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A statue of Nathan Hale stands on Old Campus at Yale University. There is a copy of that statue in front of the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Yet another stands in front of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts (where George H.W. Bush ('48) went to prep school and joined a secret society at age twelve).

Nathan Hale, along with three other Yale graduates, was a member of the "Culper Ring," one of America's first intelligence operations. Established by George Washington, it was successful throughout the Revolutionary War. Nathan was the only operative to be ferreted out by the British, and after speaking his famous regrets, he was hanged in 1776. Ever since the founding of the Republic, the relationship between Yale and the "Intelligence Community" has been unique.

George Bush, the first U.S. diplomatic representative to the People's Republic of China back in 1973, was a member of Skull and Bones. So were his father, brother, son, uncle, nephew, and several cousins. Winston Lord, the Reagan-Bush administration Ambassador to China was a member; so were his father and several other relatives. James Lilley, the current Ambassador to China, was a member of Skull and Bones, as was his brother. Except during the Carter administration, every U.S. Ambassador to Beijing since Kissinger's deal with Mao Zedong was a member of the same tiny Yale cult. A mere coincidence?

New World Order

MAO WAS A YALIE

According to geopolitical and economics researcher, Dr. Antony Sutton in his book 'The Patriot Review', not only did the Skulls and Bones help to build up the Communist movement in China, but they gave financial aide to the Soviet Union communists as well. This power cult has for centuries been playing a "two ends against the middle" type of game, attempting to control America (the thesis) and Russia (the anti-thesis) and other countries or movements, carefully pitting them against each other at the lower levels in order to keep the populations of the world in a state of confusion and despair, to the point that they will - hopefully - resign themselves into accepting the New World Order "synthesis" as the only alternative to solve the very "problems" which 'they' the New World Order initiators, created in the first place!

"'Yale in China' was also closely associated with the New York-based Union Theological Seminary, which has been a center for U.S. subversion of Asia According to Branton, they were literally wolves in sheeps' clothing. Every prominent radical leader operating in Korea today was trained at Union Theological. Union Theological was dominated for twenty years by Henry Sloane Coffin, a U.S. intelligence executive from the Sloane and Coffin families. He was a Skull and Bones member as were a dozen of his relatives. "Nor should it be forgotten that Averell Harriman, the former Ambassador to Moscow who did so much to build up the Soviet Union, was a member of Skull and Bones. Harriman was also a business partner of Prescott Bush, Sr., the father of Maoist enthusiast George Bush."

Back in 1903, Yale Divinity School established a number of schools and hospitals throughout China that were collectively known as 'Yale in China.' It has since been shown that 'Yale in China' was an intelligence network whose purpose was to destroy the republican movement of Sun Yat-sen on behalf of the Anglo-American Establishment. The Anglo-American "Establishment" hated Sun, because he wanted to develop China. On the other hand, they loved the Chinese communists because they intended to keep China backward, and were committed to growing dope. One of 'Yale in China's' most important students was Mao Zedong.

"George Bush, the first U.S. diplomatic representative to the People's Republic of China back in 1973, was a member of Skull and Bones. So was his father, brother, son, uncle, nephew, and several cousins. Winston Lord, the Reagan-Bush administration Ambassador to China was a member; so was his father and several other relatives. James Lilley, the current Ambassador to China, is a member of Skull and Bones, as was his brother. With the exception during the Carter administration, every U.S. Ambassador to Beijing, since Kissinger's deal with Mao Zedong was a member of the Skulls and Bones.

"Skull and Bones is a secret fraternity at Yale University was formed in 1832 by General William Russell, whose shipping firm later dominated the U.S. side of the China opium trade.

"During World War II, 'Yale in China' was a primary instrument used by the U.S. Establishment and its Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to install the Maoists into power. 'Yale in China' was run by OSS operative Reuben Holden, the husband of Bush's cousin, and also a member of Skull and Bones.

"The Maoists made China into the world's largest opium producer.

