As the plane landed at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on July 15, Wen Yunhao, a fourth-year undergraduate majoring in history at Peking University, looked out the window at a view that was at once familiar and strange.
It was the same airport that he had landed at seven years ago, when he and his family took a trip to the island. But this time, apart from the familiar rush of excitement, he was laden with anxieties—anxieties about the countless unknowns that awaited him.
However, his worries quickly melted as he and his travel buddies walked out of the gate into a welter of flowers, waving hands, and friendly greetings. And this was the beginning of the first visit made by a delegation of mainland universities to the island in more
