June 15, 2001
Intercollegiate Rowing Catches On in China; Hong Kong University Irks Beijing by Honoring Nobel Prize-Winning Dissident
China's socialist universities are getting excited about one of the world's most aristocratic sports -- rowing.
Late May saw the third annual Gehua Cup, a boat race between Peking University and Tsinghua University, The Asian Wall Street Journal reported.
The crews at China's two most prestigious universities, many of whose members are converted basketball players, are trying to raise their profiles through competitions with Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale, as well as with
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