Morning Lecture and Campus Tour

After meeting the administrative dean of the ECNU business school and his Communist Party Representative counter part (all such positions have a counterpart member of the Communist Party) we started off the morning with a brief campus tour and then had a lecture on Chinese culture and society. Pictured below are (1) our classroom, (2) a statute of Chairman Mao Tse Tung located on the ECNU campus, and (3) a sign for the University.




Perhaps most unique about the campus was the morning exercise music played over a loudspeaker across the entire campus (seen via video below). This is demonstrative of China's generally high level of health consciousness. However, the high rate of smoking and the high levels of pollution seemingly contradict that aspect of the Chinese lifestyle. Interestingly, the latter facets, although contradictory, are relatively modern; the regimented exercise of the body and mind are centuries old. This is a microscopic conflict of an industrializing China that is riddled with difficulty in keeping up with its own growth.