An Enduring Bond

Pan Qingzhong, Executive Dean of Schwarzman College of Tsinghua University, has witnessed many of his U.S. students’ transformation—from knowing little about China to introducing China to others.

“Once, a student said before he came to China, he had thought China was much smaller than Viet Nam,” Pan said at a China-U.S. educational exchange webinar on September 12.

The dean was incredulous. He found it hard to believe that even in this information and Internet era, a U.S. university graduate didn’t have any clue about the size of one of the biggest countries in the world. China’s territory