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In 2001, a book called Harvard Girl: Yiting Liu
became an overnight sensation in China. Written by her parents, it
tells the story of then sophomore Liu Yiting’s unusual upbringing as a
future Harvard student, which began when she was only fifteen days old
and involved swimming long distances and holding ice cubes in her bare
hand to toughen her up. By 2006 the book had sold 1.87 million copies.The
autobiographies of successful Harvard applicants are also making a
splash in Korea, where NaNa Keum (a Harvard student and Miss Korea
2003) has published her guide to admissions success “Everyone Can Do
It” and her study guide “NaNa Keum’s Study Diary”. Won Hee Park,
another Korean student at Harvard, has had a hit with his “Nine Points
for Studying, Ten Points for Determination”, which sold 50,000 copies
in the first ten days.
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