Mao wrote a little Red Book that described a real power is a secret military complex. This exited Joseph Stillwell who was the U.S. General in Burma running covert supply lines to Red Communist Armies so that China would fall to Communism and pad the U.S. Democracy vs. World Communism, so Joseph Stillwell, once back home began to write an authoritative Communism Manifesto that the U.S. Military complex lives by today. Military Complex Doctrine Red Book (1964) Ch. 5 : Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. The C.I.A. changed this to political power grows from our Secret Military Team and the idiot Congress that give us a Black Budget. When Communist Mao Tse-tung asked Truman to have 'normalized trade relations' ( same accusation that Oswald claimed for Cuba) and Truman responded by bombing Chinese up and down their coastlines, the dictator recorded in his little Red Book: Red Book (1964) ch. 6 : If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States. Red Book (1964) ch. 9 :Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people. UMC: Without the Secret C.I.A. Military and its powerhold over the U.S. Presidency, there is no American Democracy ( a lie), but adapted from the Red Book by Joseph Stillwell, who armed the Red Army from Burma by Lend Lease defrayments, under F.D.R.'s orders.

U.S. Army General Joseph Stilwell was an eighth generation descendant of an English colonist who arrived in America in 1638, whose descendants remained in New York up through the birth of Stilwell's father. Just prior to World War II, Stilwell was recognized as the top corps commander in the Army and was initially selected to plan and command the Allied invasion of North Africa.[10] However, when it became necessary to send a senior officer to China to keep that country in the War, Stilwell was selected, over his personal objections, by President Franklin Roosevelt and his old friend, Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. He became the Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, served as the commander of the China Burma India Theater responsible for all Lend-Lease supplies going to China, and later was Deputy Commander of the South East Asia Command.

JESUS, GUNS, AND MONEY

"'Yale in China' was also closely associated with the New York-based Union Theological Seminary, which has been a center for U.S. subversion of Asia (literal wolves in sheep's clothing - Branton). Every prominent radical leader operating in Korea today, for example, was trained at Union Theological. Union Theological was dominated for twenty years by Henry Sloane Coffin, a U.S. intelligence executive from the Sloane and Coffin families. He was a Skull and Bones member as were a dozen of his relatives.

"Nor should it be forgotten that Averell Harriman, the former Ambassador to Moscow who did so much to build up the Soviet Union, was a member of Skull and Bones. Harriman was also a business partner of Prescott Bush, Sr., the father of Maoist enthusiast George Bush."

Mao Zedong was among the staff. During the intrigues of China in the 1930s and '40s, American intelligence called upon the resources of "Yale in China", and George Bush's cousin and fellow "Bonesman" Reuben Holden. After stints as UN Ambassador and Chairman of the Republican National Committee for the beleaguered Richard Nixon, George Bush was sent to look after the "China trade". The Bush family is still very much involved in the economic activities of "Red" China.

Many researchers contend that George Bush has been with CIA since the early 1950s. A bust of former Director of Central Intelligence and President George Herbert Walker Bush resides at the top of the steps in the Original Headquarters Building main lobby. In 1982, the late Vincent Melzac, a former director of the Corcoran Gallery, commissioned Marc Mellon to sculpt the likeness of then-vice president Bush. The bust was on display at the Bush residence until Melzac donated it to the CIA in 1985. President Bush holds a distinction in CIA history – he is the only man to serve as both head of the CIA and president of the United States.

1. Yale University was founded on the profits of the opium trade in China. Skull & Bones & Bush
www.subgenius.com/bigfist/evils/politics/X002_BUSHED.TXT.html .

2. Mao attended Yale-In-China and in fact was a writer and editor there after his first paper was closed by authorities. Thus when Yale educated, trained and hired him the institution surely knew what they were doing. In fact ,
YALE-IN-CHINA OWNED THE BUILDING WHERE MAO HAD HIS ‘CULTURE BOOKSTORE’ IN
1920. www.asiasource.org/society/mao.cfm .

3.Since the resumption of diplomatic ties with China due to the influence of Henry Kissinger (whose son David is a Yale graduate) on President Nixon, every US ambassador to China is a Yalie and known or suspected member of Skull
and Bones, the only exception being a brief period during the Jimmy Carter presidency.

The current Ambassador, Mr. Randt is known to be a member of S & B by the Chinese authorities and is described as a ‘fraternity brother’ of President GW Bush.

www.english.people.com.cn/english/200107/24/eng20010724_75677.html .
“New US Ambassador to China Promises Closer Relations”. Of course, former President George H.W. Bush was a member of Skull and Bones and US ambassador to China as well.

