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Preparing for this year's studies has not been easy. Removed from the mainstream of Western thought for most of the last ten years, Zhao was forced to start from ground zero. Working with Daniel Bell, professor of Sociology, Zhao brought himself up to date by reading, among others, de Tocqueville's classic study, Democracy in America. His curriculum reads like a course of study in The Modern Western World: Bell's own Sociology 102, "Societal Analysis," Stanley Hoffmann's Government 185, "The United States in World Affairs," and Government 148, "American Political Development" with Samuel Huntington. A voracious reader...
...desk in Zhao's living room sits an open copy of Daniel Bell's The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. It has been almost 30 years since Zhao has been a student of economics, 30 years since he has been in Cambridge. The last time around, he studied as a graduate student, passed his general examinations and was preparing to write a dissertation on "the gestation period of investment." But in December 1950, several months after the Korean War broke out, Zhao decided to return home...
Three decades later to the month, Zhao once again attends lectures in Harvard Yard. Things are different, he says, looking out the window of his apartment in search of a memory of Cambridge in the late '40s. They use more mathematics in economics classes, and the noise in the Square is much louder. And Zhao is no longer studying for a degree. As a member of this year's class at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and the first fellow from the People's Republic, he's come to Harvard for a crash course in the modern world...
...year of education and general socializing--goes through a reeducation process of sorts. Away from the frenetic pace of the newsroom--and not permitted to engage in commercial work--the fellow studies a field that he is interested in and that might some day help his own career. For Zhao, whose work includes editing a monthly periodical of translations from the Western press (circulated to a limited number of Chinese officials) and writing a column about the current scene in the United States, that field has been rather broad. "I want to learn more about the United States--politics, government...
...year-old Zhao, academic discussions about the interplay of politics and economics are a great leap from writing articles such as "China's Third Steel Base Starts Producing." Since his first visit to the United States--he arrived on a slow boat from China with $25 in his pocket--Zhao has written about everything from the "Three Anti's" Campaign to the Boston Symphony Orchestra's recent tour--in short, almost anything a Chinese journalist of the past 20 years could observe...