Earn to learn Share CLOSE Offspring of the Chinese pioneers who once studied at L'Institut Franco-Chinois de Lyon visit an exhibition dedicated to their forebears. [Photo provided to China Daily] Documentary casts a spotlight on the Chinese who once went to France on work-study programs, Xing Wen reports. In 1902, the social activist Li Shizeng (1881-1973) traveled to France to study agriculture in Montargis and biochemistry in Paris, becoming one of the first Chinese students to study in France. Five years later, he published a French book about his study of soybeans that sparked the French people's interest in products made from the crop.