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Subject: China News Digest (U.S.), Sun, 11/22/1992
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                                (US Regional)
                          Sunday, November 22, 1992

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1. News Brief (4 Items) ................................................. 40
2. IFCSS News: Meeting with State Department Officers;
               Activity Fund Allocated; Employment Service .............. 59
3. Chinese Academy of Science Plans Summer Workshop in China ............ 20
4. Asian Americans in Science -- Bumping Against Glass Ceilings ......... 60
5. Microsoft Signs Licensing Agreement with Chinese Consortium;
   Compaq Establishes Training Center at Tsinghua University ............ 45
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1. News Brief (4 Items) ................................................. 40
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The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS) is
developing a guide describing graduate schools from the perspective of a
gradate student.  The title is the NAGPS Consumer Guide to Graduate School.
The guide will include general chapters on various gradute topics and
individual entries decribing each campus. Help is needed to write entries in
the guide or collect data for the campus entries. Samples of entries and
other document can be obtained from <NAGPS@WATER.AGEN.UFL.EDU>. Please also
mail to the above address if you think you can help on the project.
(From: John Capece <nagps@water.agen.ufl.edu>)
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Almost all international airlines have special assistanc programs to help
those who have difficulties such as not speaking english.  All one has to do
is fill a form when the passenger who needs special assistance is boarding
the airplane.  Details might vary from airline to airline. This service is
especially useful to CSS whose relatives may need such assistance in
connecting flights and so on.
(From: Zhiyong Shen <zshen@cis.ohio-state.edu>)
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Many of us who are going to go to New York will be concerned about living
as well as eating in New York, timewise and/or moneywise.  I just had such
experience this past weekend.  Here is something for your information.
Living:  Sino-Chinese Inn   $20-$25,  + group discount
         address: 414 West 46 Street, 9-10 Ave. NYC,  Phone:   212-582-2702
Eating:  Golden Plaza  (Szechuan and Hunan Cuisine)
         address: 468 West 47 Street, Corner 10 Ave. NYC, Phone: 212-956-8886
The two places are right at the center of the NY City, and are good to stay.
(Source: soc.culture.china, From: Zhiming <xue@ecs.umass.edu>)
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The Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology will have 12 faculty positions open AT ALL LEVELS for the 1993-94
academic year.  The department has active research groups in the areas of
artificial intelligence, computer engineering, data and knowledge base
management, software engineering, and theoretical computer science. New
faculty are sought for with research interests in these areas as well as
computer graphics, human-computer interaction and other research areas.
Research funding is available through government agencies and
industry-sponsored research institutes at the university, such as the Hong
Kong Telecom Institute of Information Technology and the Sino Software
Research Centre. Detailed information can be obtained from Prof. V. Y. Shen,
Head of the department, at <shen@uxmail.ust.hk>.
(From: Michael D. Stiber <stiber@uxmail.ust.hk>)

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2. IFCSS News: Meeting with State Department Officers;
               Activity Fund Allocated; Employment Service .............. 59
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From: IFCSS HQ <ifcss@wam.umd.edu>
Source: IFCSS HQ NR No. 4070, 4071, 4072, 11/17-19, 1992, abridged by CND

On the afternoon of Nov. 19, IFCSS officers Xiao Geng, Baoping He, Qingsong
Zhang, and Heping Shi were invited to Department of State to meet with Mr.
Robert M. Perito, Director of Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs, and
two other officers.

After IFCSS officers gave an introduction to the organization and its scope
of operation, they were asked about MFN, Radio Free Asia, and Shen Tong's
trip back to China. The IFCSS officers pointed out that it has been the
official stand of the organization to attach well-measured human rights
conditions to China's MFN status and to support the establishment of Radio
Free Asia. As for Shen Tong, IFCSS viewed him as an ordinary student whose
constitutionally granted rights were violated by the Chinese government;
therefore, IFCSS organized efforts to win his release.  The officers also
expressed the hope that the U.S. government would continue to work for the
release of Qi Dafeng and others who were arrested in connections with Shen
Tong.

IFCSS officers expressed their thanks to the Department of State for its
effort to promote human rights in China and provide assistance to Chinese
students in the U.S. in regard to family reunion. It was agreed that the two
sides should continue to work together to keep track of the Chinese human
rights situation.

