Performance/Installation

2021-present

A story of mine

A story of millions of Chinese kids

 It seems to be another version of Helicopter Parents in Asia, but it actually has a completely different reason for its formation. Chinese parents are mostly middle class. They are saddled with mortgages, car loans, and the only salary left to support their elders and children. As long as their family suffers a serious illness, they will almost fall from the middle class. Huge social pressure makes them pin their hopes on their children. They put their income into their children's education at all costs, even against their will, and let them participate in all training classes and competitions that can improve their competitiveness. "A 4-year-old child has a vocabulary of about 1,500 English words, which is enough in the United States, but certainly not enough in Haidian, Beijing." The enormous pressure of competition makes the children have no childhood at all. According to a survey conducted by CEPS in the past ten years, Chinese parents' expectations for their children's education are as high as 98.6% that are equal to or higher than their own. As a result, the suicide rate of college students due to chicken babies has increased by 23% in the past ten years. 

Under the deformed social pressure, parents struggling with educational anxiety are victims, and children who grow up under the excessive expectations and expectations packaged by love are also victims. Everyone is a victim, everyone is a bystander, and everyone is a perpetrator. Who else can escape?