Well Wiki is useful for such brain-gaps. As far as university settings go, I'd say it may be easier to deal with Japan or the USA, I'm not sure though. If you're set on China, there's no reason why we can't do some digging in terms of knowledge. Heh. We'll have to consider what elements originate from each location as well, depending on how in-depth we want to get, it may deal with political crap too, even just lightly.