Oddly, the paranoid Chinese Communist regime never seems to have a problem with this “fraternity” - for good reason as the following information will show.

homeland security and china. frenemies?

EVIDENCE OF EXTENSIVE CHINESE PENETRATION OF U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY- - SELECTED AS MERELY ONE EXAMPLE OF MANY.

1. “CNOOC’s All Star Team”
www.publicintegrity.org/lobby/report.aspx?aid=737 . CNOOC , the chinese oil giant hired various lobbyists recently in its ultimately failed attempt to buy US oil company and owner of the only rare earth metals mine in the USA, UNOCAL.
One of the lobbyists was BKSH an affiliate of Burson-Marsteller and part of the WPP group.

2. “Security Veteran Michael J. Hershmann To Head New Homeland Security Advisory Firm/18July2003
www.wpp.com/wpp/news/press/press-release.html?content=wpp/news/press/pressrelease_285.html
The new company is to "help navigate the security landscape" possibly with the ‘great helmsman’ in mind. The subsidiary of previously mentioned BHSH and WPP will join with StoneBridge International and be called
Civitas, LLC. So the lobbyists for CNOOC are also navigators for companies that want a piece of the security pie caused by the 9-11 attacks and the creation of DHS.

3. StoneBridge International was run by Samuel Berger, also now known as Sandy-the-Burglar, caught with US secrets in his silk stockings and now convicted of a misdemeanor and on probation.
www.stonebridge-international.com/News/release8.html .

4. StoneBridge has a StoneBridge-China subsidiary. “…announces establishment of StoneBridge-China…”
www.stonebridge-international.com/News/release-stonebridge-china.html .

5. WPP has extensive ties in China as well. It is planning on doubling its workforce to 2000 employees and its subsidiaries are also expanding in China. WPP is the second largest advertising / Public Relations firm in the world led by a member of British royalty.
www.biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/2/15/business/
10159497&sec=business
. WPP Plans to expand in China.

6. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is managed by the illustrious Secretary Michael Chertoff. He was formerly a long term partner of the law firm Latham & Watkins (L&W). The company recently announced that it represented SEVEN CHINESE BANKS IN A RECENT DEAL.
www.lw.com/resource/Publications/PressRelease/pressRelease.asp?pid=808
“Latham & Watkins LLP Advises on Four of the Largest Project Financings in Asia”.

7. One of the proud clients of the former DHS leader’s firm is Bank of China which is now implicated in money-laundering in Macau to FINANCE THE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM. “U.S. Probes Banks’ North Korea Ties”
www.yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=6244(yes…the source of this cite is ironic).

8. One of the other banks mentioned is Banco Delta Asia of Macau.
Banco Delta has a partner in the USA. The partner is HSBC which happens to be tied to the hero of the New Orleans disaster, Michael “brownie’s doing a damned fine job” Brown, former head of DHS department FEMA or Federal Emergency Management Agency. www.innercitypress.org/finwatch.html September, 16, 2005 -
“Guess which banks have been correspondents for Macau’s Banco Delta Asia….” one of the two was HSBC.

Michael Brownie involvement in odd things at HSBC
www.householdwatch.com/wp/2005/09/15/bush-buddies-at-hsbc and apparently

HSBC was running a “credit card cartel” as well -
www.news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article310082.ece "HSBC sued over credit card ‘cartel’".

Moving on to an even more dangerous breed of cards…

playing both sides

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY BIOMETRIC MICROCHIP AND ID CARD RELATED COMPANIES DO IDENTICAL WORK FOR COMMUNIST CHINA

1. Oracle corporation of Larry Ellison stands shoulder-to-shoulder with DHS in protecting the motherland.
www.oracle.com/industries/homeland/homeland_brochure.pdf . And it also helps the Chinese motherland. “Oracle Mounting full Scale Linux assault in China”.
www.techweb.com/wire/26810368 / “Oracle , Legend Cluster in China”. There is now even an OracleChina.
www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/1484681

2. Accenture has been given a TEN BILLION DOLLAR DEAL TO CREATE A ‘VIRTUAL BORDER’ BY DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY…despite concerns.
“Can You hide from Accenture”?
www.insight.zdnet.co.uk/communications/wireless/0,39020430,39213293,00.htm
regarding “interesting views” its chairman has regarding RFID (Radio Frequency ID) which many Christians and others believe is the feared ‘mark’ of the book of revelations.

