PEKING University (or Beijing University, widely known as Beida) was formally Jingshi Daxuetang (Metropolitan University) during the imperial Qing Dynasty. It is one of the country’s oldest and most eminent institutes of higher learning, the Chinese equivalent of Harvard in the US. Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940), a former president of the university, was an educational reformer. He successfully synthesized Chinese and Western theories and