He left the embassy Wednesday after what Xinhua said was a six-day stay, under an agreement between the U.S. and Chinese governments that he would be allowed to study law at auniversityinChina.
The action, loosely based on a true story and filmed on location at and near a Utah university (and, briefly, inChina), concerns Liu Xing (Liu Ye), a brilliant young astrophysicist from Beijing who travels to the United States for graduate study under Professor Jacob Reiser (Aidan Quinn), a scientist whose work he admires but whose best years and ideas are behind him.