In 2010 our China programs will be hosted by Gezhi High School.   This school, one of the top high schools in Shanghai, has unparalleled facilities and is located right in the heart of Shanghai.   The school was founded in 1874 by Xu Shou, one of China’s earliest and strongest advocates of modern science, and with the support of the British Consul General.  

Gezhi has maintained its academic leadership across three centuries and continues its tradition of bringing together both Western and Asian learning.   The campus, filling a city block in downtown Shanghai and rising ten stories high, features extensive facilities: air-conditioned classrooms with modern audio-visual equipment and broadband internet connections, four computer labs, a state-of-the-art language lab, a newly remodeled cafeteria, a competition indoor swimming pool, indoor and outdoor basketball courts, and specially equipped rooms for teaching tea ceremony, fencing, martial arts, ping pong, snooker, drama, dance, and chess.   Our programs will have the use of all of these facilities for classes, presentations, workshops, and free-time activities and sports.   Each program will also have a social center at the school open from morning until 10:15 each evening.   Breakfasts, lunches, and some dinners will be taken at the school.

Besides its outstanding facilities, Gezhi High School’s location is ideal for an educational experience.   The school is just three blocks from People’s Square, the location of three museums, the Shanghai Museum, the Shanghai Art Museum, and the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as the Shanghai Grand Theatre, the Shanghai Concert Hall, and the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall.   Providing easy access to all areas of Shanghai, the People’s Square Metro Station, the intersection of three subway lines stretching out in all directions, is just a short walk from the school.   Nanjing Road, the most famous shopping street in China, is ten minutes away, and the Bund and Old Town are within a twenty-minute walk.