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Ready for Reality

After watching a recent episode of The Awakening Age, a TV series on the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Yang Meng, a program engineer in Beijing, has plans to visit the Red Building in the capital during the Tomb-Sweeping Festival, which falls on April 4 this year.

Built with red bricks and red tiles, from which it gets its name, the Red Building was the main location of Peking University in 1918. Since the university’s founding in 1898, its main campus had to be moved several times due to the internal conflicts in the country at that time.

The Red Building was a major cradle of political development in

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