3. Accenture spun off from the Enron scandal tarred Arthur Andersen accounting/ book-cooking firm. There are concerns over what this company is doing in Canada as well. “Just Who is the company taking over BC Hydro”? www.citizensforpublicpower.ca/pdfs/accenture.pdf

4. “Accenture believes in ‘Censor...ship” (or should that have been ‘Sensor chip’?) www.news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5830533.html
Yes….the protector of America’s Virtual Border is in Asia. In fact it is doing a lot of hiring there.

5. “ACCENTURE TO HIRE UP TO 30,000 IN ASIA”
www.news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5784626.html In fact the number could get to be 50,000 more from the current 19,000 it now has in that continent.

6. OTI - ON TRACK INNOVATIONS. It is involved in the new biometric microchip enabled RFID ePassport that American citizens will soon have to have. One does not need it to leave, but entry will be denied without it.
“OTI receives GSA contract award and FIPS Certification for homeland security products”, Jan. 25, 2005
www.secureidnews.com/news/2005/01/25/oti-receives-gsa-contract-award-and-fips-certification-for-homeland-security-products/ AND “US Government Awards RFID Passport Contracts”
www.rfidgazette.org/security/The three companies were OTI from Israel,Oberthur and ASK Contactless -of the greatest US ally in the world -FRANCE.

7. OTI in China -”China starts to Launch Electronic ID Cards Incorporating OTI’s Contactless Technology” (thank goodness no pesky human rights concerns there!)
www.rfidnews.org/news/2004/04/07/china-starts-to-launch-electronic-id-cards-incorporating-otis-contactless-technology/.

8. Oberthur - It is manufacturing the cards in South Africa, a country whose political leanings are very open to question vis-a-vis the interests of the USA. www.smartcardtrends.com/”Oberthur Card Systems to acquire AfriCard…”.

9. Oberthur is making cards for the Turkish military, a nation becoming increasingly “Islamist” and closer to China.
www.keycorp.net/InvestorCentre/ASXAnnouncement/
Keycorp_Turkish_Military_ID_Card.htm
(Oberthur will manufacture actual card for KeyCorp).

10. Oberthur - China “Oberthur wins China Smart Card Certification”.
www.cardtechnology.com/article.html?id=20050922QE675665 .

11. ASK Contactless - As noted earlier, OTI, ASK and Oberthur were awarded contracts for the development of ID technologies for the USA’s “security”. It recently sponsored a “Smart Labels China” exhibition in Beijing,
April 19-21 of 2005 and conquered (that was the word used) Portugal andit also “conquers the Californian coast.”
www.ask-rfid.com/uk/news/news_index.php4?&pg=2 .

12. Transcore, privately held, based in Dallas , Texas, USA.
“TRANSCORE develops FAST system to boost Homeland Security along borders with Canada and Mexico” www.rapidttp.com/transponder/presre80.html The FAST system uses RFID to track vehicles via a windshield sticker. The system is called eGo.

13.Transcore is also helping Chinese customs keep their country’s border secure . We should all sleep better now knowing that all is well since this Texan company of which little is known, since it is not publicly traded and thus is not under SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) scrutiny is dealing with BOTH CHINA AND THE USA SECURITY
AGENCIES USING THE SAME DEVICE FOR THE SAME PURPOSE - while chinese generals threaten the USA with nuclear incineration.
www.transcore.com/news/news021014.htm “China Boosts Border Crossing
Efficiency and Security Using Transcore’s eGo Products”.

14.Transcore is also a proud partner of china in the ongoing genocide in Tibet by helping the chinese build the railway to Tibet that will bring millions of Han chinese to finish the ethnocide begun by Mao when he invaded in 1959. www.transcore.com/news/news010301.htm “China Extends Transcore’s Railway Wireless Tracking System Nationwide”
“Protests, nature won’t stand in the way as China steamrolls into Tibet (IE). www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/2001/7/27_3.html .

