The Harvard of China was having a special performance at the Beijing Symphony Orchestra.

This is a very big deal.

Black cars are pulling up, valet workers are rushing to open the back door for these

high-profile guests that are in attendance that night.

So the symphony, they usually have a rather high-class demographic, but because this

is hosted by Qinghua University, like the Harvard of China, it's just a different

breed of people, a different class of people.

Couples dress to the nines.

They're gracefully walking into this massive grand theater.

Men in perfectly tailored black suits with their shiny little cufflinks peeking out.

Woman and dresses that are touching the floor and they've got little sparkly clutches.

Everybody smiling at each other.

They're making small conversation while they make their way to their seats.

Imagine a room full of Harvard alumni professors, parents of the students, and donors.

Like the collective power and influence in this very theater that night is kind of scary

to think about.

Some of the most powerful figures in politics, business, finance, health, I mean sectors

of industries that we don't even think about that secretly control everything, they're

probably in that room.

They're gathered in that crowd.

They're sitting and they're waiting for this performance to start.

There was a lot of pressure on the Qinghua University students that would be performing

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