In fact, there are still many overseas students who have not returned to China like Liu Yiting. What would you say next? Genius girl? Tian Xiaofei is an alumnus of Liu Yiting University. She/Kloc-was admitted to Peking University at the age of 0/3 and became a doctor at Harvard at the age of 27. After returning from school, she did not return to China, but married a 53-year-old white man.
Tian Xiaofei was born in 197 1. He was born in Harbin and grew up in Tianjin. His father Tian Shishan is the vice chairman of Tianjin Writers Association. He was inseparable from literature all his life. Tian Xiaofei inherited his father's literary genes, and he only likes books.
She has been dealing with words since she was four years old. She has written poetry this year and published a collection of poems at the age of seven. Everyone in Tianjin knows that there is a child prodigy like Tian Xiaofei, which is even more unexpected. 13 years old, directly admitted to Peking University from middle school, studying British and American literature at Peking University.
1988, the 90th anniversary of Peking University. /kloc-Tian Xiaofei, a 0/6-year-old junior, wrote Thirteen Opportunities to celebrate the anniversary. This article tells the story of her happy two years in Peking University, and was later included in the middle school Chinese textbook published by Jiangsu Education Publishing House. Shortly after writing this anniversary article, Tian Xiaofei went to the United States to study abroad, and graduated from Harvard University in June 1998 with a doctorate in literature, becoming the youngest doctor at Harvard.
At that time, college students in China were lucky, and Harvard graduates were more precious than gold bumps. The country urgently needs such talents to build the motherland. While everyone was eagerly looking forward to her return to China, Tian Xiaofei, 28, turned and married an American who was 25 years older than her. This American is Stephen Owen, her doctoral supervisor and dean. Stephen gave himself a Chinese name because he loved China literature? Yuwen Suoan? .
Stephen was moved by Tian Xiaofei's literary talent, and Tian Xiaofei proposed directly after graduation. At that time, Tian Xiaofei had another suitor, who rejected Stephen, but Stephen didn't waver at all, and wrote a poem to analyze his own advantages and disadvantages. Tian Xiaofei saw Stephen's sincerity in the poem and agreed to his proposal.
Facing 53-year-old Stephen, Tian Xiaofei's family and friends strongly opposed her love affair with Stephen. However, Tian Xiaofei insisted on marrying Stephen. He could not do the ideological work of his family all his life, so his family had to agree.
1999 On New Year's Day, Tian Xiaofei and Stephen held a simple wedding in new york and became a couple. ? Marry a chicken and follow a dog? After Tian Xiaofei and Stephen got married, they got the green card that others dreamed of, changed their nationality, went to the United States and stayed in the United States to work and live.
In 2006, she was a professor at Harvard University, teaching Americans to learn China's poems. Stephen is also her loyal listener, and with the help of Tian Xiaofei, she won the Han and Tang Literature Prize in 2008.
Tian Xiaofei is no longer young now. He is 49 years old and has obvious white hair. Stephen is even older. He is a 74-year-old man Seeing that they are still living happily together, Tian Xiaofei's parents have no objection to their relationship. When Tian Xiaofei is free, he will occasionally go back to China to sign new books.