We’ll be back tomorrow from the U.S. to let you know about the last day of the trip.
May 24, 2007
Wednesday was the much-awaited day of (relative) freedom in Shanghai, without any planned activities after lunch. But the day began early with a 7:30 breakfast […]
May 23, 2007
The agenda was a visit to a village outside Xi’an, and the question of the day seemed to be: Would this village show us the […]
May 22, 2007
So you’ll have to forgive me if I gush a bit in this post — our main activity today was a visit to the Terracotta […]
May 21, 2007
If we were ever going to have a chance to see what “real life” might be like in Xi’an, it seemed that Sunday was our […]
May 20, 2007
We spent most of Saturday in transit, first from our Beijing hotel to the Great Wall at Badaling, then to the Beijing Olympics construction, and […]
May 19, 2007
Friday brought the Yale 100 delegates face-to-face with ongoing reforms to the Chinese education system, which are beginning to transform Chinese universities along American lines. […]
May 18, 2007
On the first full day of the Yale 100’s trip to China, the group was confronted with a packed schedule: an alumni breakfast event, smaller […]
May 17, 2007
Four hours after we arrived at Beijing Airport on Wednesday, Yale faculty and students were welcomed to China by President Hu Jintao in a brief […]
May 16, 2007
Faculty and students departing next week for China met Tuesday afternoon to hear from Yale President Richard Levin about the challenges facing China in the […]
May 8, 2007
WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush ’68 met Friday afternoon with Yale President Richard Levin, China’s Ambassador to the United States Zhou Wenzhong and other […]
May 4, 2007