Chinese students in the University of Iowa City

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(Lead) University of Iowa City to open more and more like the Chinese people, and now every year as many as five hundred people in the Chinese students. Four years of tuition and fees calculated in accordance with one million RMB per person, which five hundred people is five million yuan.

/ Xu Zechen

Xu Zechen: Born in the 70s, graduated from Peking University. Fiction writer. Representative of the Are invited to other colleges and universities in the University of Iowa Writer.

addition to the Sixty thousand people in this small town, Iowa, as long as the out, walk a few steps you can encounter at least one black hair, yellow skin of young people. If you want to know what country they came from Asia, pass or keep pace with a few steps, you can hear them speaking Chinese dialects across the country mixed tail.

one day in a company called sense. Sketches and song and dance duet has been completely transformed my ears, heard in foreign countries are not so sensitive to Mandarin, then I heard northeast met immediately think that is their own people. They are all students studying at the University of Iowa.

Once I and a university professor of Chinese chat, talk about their common misconception: If you do not look around the building, if you ignore this rather small town and with beautiful, I always think they are walking through a city in China. The professor said that China's cities would not be so carefree and nice, would not be so small, a bit like a big small town than this place, floor, high over here. Of course, China does not have a city or county seat is specifically designed to run a university.

Iowa is a college town, if all students leave home, leaving only twenty thousand residents. More than two years is directly or indirectly most of the University services, such as a professor, a professor of family members, university support staff, even if you are working in the public sector, the service is also the object of most students.

the professor said, and now the University of Iowa each year as many as five hundred people in the Chinese students. Freshman this term to a five hundred Chinese people. Two do, to almost a thousand. In addition to live here before, piecemeal over the study and teaching, Dr. MA, sixty thousand people in this small town, yellow skin, black eyes, black hair, small physique, you can punch a hole between them and if you do not think many people have the misfortune to scratch the face of Chinese pigs fly.

Bay over so many students, because we have money. This may sound strange looking over causal relationship. Indeed, because it really looks like a bit of money a few years in China, the U.S. economy which also happens to die, many universities in order to survive, had to go to Chinese students, the same as the local college, increase enrollment. This year two hundred, four hundred bills next year.

years of college tuition and fees, etc. According to one count one million yuan, which is five hundred five hundred million yuan. A simple calculation, five behind the long list of zero, although it's stolen money with the corrupt and bureaucratic country where public funds than to eat and drink, nothing, but I'll wait for the little people, it is astronomical beyond the Milky Way, expect for send their children to ordinary families across the ocean sea, the same is a monster.

So maybe all these years really have little money, but more important, perhaps, is that China's parents want their children to eat foreign food, drinking foreign ink, not the same as expected for this They prefer to tighten their belts, duty-bound to drain themselves.

course, another reason is that many Chinese people, base, casually took out a percentage of all terrorist. Mauritius writer said to me, ah, you're China? Mauritius and China a lot of people, the Hakka were already a country of several major languages of Mao, one of several other languages, the French, English also in Africa the local dialect.

Bangladesh to the writers envy us, traveled all over the world, almost all major cities, Sounds like a compliment, but mostly they said earlier the Chinese abroad. Them to make a living, was bitterness extract the door; now, maybe a good day to do a little token, we can continue to run out - hope that is no longer just to fill the belly.

down the stairs a few days ago, met in the elevator is responsible for You can have two child! Pop up in my mind was saying, and then begin to imagine the future picture of the world, five years later, a hundred years, how? Now do the title phrase.