15. AXALTO - The KGB of Russia has its self respect too…it would not be left behind in this complex web of corruption and evil. “Axalto Gets Piece of Russian E-Passport Business”
www.cardtechnology.com/article.html?id=20050930BBVZFM42 (Axalto is french-based). Russia under Putin is now an ally of Communist China.

16. AXALTO is a great friend of the USA in Homeland Security - it’s mottocoincidentally is “YOUR FUTURE IN HAND” - precisely where the biblical mark of the beast is supposed to be implanted by the One World Government of the Anti-Christ. www.axalto.com/Company/press/news.asp?id=219
The US and World headquarters for AXALTO smart cards is in Austin ,Texas, where Dubya used to be the Governor, busily signing nearly 160 death warrants, more than any Governor in US history far outpacing his brother in Florida who only has 19 or 20 so far….

THE FUTURE IS HERE

“Red Chinese Army Controls America’s Largest West Coast Container Port, Long Beach , California”
www.educate-yourself.org/tw/coscocontrolslongbeachshipyards17sep04.shtml
The article speaks of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing and his Hutchinson Whampoa conglomerate which along with other companies has spread tentacles all over the world . A subsidiary even has extensive business ties with SAVI Technology the present employer of the first DHS leader Tom Ridge.
Li Ka-shing has a son that is a rising star (or should one say falling star?) He is being touted in messianical prose.
"The Rise and Rise of the Li Dynasty”
“THE SECOND COMING OF RICHARD LI” by Bruce Einhorn, October 3, 2005 . www.businessweek.com .

CONCLUSION:

The Mao project started in Yale is not unique. The current President’s grandfather funded the rise of Hitler and others associated with the secret society helped bring about the Russian Revolution and kept Stalin in Power. There are also ties to Pinochet, Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein and others that are beyond the scope of this article. The one differentiation is that THIS PROJECT MIGHT SUCEED.

China, with one billion people and rising like an evil phoenix, could rule the world unlike Saddam in Iraq or Noriega in Panama that were mere national or regional powers. The rise of Maoism in China did not happen by accident. It was guided along by Skull and Bones and other evil networks. The rise of the red dragon from a rice paddy to RFID, from the barefoot doctor to man in space has been designed. China has not risen, it has been lifted.The Craftlove NWO Education Project provides this information as one tiny piece of the puzzle. What the beast fears most at this juncture is exposure. The reader must as always draw his or her own conclusions and decide what action to take. However, to do nothing is to allow the rise of evil.

Re: Mao was a Yale Man - A Yali and Skull and Bones January 09, 2010, 07:32:06 PM
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Changsha

Changsha was the site of Mao Zedong's conversion to communism
The 1903 Treaty of Shanghai between China and Japan opened the city to foreign trade. Consequently, factories, churches and schools were built. A college was started by Yale University bachelors, and later became a medical center named Xiangya and a secondary school named the Yali School.

Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China began his political career in Changsha. He was a student at the Hunan Number 1 Teachers' Training School from 1913 to 1918. He later returned as a teacher and principal from 1920 to 1922. The school was destroyed during the Chinese Civil War but has since been restored. The Former Office of the Hunan Communist Party Central Committee where Mao Zedong once lived is now a museum that includes Mao's living quarters, photographs and other historical items from the 1920s.
http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Yali-School

IT'S REALLY 'NOT' TO LEARN ABOUT CHINA'S CULTURE!

YALI SCHOOL

HISTORY
Founded in 1906 by Yale-in-China (雅礼协会 now known as the Yale-china association), Yali School has been known throughout China for its quality instruction, both as an American-owned private school during the first half of the 20th century and as a public school since then. The name Yali 雅礼 (pinyin: Yǎ Lǐ) comes from the Analects of Confucius, meaning elegance of expression (ya 雅) and propriety of conduct (li 礼), and is a transliteration of Yale in early-20th century. Yali's school colors are blue, white (Yale colors) and red (China), as appear on the school uniform.

Founded in 1901, the Yale-China Association is a private, nonprofit organization with more than a century of experience contributing to the development of education in and about China and to the furtherance of understanding and knowledge between Chinese and American people.

