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The National Taiwan Normal University Mandarin Training Center (MTC), established in 1956, is Taiwan’s best-known Chinese language institute. In cooperation with the Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, the MTC is dedicated to the further developments in Chinese language education and is recognized as one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions. Many of the tens of thousands of alumni that have passed through our doors are now successful in their chosen fields of politics, economics, diplomacy, culture, and education. MTC students come from over 60 countries around the world, which creates a highly diversified international study environment. Many renowned universities in various countries recommend our center to their students and convert grades from the Mandarin Training Center into college credits.
 

The Overseas Young Chinese Forum ("OYCF"), a non-profit organization based in the United States, is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for its Teaching Fellowships, which sponsor short term teaching trips by overseas scholars or professionals to universities or other comparable advanced educational institutions in China. The subjects of teaching include various fields of humanities and social sciences, specifically, economics, political science, sociology, education, anthropology, philosophy and history.

 

OYCF will grant 8 fellowship awards, including 5 OYCF-Ford fellowships in the amount of $2,250 each and 3 OYCF-Gregory Chow fellowships in the amount of $2,000 each, to support short term teaching trips during the academic year of 2004-2005. The application deadline is July 31, 2004. Awards will be announced on August 31, 2004.  Additional fellowships may be available depending on funding.

 

If you have a Ph.D., J.D., S.J.D. or a comparable graduate degree from, or is currently an advanced doctoral candidate in, a university in North America or other areas outside of China, and are interested in teaching a covered subject in a Chinese college or graduate school, please find on line the Information and Application Procedures for the OYCF Teaching Fellowships at http://www.oycf.org/Teach/application.DOC.  As noted therein, preference will be given to teaching proposals that include comparative or interdisciplinary perspectives, are about subjects that China is in relative shortage of teachers, or will be conducted at universities outside Beijing, Shanghai and other major metropolises.

This year, we intend to dedicate one of the eight fellowships as the West Region Teaching Fellowship to have one teaching fellow teach in a western inland province or autonomous region such as the Tibet Autonomous Region.  Accordingly, teaching proposals especially designed for teaching in Tibet or other western regions will be given preference for this fellowship.  Initial feedback from Tibet University at Lhasa suggests that applicants intending to teach in Tibet should consider adopting teaching materials in Chinese or more basic English teaching materials as a practical matter.

To submit your application, you will need an application form, your curriculum vitae or resume, a detailed course syllabus, information about the host institution in China except for Tibet University, and a reference. Information and application form can be found at the above web address.  You can visit http://www.oycf.org/Teach/fellowship.htm to take a look at syllabi and teaching reports from previous years.

 

For more information about OYCF or its teaching program, please visit http://www.oycf.org. For questions concerning OYCF Teaching Fellowships or their application process, please contact teaching@oycf.org.

Duan Wu, Junling Ma, Hao Zou and Lu Zheng

OYCF Teaching Fellowship Selection Committee

The FU FOUNDATION, a tax-exempt foundation, was organized in 1997 in loving memory of the life and work of CHARLES WEI-HSUN FU (1933-1996), scholar and teacher extraordinaire. A native of Taiwan, Dr. FU graduated from Taiwan University with a degree in Philosophy, where he taught for several years. Later he continued his studies at UC Berkeley, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Illinois, completing a Ph.D. in Philosophy.

 

After 25 years at Temple University he took early retirement to serve as a founding member of the Fo Guang University faculty in Taiwan, directing the Institute of Life and Death Studies. His untimely death occurred at the peak of his professional career. As his legacy he left numerous publications in Chinese and English, from scholarly tomes to popular essays. He is perhaps best known for his ground breaking Chinese works: The Life of Learning and the Learning of life: My Philosophical Development (1994) and Dignified Death and Dignified Life: From Thanatological Psychiatry to the Post-Traditional Learning of Life and Death (1993).

 

Dr. Fu was instrumental in bringing the work of other authors to the reading public through his nine series of Chinese and English language books, ranging from Asian Thought and Culture to Modern Buddhism, Current Global Trends,and Life-and-Death Studies.

 

Following the path blazed by Dr. FU, the Foundation seeks to support the comparative and intercultural study of Philosophy as well as bold new interpretations of Asian Philosophies, including Confucianism, Neo-Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism.

 

www.charleswei-hsunfufoundation.org