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SUMMARY:A Lifetime Opportunity!
DESCRIPTION:(By Areeya Lena Tivasuradej\, China Council Scholarship Recipient) \nChengdu is indeed a layback city as they claim. One thing that grasped my heart was the abundance of tea houses or tea gardens. Walking through a tea house\, you can hear the locals chatting loudly in thick Sichuan dialect interrupted occasionally by the sound of crashing mahjong tiles and the cracking sound of peanuts. Once in a while\, you will hear a high pitch jingle sound from the “ear cleaners.” This autumn was often warm and sunny\, something that was odd in the cloudy Chengdu\, but the humidity hit the hardest as winter crawled. The lack of sunlight mixed with a little bit of air pollution made everyday feel too cold for a Southern Californian who felt homesick every time the sun peaked out. I spent the first two months strolling around the city silently with my poor Chinese to get familiar with my new home. Chengdu is not big but it is nevertheless full of places to be explored. The famous attractions\, to name a few\, are the panda reserve\, Dufu Cottage\, Sichuan Museum\, and Qing Yang Temple. The periphery of Chengdu is definitely not to be ignored with the prestigious Emei Mountain and the Giant Buddha at Le Shan Mountain. Two hours and a half of high speed railway also took me to Chengdu’s hilly competitor\, Chongqing. When asked the locals from the two cities\, the comparisons reminded me of the Los Angeles versus San Francisco debate. \nThe most welcoming feeling I received was from my supervisor and his graduate students. It was difficult for me the first couple of months to communicate with them because I basically knew zero Chinese\, but they tried to dig out every English word they remembered and occasionally used their cell phones for accurate translation. In the meantime\, I spent the weekdays in Chinese language classes and once a week to practice tai ji and Chinese calligraphy. Chinese culture is very different from American. I learned from my own mistakes and from both international and Chinese students’ anecdotes. Funny thing is the birthday boy/girl has to buy his/her friends dinner not the friends. I made more Chinese friends as my Chinese progress. Aside from learning\, I also taught English twice a week to college freshmen and sophomores and volunteered with a local environmentaloriented NGO. \nNext semester\, I will be teaching a class on geographical information system to entering graduate students. Of course\, it will be in English. By the end of the scholarship\, I hope to take the Chinese language standardized test (HSK). The scholarship undeniably gave me a once in a lifetime opportunity to study in China. The opportunity I always dreamt about but never thought it would come true. Thank you\, Dr. Sun\, Dr. Su\, and everyone at CSUN China Institute for giving me this opportunity.
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SUMMARY:Great Turnout for the Exhibition and Lectures
DESCRIPTION:The exhibition “Tales of Our Time: Two Contemporary Artists from China” opened as scheduled between Aug. 29 and Oct. 8 in 2011 at California State University Northridge Art Galleries with a great turnout. Several members of the CSUN International Educational Council and the CSUN China Institute Executive Committee\, among many faculty and administers from the university\, attended the Artist Reception on Sept. 9th and visited the exhibition. \nThe visiting artist Weng Fen gave three very well-received lectures on his art making process and ideas behind his individual artworks. Weng Fen delivered his first lecture in Chinese to a group of Chinese American and Chinese audiences. The event was sponsored by the Cultural Enrichment Coalition\, a non-profit organization located in Chatsworth\, CA. \nWeng Fen’s second lecture took place in the Art Department and the audience consisted of faculty and graduate students from the department. His third lecture was delivered for campus and community-wide general audiences in the Art Galleries\, attended by an unprecedented number of more than one hundred and twenty people—many of them had to stand or sit on the floor. The last two lectures were also delivered in Chinese with the curator Dr. Meiqin Wang serving as the interpreter. \nDr. Meiqin Wang gave a Gallery Talk on Monday\, Sept. 12th\, which was also attended by more than one hundred and twenty audiences. Several professors and teachers from local high schools brought their entire classes to see the exhibit and learn about what was happening in China. It was a great opportunity for understanding contemporary Chinese art and the ongoing social transformations in China\, as said by many. \nThe exhibition was the product of collaboration between Dr. Meiqin Wang and her students in two Exhibition Design courses offered by the Art Department in every spring semester. In addition\, the exhibition catalog included two critical essays contributed by two senior art history students who took one of the Exhibition Design courses. \nDr. Meiqin Wang\nAssistant Professor\nDepartment of Art \nVisit Exhibition Website \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n 
URL:https://news.csun.edu/event/great-turnout-for-the-exhibition-and-lectures/
CATEGORIES:College of humanities,Cultural Studies
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SUMMARY:Mike Curb College of Arts\, Media\, and Communication Delegation of Three Visits China
DESCRIPTION:This past summer\, Dr. Maureen Rubin\, the associate dean of the Mike Curb College of Arts\, Media\, and Communication (MCCAMC)\, led Dr. Lynette Henderson and Dr. Meiqin Wang\, two Art Department faculty\, on a delegation visit to China designed to develop collaboration between CSUN and universities in Shanghai and Wuhan. Wang and Henderson were also on a separate mission to research art education in China\, partially supported by a faculty development grant from the China Institute. \nThe three were in China from June 8th to June 22nd 2012 and visited Shanghai Normal University (SHNU)\, Shanghai Sanda University (SSU)\, Wuhan University (WU)\, and Central China Normal University (CCNU). They met with officers from International Offices\, vice presidents\, deans\, chairs\, and faculty members from relevant departments from these universities. At each university\, Dr. Rubin introduced academic programs of MCCAMC and participated in discussions about the possibility of future collaborative educational programs. \nOn the last day of the visit to CCNU\, Dr. Rubin drafted and presented a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to a working meeting scheduled by the International Office of CCNU and participated in by four deans or representatives from CCNU and Wuhan University and all three CSUN delegation members. The MOU aimed to enhance mutual understanding and promote collaboration between CSUN and Chinese faculty and students. It was verbally approved and later developed as the formal agreement\, signed on August 15\, by CSUN President Dianne F. Harrison and Central China Normal University President Zongkai Yang\, who led his delegation’s visit to CSUN. In Spring 2013\, both SSU in Shanghai and CCNU in Wuhan plan to send visiting scholars to CSUN’s Art Department to study and hold further conversations about student and faculty exchange programs and collaborative research possibilities between universities. \nWhile visiting these universities in Shanghai and Wuhan\, the three CSUN members gave lectures to faculty and students regarding art education and journalism in the United States\, focusing on CSUN’s distinctive programs. They also met and enjoyed intellectual exchanges with faculty who are researching journalism and art education. The three also visited three elementary schools in Shanghai where they met with art teachers observed art classes. The CSUN visitors were extremely impressed by these schools’ investments in art education. \nThe visit was a successful\, productive\, and memorable one and by all accounts\, it should lead to many mutually beneficial programs and projects in the near future. \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n 
URL:https://news.csun.edu/event/mike-curb-college-of-arts-media-and-communication-delegation-of-three-visits-china/
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