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...more complicated than that, as Li is the first to admit. The fact is, Baidu's success resembles a typically American success story. Li was born in an impoverished town about 200 miles (320 km) from Beijing, and as a young man was smart enough to get into Beida, as the Chinese call Peking University. Like so many students of that era - just after the government's assault on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square - he wanted to go to graduate school in the U.S. "Back then," he has said, "China was a depressing place." Li applied to 20 universities with computer...
...budget deficits - or how much Treasury debt China now buys - that made Tim Geithner blush in Beijing this morning. During his maiden visit to China as U.S. Treasury Secretary, Geithner visited Peking University to give a speech and answer a series of probing questions from students. The school - "Beida," as the Chinese call it - is probably the country's premier university, and in 1981, after his sophomore year at Dartmouth, Geithner did an eight-week program in Mandarin there. After his speech today, one of his old teachers produced a photo of Geithner from that summer: it showed the future...
...disclose his full name, picked up online gaming almost as soon as he got into the prestigious Tsinghua University. He says he became so obsessed that he skipped all his classes for an entire semester and eventually received academic warnings from the school. As many as 30 students from Beida and Tsinghua - China's most storied universities - have been to the camp, says Tao, and it's becoming an increasing trend among students from other top schools. "Our kids are all very special and intelligent," says the PLA colonel. "It's only normal for people to make detours when they...
...Julian” Han ’07, who was born and raised in Shanghai. Han noted that Fudan is a good school with a strong emphasis on education, and is ranked among the top three universities in mainland China, along with Beijing’s Beida and Qinghua Universities. But he said Fudan was “not yet at the level of Harvard. I think it’s probably at the level of Yale in the U.S.” Megan E. Camm ’07, who participated in the Harvard-China Summer Exchange...
...group was backed by the Office of University President Lawrence H. Summers, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Asia Center and the Center for International Development, among others, said Xu. A group of students from Beida is expected to return the visit next fall...