‘Heartbroken’ woman in China finds school admission letter father hid 17 years ago that led her to abandon education for factory work

Woman finds admission letter to her ‘dream school’ while sorting through old photos and confronts father who says fees were too high. Father lambasted online for giving up future of daughter who was promising athlete at the time. — SCMP

A woman in China who discovered her secondary school admission letter 17 years after her father concealed it, which ended her schooling, has renewed scrutiny on China’s tradition of parents preferring boys.

Wang Yanxia, 32, accidentally found the upper secondary school admission letter hidden at her parents’ home while sorting through her childhood photos, she revealed in a post on Douyin earlier this month.