They tended to be in smaller authorities where relations were close between headteachers, parents and councillors.
Best of all, she liked solid geometry, a field, she has said, "where relations can be anticipated and are eternal".
That is possible in big cities, where relations are more fragmented, but not in a village, says Ms Wang.
But will the trip make him any more positive about where relations between China and America are heading?Mr Cheney was certainly at pains to be diplomatic.
This was big news among the stroller set in a Brooklyn neighborhood where relations between those with children and those without have often been testy.
It has ramifications far beyond its borders as well, in a region always more diverse than its reputation, where relations between majorities and minorities remain unresolved.
In this, Asia's liveliest democracy, where relations between the two giant neighbours to the north are on the front pages every day, history matters.
The mood, however, is comic, at times boisterously so, and the setting is a world where relations — among classes, between parents and children — seem fixed rather than fluid.
A year later the family is "smuggled" across the border by bootlegging associates of Bellow's father and settle in Chicago, where relations run a baking business.
Street cafés have increasingly become the preserve of men, especially in rural areas where relations between the sexes are still governed by conservative social norms.
This is by no means the only strange backwater in the law, though, especially where relations between the sexes (or indeed within them) are concerned.
