July 28, 2000
A College for Disabled Students Meets Indifference in Beijing
In China, a fledgling university struggles to bring hope to people long rejected by the system
In 1988, Chinese businessman Ren Zhixin was saddened to hear that a good friend's son, who had been trying to get into a Chinese university, had committed suicide. The young man had scored high on the national entrance examination two years in a row, but was not admitted because of a disability. He could not use his right arm.
"I immediately decided I had to do something to prevent
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