Peking University AUTUMN 2015 / Issue 32 Tones or Words 08 Your Chinese Learning Struggles 02 We Are One Family Working for the Future 15 Professor Jean C. Oi AUTUMN 2015｜ Issue 32 Bridging Two Campuses PEKING UNIVERSITY Contents Spotlight AUTUMN 2015 ｜ Issue 32 We Are One Family: Working for the Future...............................................................................................................................................................02 Peking University AUTUMN 2015 / Issue 32 Column Being a Student Entrepreneur at PKU................................................................................................................................................................................06 Tones or Words: Your Chinese Learning Struggles................................................................................................................................................08 What the Military Taught Me......................................................................................................................................................................................................1 0 People Let’s Hear What They Have to Say! Japanese Students at Peking University.....................................................................................13 Professor Jean C. Oi: Bridging Two Campuses..............................................................................................................................................................15 08 Tones or Words Marina Pop Ceni and the “Far East Society”................................................................................................................................................................17 We Are One Family Your Chinese Learning Struggles ć 02 Working for the Future Professor Jean C. Oi 15 Bridging Two Campuses Campus Editorial Board China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study - A Hug with China..........................................................................................1 9 We Want You! Come and Join Us! Student Associations Recruitment................................................................................................22 Advisor: Li Yansong, Vice President for International Relations Introduction to Health Economics: A Course Worth Exploring..............................................................................................................25 Chair: Xia Hongwei, Director, Office of International Relations Hello! I’m Your Campus Companion............................................................................................................................................................................................27 Vice-Chair: Yan Jun, Zheng Ruqing, Wang Yong, Li Hongquan, Kang Tao Int'l Collaboration Coordinator: Luo Ling, Eric Schafer Designer: Creativegg The Opening Ceremony of Peking University’s Seventh Summer School International................................................30 Peking University and LSE Summer School Program.........................................................................................................................................3 1 Congress of the International Institute of Philosophy Held at PKU....................................................................................................34 Editorial Team rd The 23 Stanford Program in Beijing...................................................................................................................................................................................35 Launch of the “One Belt and One Road” Public Course Series on Foreign Languages and Culture Project...............36 Chief Editor: Liu Susu “CHINA-AFRICA: 500 Facts” Book Launching Ceremony at PKU.......................................................................................................37 Deputy Chief Editors: Yue Xin, Wang Runjian Copy Editors: Li Chun Hei, Heng Kang Wei, Mary Ma, Darcy Moore, Voice Dominic Hall, Johana Yuanfeng Spotlight & Voice: Zheng Zihui, Huang Fangyuan, Xie Yuchengyang The Verse Must Go On: Zhongkun International Poetry Prize Winner Adam Zagajewski............................................39 People & Column: Ami Higuchi, Andrew Mao Wang Gungwu on Borderless Civilizations: Lessons from History........................................................................................................4 1 Academic & Cover: Li Wei, Bai Luolan Academic International Collaboration: Zhong Xue, Xin Yuan Campus & Giving: Zhang Rutian, Wei Wei PKU Makes Breakthrough in Biodegradable Alloys..............................................................................................................................................45 Correlation between Biodiversity & Ecosystem Functions Further Revealed on Tibetan Plateau.........................46 Peking University Newsletter is a publication for alumni and friends of PKU Professors’ Research Featured on Cover of Cell Stem Cell.............................................................................................................48 Peking University and is produced by the Office of International Relations Team Develops a New Method to Analyze 5-formylcytosine.................................................................................................................49 (OIR). Please feel free to send us suggestions or ideas so that we can improve Connection between the Consumption of Spicy Foods and Reduced Mortality Rate Revealed.............................5 1 this publication. PKU Team Makes Nanoscale Observation of PM2.5.........................................................................................................................................53 Giving Contact Us Brilliant Alumni for Bright Chemical Building.......................................................................................................................................................55 Address: Office of International Relations Jinlianchu Financial Information Service to Support Startups and Innovation......................................................................56 Peking University, 100871 Donation from ENN Energy to Support Further Development in PKU..........................................................................................57 Beijing, P.R. China Phone: (+86) 10-6275-7453 Fax: (+86) 10-6275-1240 Email: [email protected] Newsletter Online The Newsletter can be read online at: www.oir.pku.edu.cn The views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of International Relations or Peking University. NEWSLETTER｜ PEKING UNIVERSITY AUTUMN 2015｜ Issue 32 0 1 Spotlight prior to President Nixon’s historical body focuses on China studies and visit to the People’s Republic of uses an innovative interdisciplinary China, Professor Holden, 19-years- academic structure to help the old at the time, motivated by a scholars better understand China. strong belief that engaging China is necessary to realizing world peace A Link between the Past and global prosperity, decided to and Future learn Chinese. Professor Yuan Ming took notice of students’ interest in Great expectations are placed Chinese food, but “this might just be on Yenching Scholars shoulders, as a glimpse. You may not know there is they are expected to be cross-culture an ancient Chinese saying ‘food is the communicators and future leaders. paramount necessity of the people’,” The Academy places great emphasis and she mentioned the renowned on respecting the world’s diversity. A Bite of China documentary. From This emphasis is drawn from an past to present, interest in China undeniable fact that even in the age continues. of globalization, the transition from Yet times have changed, and the a fragmented past to an integrated world is different—China is widely future is a work in progress. Frictions We Are One Family recognized as a rising power, and arise from insecurity, prejudice, and a glimpse of the Middle Kingdom nationalism, leaving many parts of Working for the Future may be inadequate and misleading. the world in chaos and turbulence. > Tang Yicun China is also more than ever within As future leaders, Peking University’s reach. After 37 years of ‘reform Yenching Scholars are preparing and opening up’, China is closely themselves to deal with these connected with the world. In the late challenges. th n September 13 , the and international perspectives delivered keynote speeches at the reflected the relative closure of 1990s, Professor Lin Jianhua hosted a “Think outside the box”, suggested opening ceremony for and to cultivate leaders who will ceremony. Distinguished guests from Ancient China. Geographically Harvard Professor, who encountered Mr. Cao Qiyong, Donor of the Peking University’s advocate for global progress and embassies, government agencies, speaking, China was separated a vexing problem: He could not call Yenching Academy and Vice OYenching Academy was cultural understanding. The Academy and academic institutions also from other regions by the Pacific his wife in United States to report President of Hong Kong Yongxin, held. This autumn semester, the has already established partner or attended the ceremony, along with Ocean and the mountain ranges of his safe arrival. Today, this is no Limited. “Only through open debate inaugural class of the Yenching cooperative relations with over the inaugural group of Yenching Eurasia. Culturally speaking, China longer an