Word: vanness
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While Stein experienced the nomadic way of life in inner Mongolia, Tsering J. van der Kuijp ’12 encountered the upper echelons of Chinese society in the metropolitan setting of Beijing...
...August, van der Kuijp was taken to a location called “the academy,” a training facility for COFCO, one of China’s largest agricultural trading companies, where he worked as an intern...
...banquet that night, the employees of the company would constantly toast the executives, an exchange that taught van der Kuijip a lesson on Chinese table manners...
...tell who the “big cheese” of the table is, van der Kuijp says, by noting how lower level employees keep the brim of their glasses below that of their superior?...
...according to Van Vuuren, The Lab’s uniquely independent position may work either for or against its final reevaluation at the end of the three-year experimentation period...