Why China Is Requiring Ninth Graders to Read ‘Jane Eyre’ NYT - World By: Yan Zhuang and Li You 28 September 2026 at 05:58 The Victorian heroine has long been celebrated in China for her independence and insistence on equality. © Zhu Zhenqiang/VCG, via Getty ImagesA woman reads at a bookstore in Beijing in August. “Jane Eyre” has found generations of readers in China since it was first translated into Chinese a century ago.
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