Qinghua

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I'm liking Qinghua's campus more than Beida. Qinghua is celebrating their centennial this year. 100 years ago the US secretary of state commented that China's reparations to the US for the Boxer Rebellion were way too much so President Wilson reduced them from $30M to like $11M (or reduced them by $11M? not sure) on the condition that the extra money be used to establish a university for foreign study. Thus Qingua University was born! It was built on a Qing Dynasty prince's gardens or something so the campus is really nice. The picture above is taken from the steps of the law school building. Not too shabby!

The history of universities here in Beijing is kind of interesting so hopefully I'll have time to write something more substantial on the subject later.