Zhong Fangrong speaks during an interview with Xinhua in Leiyang, central China's Hunan Province, Aug. 4, 2020. [Xinhua/Bai Tiantian]
A rural Chinese student and top performer in the college entrance exams has grasped national headlines by choosing to study archaeology, defying a long-held stereotype that the major, and humanities in general, are not meant for social ladder climbers.