Former Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman ’77 was recently awarded the People’s Republic of China Friendship Award for his work as the founding dean of Peking University School of Transnational Law.

A summer in Beijing.

The number of Chinese students enrolled at Cornell has more than doubled in the past four years, rising from 401 in 2006 to 835 in 2010.

The Sun checks out Ghost Town, a documentary about rural life in China, at Cornell Cinema.

Steven Zhang '12 refutes author Amy Chua's claim that Chinese parents raise more "succesful" kids.

Michael and Oscar debate the facts about China; Dwight cuts back on office expenditures.

Today, America is in the midst of a health crisis: the leading cause of death is heart disease, two-thirds of the nation’s adults are obese and increasing proportions of children are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes. These health problems threaten a new generation of Americans, and as a consumer-mentality pushes Americans toward prescription drugs, retired Prof. T. Colin Campbell, nutritional science, advocates that the healing process must begin with a fork and knife at dinner tables.

After a screening of two of his documentaries, Tongzhi In Love and The Blood of Yingzhou District, Thomas Lennon spoke to The Sun about his process, his subjects and making documentaries that make an impact.

Hello again. Welcome back to beautiful Ithaca, land of chapped lips and unattractive winter boots. I hope you all had a great break — though I'm not sure it could have been as interesting as mine.