YALE (Yet Another Learning Environment)

Earlier Years
Brownell Gage, Warren Seabury, Lawrence Thurston, and Arthur Williams, all graduates of Yale College in the 1890s, founded Yale-in-China, and brought the mission to Changsha between the years of 1901 and 1905. In 1906, the mission's preparatory school, or the Yali School, began operations. During the same year, Edward Hume, M.D., commenced the medical work in Changsha. In 1912, Yali's first graduates received degrees.

Continued Success
The campus was dramatically expanded in 1914, and Yali became the most well-known and highly regarded education institution in the Republic of China era. By 1928, Yali started opening up its administrative and leadership roles to Chinese educators. While Yali students were known for their academic performance, they were also well trained athletes, with the school's many athletic teams - soccer, volleyball, track, for example - winning provincial and national tournaments.

World War II Years
In 1938, Yali students and faculty were moved to Yuanling in western Hunan to avoid bombing in Changsha during the Japanese invasion of China. Teaching continued in Yuanling for seven years before returning to Changsha in 1946.

Early PRC Years
In November of 1948, the US government started evacuating Americans in China; Dr. Dwight Rugh became the last Yale-China representative in China. In 1951, Dr. Rugh was brought to the new gym on the Yali campus in a school-wide meeting to condemn "American Capitalist Invaders"; he returned to America via Hong Kong soon after. During the same year, the municipal government of Changsha took over the administration of the Yali School and changed its name to Changsha Number Five Middle School to be integrated into the city's public school system. The School's tie with Yale-China was cut off. During the next few decades, Yali experienced political turbulances that swept much of China.

After the Cultural Revolution
In 1980, Yali, known at the time still as Changsha Number Five middle School, revived operations. With the new "reform and openning-up" policy instituted by Deng Xiaoping, more freedom to connect with the outside world was realized. Yali alumni from the first half of the 20th Century started working tirelessly between Changsha and New Haven. In 1985, the School revived its relationship with the Yale-China Association and was once again known as Yali. The next year, two Yale-China bachelors arrived on campus and resumed teaching responsibilities.

New Era
Since 1986, Yali has reinvented itself again as a leading institution of secondary education in China. While following a standard curriculum prescribed by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, it expanded its education philosophy to include extracurriculars and specialty education to offer students opportunities to engage themselves in campus life in and outside the classroom. The School has received numerous provincial and national recognitions for its excellence in providing high quality education to young minds. In 1992, it became formally recognized as one of the three Provincial Key Schools in Changsha, establishing it as a premier institution in China's public school system. At the same time, with its long history of international engagement, Yali has reached out to institutions in many other countries and established sister school relationships with foreign schools. In 2001, the School received a delegation from Yale University led by Yale's president, Richard Levin, in celebration of both the Centennial of Yale-China Association as well as the Tercentennial of Yale University. In 2006, Yali celebrated its own Centennial, bringing back alumni/ae and former teachers from all parts of the world.

CURRENT CAMPUS LOCATIONS
Yali currently has two campuses: a day school located near city-center (on Laodong Road between Furong Street and Shaoshan Street) and a boarding school campus located in the southern suburbs. However, as the city's school board continues with the reforms of the school system under the intruction from the Hunan Provincial Education Bureau, the boarding school section is likely to become an independent private school, tentatively named "South Yali School (南雅中学)", as it is located south of the main day school campus.

Re: Mao was a Yale Man - A Yali and Skull and Bones
http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2005/09/28/to-grow-yale-goes-to-china/

To grow, Yale goes to China
Levin sees strategic opportunity in booming country
By Julie Post
Published Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Daniel Weisfield '08 thought he was leaving Yale thousands of miles behind when he traveled to China last year to study Mandarin in Beijing. But the humanities major soon discovered that he was far from being the only Yalie in the bustling city.

He bumped into fellow Yalis at bars and restaurants; he saw Yale's insignia engraved on a giant plaque at the National Library of China; and whenever he told a local he was a Yalie, they would say, with familiarity, "Ah, Yelu daxue," or "Yale University!"

"Within Beijing, I sometimes felt I couldn't go out without running into a Yalie," Weisfield said. "Yalies are all over the place in a way that students from Princeton and Harvard are not."

