The 32-member troupe, led by Peking University President Xu Zhihong and several other Peking University delegates, spent two days at Cornell, touring campus and lunching and meeting with deans, professors and administrators. The students stayed at the Holland International Living Center on North Campus and spent time with students; Zhihong's delegation, escorted around campus by Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman, made stops at the A.D. White House, Kroch Library and the Johnson Museum. Zhihong, whose own background is in life sciences, also met with Professors Ray Wu (molecular biology and genetics) and Kathie Hodge (mycology/plant pathology) to talk about their research programs.

Members of the University of Peking Dance Troupe gather in the Holland International Living Center Feb. 1 to be greeted by Cornell students upon their arrival on campus. From left: Jing Wang, a second-year master's student in Peking University's School of International Studies; Jiajia Tong, a third-year master's student in journalism; Jing Qing, a junior history major; and Ai Lin Dai, an advertising major.

From left, Associate Librarian David Corson and President Jeffrey Lehman show President Xu Zhihong of Peking University a copy of Nicholas Copernicus' De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On Revolutions) in the Kroch Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections vault Feb. 2. Lehman is explaining that this copy of the 1543 book was from the personal collection of Andrew Dickson White, Cornell's first president.