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China’s Fudan University in Shanghai has purchased 6,357 different textbooks from Harvard, ranging from all subjects and departments, and spending more than $200,000 over the past two years. In a phone interview yesterday, Zeng F. Qin, Director of Fudan University Library, described conceiving of the idea with colleague Shen H. Wang to acquire Harvard textbooks in 2002. The first purchase of 5,620 books used in Harvard undergraduate classes was made in 2003. This year, Qin said there was an additional purchase of 737 books from the law and medical schools. Fudan University made...
While traveling abroad, I found that the approaches to birth control vary from country to country. Family-planning classes at Fudan University in Shanghai are in the department of economics because the need to feed and shelter families has become an acute financial problem for the Chinese. Turkey assigns its birth control clinics to the Department of Labor, believing that a lower birth rate will mean fewer unemployed in future generations. The Egyptian government includes family planning in its Department of Family Health. Jules F. Rosenbaum Houston...
Today he is China's leading voice for gay rights. Zhou helped start a hotline for "sexual minorities" in his native Shanghai in 2003, and he teaches China's first graduate-school class on homosexuality and social science at Fudan University. Lately he has taken on the issue of AIDS, successfully lobbying the Ministry of Health not to bar HIV-positive people from government jobs. He is collecting testimony from HIV patients and legal experts to urge Shanghai's health department to change rules that he says discriminate against people with the virus...
...Shen Dingli, a professor of international affairs at Shanghai's Fudan University, thinks Beijing "didn't expect this reaction" to the antisecession law, even though a top aide to E.U. foreign-policy czar Javier Solana says European ministers warned their Chinese counterparts it would boomerang. Solana's aide says "nobody's closed the door" on lifting the ban, but admits "the tonality has really changed...
...intense pressure from Washington - which fears it might one day be on the receiving end of high-tech weapons in the Taiwan Strait - led several E.U. members to sidle away from a deal to lift the embargo by June. Shen Dingli, a professor of international affairs at Shanghai's Fudan University, thinks Beijing "didn't expect this reaction" to the antisecession law, even though a top aide to E.U. foreign-policy czar Javier Solana says European ministers warned their Chinese counterparts it would boomerang. Solana's aide says "nobody's closed the door" on lifting the ban, but admits...