Changchun University
Most universities admit students who can see, hear and move freely, and Changchun University admits them too, along with hundreds of students who cannot. In 1987 the China Disabled Persons’ Federation and the Jilin provincial government founded at Changchun University a college for students with hearing, visual and physical disabilities, the first of its kind in China and in Asia. Today that college alone enrolls about a thousand students, and the university’s commitment to them has become its most distinctive…
Fuping County, Shaanxi Province
The county’s name means abundant peace, and Fuping — part of Weinan in central-northern Shaanxi — has been a settled administrative unit for more than 2,400 years. Its 1,242 square kilometers bridge the Guanzhong Plain and the loess plateau, a landscape that has yielded five Tang dynasty imperial mausoleums, a Jin dynasty iron Buddha, and a roster of figures who shaped Chinese politics from the Qin dynasty to the modern era. Qin · Wang Jian → Ming · Yang Jue…
Qingzhou City, Shandong Province
A Weifang city that was one of ancient China’s nine provinces, where a county-level museum holds 400 Buddha statues from five centuries, the only surviving Ming imperial exam essay, and sixty thousand other artifacts.
North Sichuan Medical University
Ask radiologists in China where their field was taught best, and the name North Sichuan Medical University comes up often. The university in Nanchong, on the Jialing River in northern Sichuan, has built a national reputation in medical imaging while quietly serving as the main medical school for the region’s 38 million people. It began in 1951 as the North Sichuan Medical School of the southwest, rose to a specialist college in 1965 and to a full undergraduate university in…