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Education: Four Chinese win Rhodes scholarships

Four Chinese students passed a rigorous final round of face-to-face interviews in Shanghai and stood out in a group of 14 final candidates to earn prestigious Rhodes scholarships for postgraduate study at the University of Oxford. Aiming to educate promising students from around the world, Rhodes scholarships cover all expenses at Oxford, about $50,000 per school year. More than 12,000 students worldwide applied for the scholarships this year. The four successful Chinese candidates are Mao Xiao, Li Yuhan, Cao Qitong and Hou Yifan (right). The last name may already be familiar as Hou is a prodigy known as the "Queen of Chess". Other well-known Rhodes scholars include former US president Bill Clinton, Grammy Award winner Kris Kristofferson and former US national security adviser Susan Rice.