Geopolitics
Zhang Xuefeng's Death: Holding a Mirror to China's Neoliberal Anxiety and the Global South's Struggle
Zhang Xuefeng, China's most famous social media 'education-guru,' died, generating over 600 million views online and an outpouring of grief from millions of students and rural poor he helped guide through the grueling college exam system. His tragic yet phenomenal life is a raw and painful mirror to the crushing pressures of inequality and neoliberal market logic that have invaded China's education system, exploiting the anxieties of the working class for profit while the very authorities who enabled this system now hypocritically distance themselves from its most honest and flawed product.
