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Harvard unveiled its first China office in Shanghai last summer as part of a University push to expand its overseas presence, with expectations of opening additional outposts in Beijing, Mumbai, and Mexico City the following year...
Like the newly established Shanghai office run jointly by the Harvard Business School and the China Fund, its Beijing counterpart would have provided on-site services and a support network for both Harvard faculty and students traveling or working abroad. The office staff would have also arranged interviews and hosted admissions events for prospective students from the area...
William C. Kirby, the Harvard China Fund’s director, said that he intends to expand the existing office in Shanghai before acting on plans for a second office in Beijing. The envisioned Harvard Shanghai Center—a joint venture with the Business School—will be the largest University-wide facility overseas when it opens in 2010, Kirby said...
...idea that's enjoying a resurgence in popularity. Last year, ahead of the Beijing Olympics when China faced renewed criticism over human rights, the British Museum staged exhibitions on the history of the Games in Shanghai and Hong Kong, sending more than 110 invaluable items, including the 2nd century marble statue The Discus Thrower, which the museum had never allowed overseas. And on Feb. 16, the directors of Beijing's Palace Museum and Taipei's National Palace Museum brokered a deal to send Chinese imperial artifacts to Taiwan for the first time in 60 years. In a show scheduled...
...things to do in Shanghai...