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The article highlights the results of a study which reveals that family background has little influence on a person's occupational status in urban China. The study was presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. More than a thousand men and women in Tianjin were interviewed in November 1986 about their educational and occupational levels and family backgrounds.

The article discusses plans by Duke University to open an overseas campus in Kunshan, China, to be called Duke Kunshan University, and examines skepticism from several school leaders on their efforts to globalize including law professors Paul H. Haagen and James D. Cox and humanities professor Thomas Pfau. Issues including the prestige of Duke University, the educational quality of programs offered at Duke Kunshan, and the global strategies of higher education institutions are also examined.