The resourceful Scott family ultimately used the Internet to bypass the brokers and cut a deal directly with the First Affiliated Hospital at the College of Medicine of the Zhejiang University in Hangzhou.

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He also started the Morningside Center of Mathematics in Beijing in 1995 and the Center of Mathematical Science in Zhejiang University in Hangzhou--100 miles southwest of Shanghai and one of China's oldest universities--in 2002.

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On the side, he plans to open a tai chi club with the actor Jet Li, build an entrepreneurship university in Hangzhou and continue to work on several social and environmental initiatives, including one with the Nature Conservancy.

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In one of several university mergers to have taken place recently, four institutions in the city of Hangzhou have been merged to form Zhejiang University, China's largest.

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