The students I spoke to are the crème de la crème, the best-educated students in China, yet the vast majority of them looked at the photo with the slightest flicker of recognition. ‘Is it in Kosovo?’ one astronomy major asked. A student pursuing a PhD in marketing hazarded a guess, ‘Is it from South Korea?’ ‘I feel that it looks a bit like Tiananmen Square. But it isn’t, is it?’ asked one student doing postgraduate work in education at Beijing Normal University. ...