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An inquiry was further submitted with the registrars of Harvard Business School and UC Berkeley. Both conducted thorough reviews based on both legal name and alternate names, for any level of degree attainable at the school. Neither school could confirm his attendance. | An inquiry was further submitted with the registrars of Harvard Business School and UC Berkeley. Both conducted thorough reviews based on both legal name and alternate names, for any level of degree attainable at the school. Neither school could confirm his attendance. | ||
Alumni of Peking University provided the information that all graduation essays can be found in the public PKU Library, with records dating back over ten years. Peter claims to have graduated from PKU between 2005 and 2007. A search with his Chinese name in PKU Library did not turn up any graduation essay results (filters are used to limit results to graduation essays). | |||
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== Background in China == | == Background in China == | ||
Peter's Chinese name is 邓麟云. Over ten years ago, in 2008, he founded a charity for volunteer teaching in rural China called 童梦中国. The charity is now defunct. Articles about the charity mention that Peter graduated with a bachelor's from Peking University's Guanghua School of Management and a master's from UC Berkeley (different from the education history on his LinkedIn). Peter has multiple social media accounts in China, one of which contains photos and updates from his charity. | |||
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An essay about entrepreneurship on a Chinese document repository that mentions Peter and his charity<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20221008002828/https://www.renrendoc.com/paper/217901936.html 从《The Social Network》看大学生创业的弱点]</ref>. In it, the author talks about Peter falsifying both his Peking University & Berkeley degrees as a commonly known fact. He defends Peter's actions with the belief that his intentions were to make his charity a success. He dismisses accusations that Peter misappropriated charity funds. These are the passages in the essay relevant to Peter: | |||
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The Baidu Baike of the charity recently edited on September 23, by a member of the Baidu Kedou team, the same group who edited the pages for [[Nogi Shrine]], [[Dewi Sukarno]], and [[Xie Yihua]] just before 813 last year. The user who edited Peter's charity page is a level 13 editor with 100% pass rate, a supermod. | |||
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Public records show that Peter is associated with two companies in China, an apparel company and an education company. The education company had its registration revoked in 2016, for halt in business for over 6 months. However, as recently as January 2022, they were hiring on Chinese job sites. | |||
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Peter's education company, focused on teaching English, was founded in late 2011/early 2012. Another Weibo account belonging to Peter documented in detail Peter's activities in China during this period as he prepared to open his company. On his LinkedIn profile, he claimed to be at Harvard Business School from 2010 to 2012. Peter himself appears to have a very weak grasp of basic English sentence structure. | |||
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== Relationship with Zhang Zhehan == | == Relationship with Zhang Zhehan == | ||