February 13, 2009

Renewed Attention to Social Sciences in China Leads to New Partnerships With American Universities

By MARA HVISTENDAHL

Rising up from the eastern edge of Peking University's campus, the sleek, U-shaped Leo KoGuan Building wraps around a red Qing-dynasty edifice. The result of a record-breaking donation from a Singaporean tycoon, this merger of old and new marks a departure from the drab socialist architecture so common in China.

But the building is more remarkable for what's inside.

In lecture halls bathed in natural light, students take intensive one-month courses from leading academics from

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