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...will learn to swing dance, watch the Hasty Pudding show, and attend Cultural Rhythms.Visiting the campus has allowed the students to compare their home institutions with the University. “American students are more active than in China. They express themselves very freely,” said Lydia Lin, a first-year graduate student from Beijing University.The students found Harvard’s House system particularly interesting.“We’re fascinated by the Houses because we don’t have that system in Taiwan,” said Chen, who is organizing the itinerary...
...1950s.The Chinese government’s own attitude seemed ambivalent. Even in the later 1830s, the emperor’s advisers were divided between enforcing prohibition and legalizing, regulating, and taxing opium imports. Only in 1839 did the emperor opt for a strict prohibition, sending the admirable Commissioner Lin to Canton to see to it. Lin ordered the surrender of every last ounce of opium at three days notice, forbade the traders to leave Canton, and surrounded them with armed soldiers. Shortly afterwards the traders and their families had to seek refuge aboard British merchant ships at sea, deprived?...
According to Steve Lin ’08, another one of “The Big Question” organizers, the most popular events in the series have attracted around 50 students each...
...pick topics that people can really draw upon from their personal experience,” Lin said. —Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray@fas.harvard.edu...
...Though Li has rarely returned to her homeland since her departure a decade ago, the best stories in this volume, written in her flawlessly pure and limpid prose, fully capture China's wrenching social changes. In "Extra," Granny Lin finds she has been "honorably retired" from her state-owned garment factory?which means the plant has gone bankrupt and Lin won't be getting her pension. She's lucky enough to find a new job as a maid at one of the posh new private schools sprouting outside Beijing, but it's not long before Lin discovers...