IFCSS officers also raised the issue of the quota concerning S1216. The
Department of State officers stated that no Chinese student would be forced
back to China; however, it was hard to say exactly how long a student would
have to wait before he could adjust his status, since many procedural issues
would have to be worked out in terms of implementation of the bill.
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With the help of the general CSS community, the IFCSS Health Insurance
Promotion for this term has met the expectations. The IFCSS will allocate
activity fund to local CSS organizations based on their performances in the
promotion of the insurance program. The fund comes from the administrative
fees paid by the insurance company to IFCSS (IFCSS will distribute 40% of
the administrative fees to local CSS.). Forty percent of this fee is
allocated to local CSS organizations.

CSSU at Purdue University is the champion in the first quarter and will
receive $2034.24 activity fees. Four other schools will receive more than
one thousand dollars in activity fees, University of Florida - $1698.96;
Washington State University - $1620.00; University of Iowa, Iowa City -
$1347.36; Mississippi State University - $1186.20. For more information on
how to obtain the local activity fee, please contact IFCSS HQ at
<ifcss@wam.umd.edu>.
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The IFCSS HQ has entered an agreement with a U.S.  Company which has
extensive connections with major U.S.  corporations, to recruit from and
provide to the members of IFCSS employment opportunities with that company.
Employment opportunities are available for students/scholars in the
following fields: Computer, Communications, and Networking. Interested
parties may send applications and resumes to the IFCSS HQ at
<ifcss@wam.umd.edu>.

The company expects to have more than one hundred (100) openings in 1993.
Those openings would mostly be 6-12 month project based contract (some may
be renewed or extended). The company may also refer candidates to other
corporations, such as Boeing, IBM, GM, etc.

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3. Chinese Academy of Science Plans Summer Workshop in China ............ 20
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From: Li Xiaowen <lix@crsa.bu.edu>

Chinese Academic Link (CAL) have received many responses to its call for
proposals of Summer Workshop'93 in China.  25 completed proposals have been
forwarded to the Chinese Natural Science Fundation.

Recently, CAL received 11 copies of replies from the Chinese Academy of
Science (CAS) Open Labs about their interests of workshop topics. With only
one exception, these workshops will not cover international traveling
expense, financial support is limited to in-contry expense only.

The workshop topics that CAS Open Labs are interested in include Aquatic
Genetic Engineering, Fresh Water Ecology, Material physics, Grain/fluid
two-phase flow, Resource and Environment Graphical Information Systems,
Fatigue and rupture of new materials, Frontier and state-of-art of friction
research, Frontier in Surface Physics, Low-dimensional semiconductor
structure physics, Experimental Ocean Aquatic Biology and Technology, and
Environment and Organic Geochemistry.

For detailed information on the workshops, please contact Dr. Li Xiaowen at
<lix@crsa.bu.edu>. CAL can also be contacted for workshop proposals not
listed above.

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4. Asian Americans in Science -- Bumping Against Glass Ceilings ......... 60
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Forwarded and Excerpted by: <sling@ucs.indiana.edu>
Source: Science Magazine, 11/13/92

It would be hard to imagine a more impressive cv in science than Alice
Huang's: Wellesley, a doctorate from Johns Hopskins, full professorship at
Harvard.  By 1989, she had become the first Asian-American to become
president of the American Society of Microbiologists, and one of the first
Asian-Americans to head any national scientific society. A year ago, in
another first, she was named Dean for science at New York University.  On
the surface, it appears that Huang has risen swiftly through the ranks,
unimpeded.  And yet she describes the very real barriers she has
encountered.  Says Huang: "There is no question that a glass ceiling exists
for Asian-American scientists.  I've experienced it.  And the elite
institutions are the worst."  Even after all her successes, she still
remembers one committee that was searching for a woman to fill a "very top
level job" at a prestigious college.  "I realized early on in the interview
that although I was qualified on paper, it was highly unlikely that they
would appoint an Asian-American to the position," she recalls, "consider
they had been so WASP for their whole history.  They were pushing me on what
I would be willing to give up for this job."  In the end, Huang confronted
them: "I told them that I doubted whether they were going to offer this job,
at this time in the history of the institution, to an Asian-American woman."
As she recalls, two of the committee members actually nodded, confirming her
suspicions.

