The rooms are spare and chilly, with fluorescent lights and cement floors. These Spartan accommodations are offset by a foreign experts' building which until recently served as a hotel. Right across the street from Bei Wei, and built in the same drab grey-brick style. Students here say the focus is overwhelmingly on learning characters, with a little conversational practice thrown in as an afterthought. The school separates Asian and non-Asian students, but some Westerners enrolled there said the pace was uncomfortably fast even so.
All rooms have telephones.
The school has about 80 foreign students. The advantage to this place appears to be that you can study for as little as a month at a time. Back to top CET . The initials stand for China Educational Tours, the organization which formerly ran the program. Now it's run out of Washington D.C. by an organization called CET Academic Programs.