The growing number of Yale students flocking to booming metropolises like Beijing and Shanghai surprises few observers, given the wide range of programs for students to visit East Asia, not to mention Yale President Richard Levin's efforts to forge ties to the Chinese government and universities.

The recent announcement that Chinese President Hu Jintao would deliver a major policy address at Yale sandwiched between a meeting with President Bush at the White House and the opening of the United Nations General Assembly was viewed by the Yale administration as validation of its efforts.

"I think that many universities are trying to strengthen those relations with China, but I think we're doing very well," Levin said. "The fact that we were chosen by the president of China to be the site for his only campus visit does reinforce the sense that Yale is more deeply committed than any of our peer institutions."

But Levin's courtship of government officials like Hu -- the head of an authoritarian communist regime that has been accused of human rights violations -- has left some students and faculty wondering exactly what role the University wants to play in China.

China has long been the centerpiece of Levin's broader goal to transform Yale into a global institution, and the University hopes to benefit strategically from its exchanges with the world's most populous nation as it emerges as a global superpower.

"In my opinion, it's likely to be one of the world's two great powers 15 or 20 years down the road," Levin said. "I think that to have a strong footprint there, a strong set of connections, will be very good for Yale."

Indeed, Yale is leaving its footprints throughout the Far East. Within the last six years, the University has formed partnerships between Yale and universities in China. The number of undergraduates studying in China under the Richard U. Light Fellowship has increased five times over since the program was launched eight years ago. The Law School in 1999 opened the China Law Center to influence human rights policy and help reform the country's legal system. And the century-old Yale-China Association continues along its missionary path in China, now focusing on training health workers and teaching English.

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Still, Yale and China continue their mutual courtship. The University has also hosted senior administrators from major Chinese universities during the last two summers through the University Leadership Program, which was co-sponsored by Yale and the Chinese government.
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An early mission

Yale is far from the only American university with a growing presence in China. Harvard also has burgeoning alumni clubs in Beijing and Shanghai, and Princeton's summer language institute in Beijing was the first of a host of similar institutes to be launched on Chinese soil.

Yale is also not the only school to have received top Chinese government officials and university administrators. In 2003, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao spoke at Harvard during a trip to the United States, and schools like Princeton and Columbia have regular exchanges with Chinese faculty and administrators.

But Yale's storied history in China, which began nearly 200 years ago, and its early interest in Chinese language and cultural education have set the University apart from its peers. In 1854, Yale entered the record books as the first American university to grant a diploma to a Chinese student, Yung Wing.

"I think it's public knowledge that Yale has stronger ties," said Teng Kuan Ng, who coordinates Princeton's Beijing language program. "I think a lot of this has to do with one particular guy in the late 19th century [Yung] … Yale and Harvard are more well-received in Beijing than Princeton, because their names just ring more easily in the Chinese ear, and especially because Yale has a long history in China."

Yale's ties to China were forged in the mid-19th century with America's Second Great Awakening, which inspired many Christian missionaries from Yale -- at the time a religious school -- to seek converts in China's vast, uncharted lands.

At the turn of the century, Yale formalized its missionary involvement in China through the creation of the Yale Foreign Ministry Society, a private non-governmental organization that today is known as the Yale-China Association. In 1906, members of the society opened the Yali Academy, which was later known as the Yali Middle School, in the city of Changsha. The school, which exists to this day, was initially run by Yale graduates, who instructed students on a variety of Western and Chinese subjects.

The society retained a presence in China throughout the first half of the 20th century, founding Hsiang-Ya Hospital, Medical College and Nursing School and Huachung University in Wuhan.

But, with the establishment of the communist People's Republic of China in 1949 and Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, Yale's involvement in China came to an end. By 1951, most of Yale-in-China's staff had been evacuated from the country.

For the next three decades, Yale, like the rest of the western world, observed China from the outside. It was not until 1980, after China had reopened its doors to the West, that Yale-China returned to the country. The exchange between China and the West took off after then-President Deng Xiaoping's created an initiative to send Chinese students abroad to learn the ways of the West.

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In 1903, Yale Divinity School set up a program of schools and hospitals in China.