Children from Jinan's Primary School performing at their school for the American Delegation. The School was founded in 1903. The principal, Ms. Ma, talked about the impact of the May 4th [1919] movement on the Chinese people's consciousness. A huge picture of leftist intellectual writer Lu Hsun stood in doorway of the school.

Jinan No. 2 High School, one of the country's experimental schools attracts the best and the brightest from Shandong. Actress Gong Li attended this school. Various slogans on the walls of the classrooms emphasized - ENTHUSIASM, DEMOCRACY, INDEPENDENCE, SELF-ESTEEM, PARTICIPATION, CONFIDENCE, DILIGENCE, and SELF-MANAGEMENT.


Shanghai kid with grandma. Little ones wear air-conditioned pants, open in the back and in the front...

Jinan #2 students asked me about US basketball teams and players. We saw one of their players who looked as big as Yao Ming [Shanghai Sharks, Houston Rockets]. But these guys were shooting a lot of airballs.