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...General Secretary. The former hydraulic engineer's sense of China's future is rooted in his own experiences. Though he came from a moderately prosperous family of tea merchants, Hu was thrust into the turmoil of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution soon after he graduated from Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University in 1964. Along with millions of others, he was sent to the countryside to "learn from the masses." After a year spent carrying bricks at a construction site in Guizhou province, Hu began a gradual rise through the ranks...
...isolation into which the country was plunged after the bloody suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen protests. "A successful Games would mean that China is accepted by the international community and has become a major world power," says Yan Xuetong, who heads the Institute of International Studies at Beijing's Tsinghua University...
...keep pushing Khartoum. "We say to the Chinese, 'We know you think this is your moment to step onto the world stage, but we are going to rain on your parade,'" Reeves says. "They know more pressure is coming and are afraid." In the case of Darfur, says Tsinghua's Yan, "yes, the pressure worked." But he is quick to add that just because Western NGOs have had one success, they should not assume they will have another. China remains wedded to the belief that outside forces should not be allowed to dictate what a nation thinks...
...something about it, and in 2000 Shanghai University's glass studio was launched. It was headed by Zhuang Xiaowei, who had just returned from a two-year M.A. at Wolverhampton. That same year, another professor, Wang Jianzhong, set up undergraduate and graduate glass programs at Beijing's Tsinghua University, with Wolverhampton's assistance. Together, these two courses and their graduates formed the roots of Chinese contemporary glass art. It is starting to flower today as one of the most exciting genres in the world's fastest-growing arts scene...
...Vallely, part of a delegation of U.S. educators who met with Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet during his recent visit to the U.S., says Vietnam needs a world-class flagship school - the equivalent of Tsinghua University in China or India's Institutes of Technology. Existing schools, he says, need autonomy to build their own curriculum and compete for students. "These kids who do make the cut and go to school are very smart," Vallely says. "They're just not getting much of an education when they get there." If that doesn't change, Vietnam may wind up cheating itself...