Word: jiaotong
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...never aspired to be an activist. Studious and soft-spoken, she preferred math textbooks to politics. While her contemporaries marched on Tiananmen Square in 1989, Hu remained at home in central China cramming for college entrance exams. The work paid off. She earned a spot at Shanghai's prestigious Jiaotong University and later a job as a software programmer at one of China's most successful companies in the eastern lakefront city of Hangzhou. It was there that Wang Youcai, a lanky fellow programmer, first asked her for a date. She turned him down. He'd spent four years...
...Chinese contingent included the leaders of Peking University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiaotong, Tsinghua University and Xian Jiaotong...
Chinese university presidents participating are Chen Jia'er of Peking University, Jiang Shusheng of Nanjing University, Pan Yunhe of Zhejiang University, Wang Dazhong of Tsinghua University, Wang Shenghong of Fudan University, Xie Shengwu of Shanghai Jiaotong, Xu Tongmo of Xian Jiaotong...
...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...
...Chinese know that Jiang Zemin was in charge of Shanghai in 1989. It is Jiang who went to Shanghai Jiaotong University, spoke with the students and quoted President Lincoln's famous in English: "We the government, are of the people, for the people and by the people." No army went to Shanghai. It was also known by many Chinese that Jiang Zemin played no role in "ordering the tanks into Tiananmen Square...