On a sunny June day at one of Beijing’s top universities, students with smartphones pause at the cafeteria door to take a glossy handout on studying abroad, writes Lucy Hornby in Beijing.
The campus loudspeaker blares out an announcement about studying in the US, then broadcasts a university singing contest. The Chinese words to “One Day More” from Les Misérables waft across the green lawns.
Twenty-five years ago, Renmin University, or People’s University as it was then, looked very different. It was a hotbed of protest. Its students and groups from Peking University were the first to march to Tiananmen Square in April 1989.
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