Unlike many Chinese people of her generation, Zhu Xiangjuan does not believe in saving money, nor does she like formal schooling.
Pouring tea in her rustic bookshop in Dali, in south-west China’s Yunnan province, the 40-something mother of one explains that she sends her child to a home-schooling group instead where they learn “naturally” by reading Confucian tomes.
“The younger children will follow the older ones, the older ones will follow their parents, it will come naturally,” she said, smiling disarmingly.
Zhu’s views might be radical for China, which has one of the world’s…