Asians are "overrepresented" in the ranks of science, comprising 7% of all
doctoral scientists working in the US in 1989 (even though they make up only
2.9% of the total population), according to the National Science Foundation.
And they've won a disproportionate number of Nobel prizes.  According to the
NSF, Asian-Americans are not reaching the upper echelons of science and
technology in numbers proportional to their presence as scientists: They lag
behind whites, blacks, and Hispanics in tenure status and academic rank in
the US.  In 1989, only 43% of Asian-American scientists and engineers with
doctorates had tenure, compared with 56% of whites, and only 35% of those
doctorates were full professors, compared with 42% of whites.  And
Asian-Americans have been noticeably absent, at least until very recently,
from leadership positions as deans, institute heads, and advisory board
members.  Of course there are notable exceptions.  Just last year, Chang-Lin
Tien was appointed chancellor of the UC Berkeley.  And Univ. of Pennsylvania
astrophysicist Benjamin Shen was finally named to be the first Asian-
American on the National Science Board.  But these exceptions are recent and
few, raising the question: Why haven't Asian-Americans gained more power in
the scientific establishment?  Most Asian-American scientists are reluctant
to blame blatant discrimination and will say only that cultural differences
and the language barrier may be hurting them.  Of course, many Asians return
to their native countries before they have a chance to climb to the top:
Only about 70% of Asian scientists working here are US citizens, and of
those that come to the US for doctoral or postdoctoral studies, many return
home--particularly the Japanese.  "These days there are many more
opportunities in Japan," says Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa, a MIT
biologist who first came here in 1963.

But what is holding down the Asian scientists who do remain in this country?
For despite their image as naturally gifted scientists, the bulk of them
remain in the rank and file of bench scientists.

In the end, power in the scientific establishment will come as an inevitable
result of the growing number of Asian-Americans.  Predicts Chang-Lin Tien,
"In the coming decade, you will see a lot of prominent Asian-American
scientists in the leadership positions, both inside science and outside it."

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5. Microsoft Signs Licensing Agreement with Chinese Consortium;
   Compaq Establishes Training Center at Tsinghua University ............ 45
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Forwarded by: Jian
Source: NewsBytes, PR NewsWire, 11/19/92 and 11/20/92

Microsoft Corporation has made its entry into the domestic personal computer
market in China with the signing of a landmark licensing agreement with a
consortium of Chinese personal computer manufacturers.

Under the agreement Microsoft will, for the first time, make the MS-DOS
operating system available for installation on locally made PCs for sale on
the PRC market.

Joachim Kempin, Microsoft's vice president for OEM business, explained that,
once Microsoft is satisfied that its OEM support program is working
smoothly, the company's next step will be to identify distribution channels
for its DOS-based applications in China.

"Eventually we want to introduce our whole Windows product line to the China
market too," he said.

Microsoft's business in the PRC will be handled out of the company's
recently formed Greater Chinese Region office in Taipei.  The new regional
operation, which also covers the Taiwan and Hong Kong markets, will be
responsible for the development of Microsoft's Chinese language products.

A traditional Chinese version of Windows is already available on the Taiwan
market and a simplified Chinese version, suitable for the PRC, is under
development. These will be followed up by Chinese language releases of
Microsoft popular application programs over the next year.
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Compaq Computer Corporation says it has opened a $1 million computer
training center at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

The center was officially opened November 19 and was attended by Compaq
President Eckhard Pfeiffer, Tsinghua University President Zhang Xiao Wen,
and Kent Lam, managing director of Eekon Computer Systems Ltd. Eekon
contributed $300,000 towards the cost of renovations, furnishings, hardware,
software, and networking options.  Computerland China is also a partner in
the center. Compaq provided $750,000 worth of hardware, software and
training materials and trained the staff.

Compaq says the center will be used primarily by the four partners to
provide courses on hardware architecture, operating systems, networking, and
computer applications. Students will come from government offices, private
companies, educational institutions, and the general public.

According to Pfeiffer China is a key geographic market for Compaq, and sales
in the country in 1991 were reported "strong."

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