china
Students to the rescue
A charitable group set up by two UW students after the May 12 earthquake in China’s Sichuan Province has been as no-nonsense as its name, raising $65,000 for children in the disaster zone and winning a prestigious award
Escape from Shanghai
Going off to college can be difficult, even traumatic—leaving home for the first time, moving to an unfamiliar town, living with strangers. For Julia Lin, ’65, though, it required assuming a false identity, dodging bombs and surviving a pirate attack.
September 1, 1989
Chinese students anxious
Students from China studying at the UW were living in limbo long before the Chinese government's June 4 crackdown in Beijing. Now they live in fear as well.