In the Year of the Pig, 2007, Part I

In the Year of the Pig: Postcards from China, 2007 Faculty Study Tour: Part I World on Wednesday Presentation By Participant Prof. Wilma Jones, Chief Librarian February 2008

Study Tour of Six Cities in CHINA
Six Cities
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Suzhou
Nanjing
Beijing
Xi’an

Introducing my fellow travellers on the study tour

Ann Helm, Leader, Director of the Center for International Services, greets Fullbright Scholar

David Gordon, Prof. of Chinese History, Bronx Community College

Tom Lo, Graduate Admissions Officer, Baruch College

Cate Marvin, Prof. of English, CSI

Michael Daniels, Associate Dean of Student Affairs, CSI

Allison Douglas-Chicoye, Director, Transfer Services, LaGuardia Community College

Zavi Baynes, Career Advisor, Brooklyn College Rosa Kelley, Foreign Student Advisor, CSI Catherine Lavendar, Prof. of American History, CSI

Cuihua Zhang, Prof. of Computer Science, N.E. Lakeview College, TX

And… Wilma Jones, Chief Librarian, CSI

Our Leaders in CHINA

Jun Zhou, Director, Beijing Epoch Training Company

In Hong Kong
Our Hosts from
Hong Kong – American Center, Dr. Glenn Shive, Director
City University of Hong Kong, Dr. Lindsay Miller, Associate Dean of Administration

In Nanjing: Dr Yang, Prof. of Linguistics

Our Bus Driver – In Shanghai, Suzhou, and Nanjing

Some background info
About CHINA

CHINA opened its door to the world in 1978… and its financial industry in 1994

In 1994:
1000 manufacturing industries
58 Banking industries
321 financial industries
In 2004:
8590 manufacturing industries
534 banking industries
532 financial industries
CHINA – 10 year span

Further about the economy…
U.S. is the 2nd largest investor in China.
Hong Kong is 1 st
Japan is 3 rd

Since 1994,
75% of U.S. manufacturing done in China
Includes automobiles (GM), white utilities, white appliances, and computer materials
9% of U.S. banking done in China

And politically…
One state – CHINA
Two political systems
Communism in mainland China & minimalist democracy in Hong Kong

Education Reform since 1978
Academic institutions are responding to pressure by market driven forces
Private / for-profit institutions competing with traditional institutions

Education Reform …
Online institutions competing with traditional radio- and television-based educational institutions

Greetings from Hong Kong

We flew in on July 8, 2007, at the end of Hong Kong’s week long celebration of the 10 th Anniversary of their integration with China (June 30, 1997)

HONG KONG: 2 nd Largest Container Port in the World

Hong Kong reminded us of NY City
Subways & ferries connect the islands of Hong Kong
A bustling city of 7 million people, & 25 million tourists/yr

Hong Kong at Night

We visited
The City University
of
Hong Kong

City University of Hong Kong
25,000 students, 12000 are self-financed
1036 full time faculty
School of Continuing Education programs populated by mainland graduate Chinese students

City University of Hong Kong Students, now studying at CSI

To Shanghai Known as the Financial headquarters of China

Greetings from Shanghai

Shanghai meets New Shanghai (spectacular buildings since 1997) across the Huang Pu River

SHANGHAI
Population of 13.5 million
Largest seaport in mainland China
Home to VW, Mercedes, GM, and the “Chery,” China’s first automobile

Shanghai’s skyline at night -- spectacular!

The familiar…everywhere

We visited
Shanghai University

Shanghai University
Home to 55,023 studts; 3010 faculty
Exchange programs with CSI

Learning Commons, SU Library

Residential Halls at SU – holds 90% of students

VP of Student Affairs, SU 2003 Exchange Scholar to CSI

Mike Daniels with Students at Shanghai University

Basketball Team at SU (Who said there were no tall people in China?)

Dorm room at Shanghai U.

By bus we traveled 2hrs to the 3rd city on our schedule, SUZHOU (pronounced “Sue-Joe”)

A town of 6 million people, SUZHOU is a city caught between maintaining the traditional while modernization raps on the door incessantly

Hence, in SUZHOU, we saw progressive education programs

Suzhou Provincial High School

School for Children with special needs

Ping-Pong Olympic Training Camp

Library at Suzhou Industrial Park

Also industries everywhere in SUZHOU

Silk Worm Factory

Silk Embroidery Research Institute

Carpet Factory in Suzhou. Exports primarily to Japan and U.S.

Pottery Factory

Suzhou is also known for its spectacular traditional Chinese gardens Former retreats for the educated and the wealthy

The Humble Administrator’s Garden

Four elements used in the design of a classic garden:
water, rock, plants, and architecture

A window into the world outside

A picture within a picture

Path ways and Hall ways

… even the restroom

SUZHOU is also home to
I.M. Pei,
Chinese Architect in the U.S. famous for glass buildings
Hancock Tower, Chicago
JFK Library, Boston
Louvre Pyramid, Paris

I.M. Pei Museum, Suzhou

Agricultural farms surround SUZHOU

Zucchini’s hanging from the trestles

Female farmers

Male farmers

Ducks, Pheasants, Peacocks…

Lotus, the national plant of China, everywhere…

By bus…on to Nanjing
Ancient Capital of CHINA for 6 dynasties, ending in 1911
Population of 8.2 million

Greetings from Nanjing
Home to Sun Yat-Sen’s Mausoleum
Surrounded by the Purple Mountains
Home of the Yangtze River

City Wall of Nanjing
75% of 20 miles of its City wall mostly intact, with 13 gates

We visited
Nanjing University --
One of the most prestigious universities in China, est. 1902

Nanjing University
Known for its
School of Foreign Studies
Center for Chinese & American Studies, co-founded with Johns Hopkins U.
41,600 students

Nanjing University Library, holds 4 million volumes

Just around the corner, House of Pearl Buck, Author of The Good Earth .

Off to sight-seeing in Nanjing…

Nanjing Public Library

Dr. Sun Yat Sen’s Mausoleum
We climbed 376 steps up to the Mausoleum on one of the hottest days (some ran up to the theme of ROCKY !)

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925)
Chinese revolutionary leader
Brought down the Qing Dynasty in 1911

Also in NANJING
The City experienced the bloodiest battle between Japan and China in 1937, now known as the Rape of Nanking in 1937
– 400,000 people killed

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In the Year of the Pig, 2007, Part I

by Wilma Jones

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