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Report on Exchange Studies, Spring 2013 at Peking Report on Exchange Studies, Spring 2013 at Peking University, Guanghua School of Management, MBA Programme for M.Sc. (Econ) Degree at Aalto University School of Business by student n:o k93750 1. Preparations ............................................................................................................................................ 2 1.1. Choosing Peking University ................................................................................................................ 2 1.2 Practical Arrangements from Helsinki ................................................................................................. 3 1.3 Practical arrangements in Beijing ....................................................................................................... 5 2. Life in Beijing............................................................................................................................................ 8 2.1 Beijing as a Home City ........................................................................................................................ 8 2.2 Courses at PKU ................................................................................................................................. 12 2.3 Sights and Travelling ........................................................................................................................ 19 2.4 Learning Mandarin Chinese .............................................................................................................. 21 3. Recommendations ................................................................................................................................. 24 1. Preparations 1.1. Choosing Peking University For me it was a given to choose to go further than Europe and the English speaking North America for my exchange, because universities as international players provide an excellent means of integrating yourself into a culture which you wouldn´t later perhaps just in the fresh go and apply for work. Such was exactly the case with Beijing, which I wrote down as my first choice because of its prestigious universities, namely Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Renmin University. You´d most probably end up in the international, business intense Shanghai if ever wanting to work in China, so Beijing was stretching this a bit further to experience more authentic, local China. All of mentioned schools are top Chinese institutions, also recognized worldwide. Beida is part of the government´s C9 league which directs funding to these “Chinese Ivy league schools”, leading to providing home to notable professors with CAS/CASS (Chinese Academy of Science/Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) membership, and also a lot of lecturers/researchers with degrees from top-ranking British or American universities. It also means that compared to “only average” universities with maybe 30 000 RMB annual tuition, the meager percentage of students getting into any of these top universities are subsidized by the government, just for being so good. In university rankings, they´re part of Asia´s finest alongside Korean and Singaporean universities, with Peking University for instance being ranked 4th in Asia and globally 40th, compared with Helsinki University´s highest ever quotation of 72nd and Aalto at 300+. (See e.g. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2012-13/regional-ranking/region/asia) This also means that everyone in China knows Peking University (or PKU or BeiDa 北大, short for Beijing Daxue 北京大学 similarly to RenDa, short for Renmin Daxue). It´s had a remarkable role in Chinese history as a home to the intellectuals of China ever since being founded already in the 1890´s, including nurturing Mao´s early steps with communist literature whilst acting as a library assistant. The school is HUGE with the odd 30 000 students, and it´s main campus is located in the Haidian district in the Northwest of Beijing along with its neighboring campuses of Tsinghua and Renmin – this means the area´s practically flocked with students, but also companies wanting to locate close to them (especially technology companies concentrated in ZhongGuanCun). It´s kind of an Oxford-Cambridge type of rowing competition and rivalry setting between Tsinghua and Peking University; but to my understanding, both schools together provide the majority of Communist Party leaders, government top officials, business leaders, and otherwise powerful, affluent people you´d wanted to stay in good relations with. Don´t mix up PKU with the many other “Beijing so-and- so Universities”; no harm there, but helps you get off at the right metro stop at Peking University East Gate! Notably, the PKU Chinese students are top of the crop, taken in yearly based on nationally the best high school end examination GaoKao scores from each province (see e.g. http://sinostand.com/2013/02/03/the- gaokao-highway-to-hell/ on the topic). It would have been great to be fluent in Chinese to take courses along with them; the reason many of the exchange students at PKU are Chinese of origin. Chinese students are “friendly but not easy to friend”, perhaps as knowing their own value compared to short-term visiting foreigners, and having differing interests (study 24/7 vs. cheap 6RMB beer). But if you show being smart enough, your classmates will change attitude towards you, bluntly speaking ;) Luckily there are also many outgoing Chinese enrolled in e.g. the English speaking international MBA program and exchange student flock the selective courses held in English. Aalto University was only in 2012 made a PKU partner aside e.g. Yale, Cornell, LSE, ESADE, ESSEC. All in all we were about 90 exchange students taken into the Guanghua School of Management for Spring 2013 for both undergraduate (B.Sc.) and MBA (M.Sc.) programs. 1.2 Practical Arrangements from Helsinki Having applied in January 2012 and received confirmation of my placement at PKU from the Aalto University Department of International Affairs already in March 2012, the next step was a loooong wait. Good in a way that all other courses, work, and arrangements were easily settled in advance. Meanwhile, for me this growing interest in China also lead to taking a Chinese language course at Aalto Open University in the summer, plus spending August in Shanghai on a summer course on Urban Planning and Design at Tongji University, namely Aalto-Tongji Design Factory at the Sino-Finnish Centre (http://sfc.tongji.edu.cn/). Summer schools are abundant, and they´re a cool and easy way to get a glimpse of China; they´re available for practically every field of studies, and other much less expensive ones are e.g. Fudan University´s Nordic Centre Summer Course with application DL annually in March (http://www.nordiccentre.org/). The obligatory Aalto exchange info session in May was the only event before September brought along an email from PKU Guanghua School of Management with instructions on how to complete the formal application procedure into their system for Spring Term 2013. This required logging into their electronic application system, filling in a form, attaching a separate motivation letter, and after sending, also printing and mailing the application package by snail mail. Confirmation of acceptance came by email in early December – with notice that the official letter of acceptance would be sent to one´s home university, and it did, approximately on January 4th 2013. This invitation letter from PKU was needed as the only attachment to the visa application to the Embassy of China in Kulosaari, Vanha Kelkkamäki 11 (http://www.chinaembassy-fi.org/eng/). I guess the F-Visa application would officially require flight tickets and hotel or other residence receipts as appendices, but for me, the invitation letter has been enough already twice, both for Tongji Summer School and now Peking University. The embassy was open only between 9 to 11:30 and people start queuing up already before that to get a waiting number; also there is no understanding from the embassy staff if you don´t have all necessary papers with you, e.g. I had to go again the next day with a copy of the PKU acceptance/invitation letter. Luckily the visa only needs 4 working days (e.g. Wed drop off to Mon pick up), and the pick-up queue is separate, without waiting numbers. The cost of a single entry visa was 60€. We were sent our username/password data for the course registration system http://mba.gsm.pku.edu.cn/ a week before course selections opened on the third week of January 2013. We also received a full timetable of all MBA courses, and detailed course descriptions of English selective (S) courses for Spring, which ran in addition to required (R) or core courses and Chinese courses. I played it safe by waking up at 9:30 Beijing time (3:30 in Helsinki…) that Monday morning to enroll exactly for the courses I wanted, and wasn´t the only one online to do this to get a good placement (e.g.12/65 attendees). The system was open from Monday 14th to Friday 18th of January, before a second round of “drop-and-select courses” began at the start of the term on Monday 25th of February to Friday March 1st. Most courses were 2 PKU credits (which equals 4 ECTS) and the Chinese language courses that stretched out a bit longer across the entire semester were 3 PKU credits. The maximum course load for exchange students was stated as 18 PKU credits or 8 courses. The registration system however only accepted an enrollment of 16 PKU credits, and I could only later enroll
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