Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five minutes, Jiang read from a prepared text in Chinese in an elaborately decorated marble hall of the Main Building at Drexel. With a plush, specially rolled-out red carpet underneath Jiang's feet and gold and blue Drexel banners in English and Chinese characters draping the hallways, Drexel was clothed to the hilt. Painters put the fin- ishing touches on doors just hours before the Secret Service would escort Jiang through. Behind the president hung two enormous flags, each three stories long, of the United States and the People's Republic of China...
Sitting between his interpreter and Drexel University President Constantine Papadakis, Jiang listened to brief introductions from Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, who both highlighted the economic ties between their constituencies and China...
Jiang first expressed his happiness at seeing so many Chinese students greet him at Drexel. He pledged to support the vast contingent of students from China studying in the United States, which he said has numbered more than 100,000 over the last decade...
Jiang was also pleased to point out the inauguration of the Sun Yat Sen lectures at Drexel, which will be aimed at educating Drexel students about China's past, present and future. Sun Yat Sen, regarded as the father of modern China by mainland Chinese and Taiwanese alike, inspired the revolution that overthrew the Qing dynasty...
...halting words, Jiang sincerely thanked the president and professors who "educated my son and gave him technical lessons." He then poked fun at himself; Jiang only holds a bachelor's degree from Jiaotong University in Shanghai, while his son earned a doctorate. One of the draws of visiting Drexel and Philadelphia was the chance to see an old college classmate, who later taught Jiang's son at Drexel...