Usually all Chinese college campus Libraries are the fanciest and sort of edgy in their archectectual design. They are usually the center of the campus and provides the 'theme' for all the other buildings to follow. Penny gave me a tour of the ZUFE library the other day. (I wish I had taken Paula here - sorry) I would have liked to have toured the library at the beginning of my contract and not at the end because it would have been nice to know about the English language newspapers and the books to help you learn Chinese. They have a pretty garden on the 9th floor with a great view of the campus. Photo above was taken from here. Picture taking was lousy though because it was another cold, rainy and cloudy day. In the library section most of the books on the metal shelves were paperbacked and not hard backed. Different subjects were on different floors along with about 10 computers on each floor. Penny proudly showed me all the sections of books on the United States such as history, geography, and famous Americans. What struck me as unusual was that the majority of famous American books were about our generals or soldiers. What kinds of famous people do our kids study? Generals or sport stars? Makes you think - doesn’t it?
