Beijing — Perhaps the most crucial technology at Tsinghua University is the bicycle.
Bikes are everywhere on the campus here, parked by the hundreds outside of classroom buildings, or wheeling along the sidewalks, bike lanes, and streets inside the university's gates.
When I stopped at lunchtime today to ask a student for directions to the nearest cafeteria, he pointed me off into the distance but then stressed that it was too far to go on foot. So he offered to give me a lift on the back panel of his beat-up old ride.
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Author: Jeff Young
