In this episode, the NRCEM (co-hosts Dr Cora Xu and Miss Zhiyun Lisa Bian) spoke with Dr Susanne Bregnbæk (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) about her impactful book: Fragile Elite: The Dilemmas of China's Top University Students' published by Stanford University Press. Susanne introduced her destined 'fate' to research China and how she chanced upon this important research topic when she was in China. She also shared deeply emotional anecdotes during her fieldwork and the incredible impacts of her book on contemporary Chinese young people which she discovered by chance.