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Beitong is the anonymous author of beijing comrades. In the year since she was barred from the competition, she has been invited to speak at oxford university. In 1931 and 1952, respectively, peking womens normal university and fu jen catholic university merged to create beijing normal university. Beijing university archives delivering a better world. The first ever miss universe china titleholder, zhuo ling, was selected in guangdong province in march, 2002.
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