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FACULTY OVERSEAS TRAVEL AND RESEARCH
Travel in China
 | Dr. Kathryn Edgerton received an National Endowment for the
Humanities Summer Stipend this summer for conducting research in China. She
spent from May 17th through July 15th of 2004 in China. This summer was her
4th research trip to China since 1999. This summer she spent most of her time
in Beijing, where she conducted archival research at the First Historical
Archives of China for her book manuscript on cultural responses to and
depictions of the North China Famine of 1877-1879. She also spent one week
doing follow-up local-level research on how the famine is remembered in
folklore and popular culture in Shanxi Province, where the famine was most
severe. And she visited Qufu and Zouxian in Shandong Province in order to see
the birthplaces of Confucius and Mencius. Finally, she spent one week
traveling through Mongolia with her husband. They visited Ulaanbataar and
Karakorem. |
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| Dr. Allen Wittenborn plans to spend about seven weeks in China. He
will be in Xinjiang for four weeks walking across the Taklamakan desert, and
another three weeks traveling with his wife to the more conventional
destinations: Beijing, Xian, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and a few days on the Yangtze
River. |
Photos provided by Dr. Sandra Wawrytko.
Photos provided by Dr. Sandra Wawrytko.
| Professor Lei Guang traveled to China in the summer to conduct
research on the Overseas Chinese economy in relation to local state
practices. Here are some pictures: |
 
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| Professor Mei Zhong took a group of 16 students to China in Summer 2001.
This was a credited course on Intercultural Communication in China (COMM
496) offered by the School of Communication and through Extended Studies of
SDSU. Students spent most of the three weeks at Tianjin University of
Finance and Economics (TUFE) which has an official exchange program with
SDSU. These students were able to attend classes on Chinese language and
culture taught by Chinese professors, interact with TUFE students, interview
local people on a pre-selected research topic on Chinese culture and
communication, and visited historical and developing areas in Tianjin. They
were also able to visit the Great Wall, the Summer Palace, and the Palace
Museum (Forbidden City) in Beijing. Each student completed a research paper
based on the data collected during the trip and presented to an open public
audience upon returning to the US. |
This activity was reported by the Los Angeles based The Chinese Press
before and after the trip, in April and July 2001.
Chinese Newspapers (Scanned images)
In addition, Dr. Zhong was invited to speak on Intercutlural Communication
to a graduate class at the School of Journalism and Communication at Peking
University, Beijing. Zhong and a student of hers were also interviewed by
the China's International Radio while in Beijing. The one-hour interview
was aired on July 8, 2001.
 Dining at a
resort near Tainjin.
Visiting a pre-school
 Visiting a
Chinese home.
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Professor Pao-chin Chu visited Beijin University. (More
news)
Travel in Taiwan
| INTENSIVE CLASSES IN BUDDHISM OFFERED BY SDSU PROFESSOR Professor
Sandra A. Wawrytko, who teaches in both Asian Studies and Philosophy at SDSU,
will make her regular summer trek to Taiwan to teach at the English Buddhist
College at Fo Guang Shan (Buddha Light Mountain) Temple in Kaohsiung in
June. Three intensive classes will be offered, totalling 54 hours, including
Basic Buddhism, Introduction to Chan Buddhism, and Humanistic Buddhism. Two
seminal Buddhist texts also will be examined, The Heart Sutra and The
Diamond Sutra. Students will include Buddhist nuns and monks, as well as
laypersons. |
| Dr. Wawrytko will also present a paper on "Chinese Philosophy's Links
to Post-modern Science: Chan Insights from Master Hui-neng," at the12th
Inter. Conference on Chinese Philosophy, sponsored by the International
Society for Chinese Philosophy the Graduate School of the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences, the International Institute of Chinese
Philosophy ,the Institute for the History of Chinese Philosophy, July 20-24,
2001. |
| Dr. Ming-Hsiang Tsou went Taiwan for one month during the
summer. He stayed with his parents in Taipei. Dr. Tsou visited National Taiwan University and some other colleges in Taiwan. |
 
(National Taiwan University-- Front Door), (National Taiwan University--
Stadium).
 
(NTU, Main
Avenue), (Taipei City -- Shopping Mall).
Travel in Hong Kong and other Chinese-speaking areas.
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