Thursday, June 22, 2006

Rioting at Shengda College

The New York Times and other sources have highlighted student riots at Shengda College (I think the simplified Chinese is 升达经贸管理学). The problem: Shengda has an affiliation with Zhengzhou University in Henan province that until this year allowed Shengda students to receive diplomas identifying them as graduates of the more prestigious Zhengzhou University. New national laws in China apparently forbid this type of arrangement, and the new Shengda graduates, upon seeing the designation on their diplomas, rioted. The campus has been shut down.

The EastSouthWestNorth blog has translations from the Chinese press and photos of the damaged campus.

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