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...Harvard secures the wild-card berth, they will face strong competition from other countries. The past eight world champions have all come from foreign universities, including Saratov State University in Russia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, and Warsaw University in Poland...
...sharp satire on cuisine and corruption in contemporary China. The Banquet Bug, which won enthusiastic reviews in the U.S. this summer, is now being published in Britain with greater fanfare and a more appetizing title, The Uninvited. It is the first book written in English by Yan, a Shanghai-born novelist (The Lost Daughter of Happiness) whose stories inspired director Joan Chen's 1998 art-house hit Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl. Yan emigrated to the U.S. after the 1989 Beijing crackdown and now lives in San Francisco, where she is a leading figure in China's post-Tiananmen...
...TurnItIn’s client list also includes Georgetown, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, more than a dozen other universities, as well as educational institutions in Australia, Canada, Egypt, Lebanon, New Zealand, Shanghai, and the U.K. Several U.S. high schools have also signed...
Some Chinese are so spooked by the prospect of divorce that they avoid marriage altogether. Last year 8.23 million couples wed nationwide, 441,000 fewer than in 2004. Those that do get hitched aren't shy about specifying exactly what they want. "For young women in Shanghai, one of their main requirements in marriage is a man who has his own apartment, car and some savings," says marriage counselor Shu. But a fat bank account alone doesn't ensure a happy marriage. "In China today, materialism is being pursued at the expense of traditional values like love," frets Xia Xueluan...
...press release. “Harvard already has significant strengths in the study of China in Cambridge—in our departments and schools as well as in our centers, such as the Fairbank and Asia centers,” Kirby wrote in an e-mail from Shanghai yesterday. “We should like to build on these as we build strengths in other areas across the University.” “Not only does China have the world’s fastest growing economy, it has, by far, the fastest expanding system of higher education...