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Personals: In Beijing

 

 
FROM BEIJING—Joan Kaufman worked in the Foundation’s Beijing office from 1996 to 2001 and now is director of the Columbia Global Center there, one of eight education and research facilities throughout the world set up by Columbia University. The Beijing center was one of the first two, opened in 2009. Joan is its third director, overseeing a variety of dialogues and initiatives throughout East Asia.
She’s standing here with her family before the newly restored Bell Tower in China’s capital, whose massive bronze bell behind them was used from ancient times until early in the 20th century to signal the opening and closing of the city gates. Joan is on the right and her husband, Mark Levine, is on the left. Between them are their children, Rosie Levine and Isaac Levine, all of them bundled up to withstand China’s January cold.

 

 

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