By Patrick Boehler and Anne Yi
South China Morning News - Friday, 11 July, 2014
The head of China’s Peking University said plans to build a new elite
academy on its picturesque campus was up for debate, constituting a
small victory for students and scholars who fear the prestige project
would sow divisions and elitism.
On Friday, the People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s top
newspaper, quoted university president Wang Enge as saying that details
about the establishment of the Yenching Academy, set to host a
prestigious fellowship programme, would be discussed with students and
staff before plans would be finalised.
Yenching Academy would become a symbol of elite privilege, said one graduate student majoring in the English language.
“These 100 Yenching students will live on the school’s best plot of
land, have the best teachers, they will have bright and spacious class
and dorm rooms,” the student said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“They will be the privileged elite and all the other Peking University
students will be second-class citizens.”
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