life and romantic relationships. She even sends him to a residential training camp for Math Olympiad contestants. If the hit Korean drama “SKY Castle” captured the country’s obsession with medical school, this Chinese drama offers a glimpse of China’s admiration for engineering. Zhang Linghe, the actor who plays Jiang, faced similarly strict guidance from his own mother during his school years. Zhang, who is tall, fair-skinned and strikingly handsome, has an unexpected academic background. He studied electrical engineering at Nanjing Normal University. Zhang, now a global star following the success of “Pursuit of Jade,” told the People’s Daily that Jiang’s school days resembled his own. Even when he came home with a score of 98, he said, he was scolded because it was not 100. He was constantly compared withWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times