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Bard in China Exchanges
The Chinese language program (now in cooperation with Vassar College) takes students to Qingdao University, on the coast of the Shandong peninsula, for an intensive two months of summer study after completion of first-year Chinese at Bard. Bard's language tutors are selected from among the Qingdao faculty. Concact Professor Li-hua Ying (ying@bard.edu) for more information.
After two or more years of college-level Chinese, Bard and non-Bard students and graduates may apply to the Bard Summer Advanced Chinese with Research Practica - 2010 & 2011. Inexpensive, intensive applied, advanced Chinese study in China. This is an eight-week sumer program at Qingdao University, Students attend advanced Chinese classes in the mornings and do research projects related to their senior projects or graduate interested in the afternoons and evenings, each with the help of a Qingdao University advisor in the appropriate field and a research buddy selected by that professor.
Lingnan University Hong Kong is a tuition exchange partner with Bard. Apply for a semester of study there, in English, in social sciences and humanities. Located in a NW suburb of Hong Kong, the university offers many opportunities to learn about Asia. www.ln.edu.hk/omip.
Students from Lingnan University have spent semesters at Bard starting with the 2005-2006 academic year. It is hoped that Bard students in turn will spend semesters at Lingnan University, a well-organized, liberal arts university. Since many of the courses are taught in English, Chinese language ability is not needed. Furthermore, Hong Kong is in the unusual situation of being both united with and separate from China. It is a truly unique and very exciting place from the standpoint of economics, politics, and social policy. Students can work out individualized programs to take advantage of opportunities to do research or internships in Hong Kong. Because of the ocean, the deep harbor, and the breeze, the climate is much fresher than one would expect from either the latitude or the size and denseness of the city. Furthermore, it offers easy access to many other parts of Asia. Student Exchange: http://www.ln.edu.hk/oip/siep/partner.htm
The Visiting Tutor Scheme is administered by the Lingnan University English Department. In addition to paying quite well and providing housing, it allows the tutors to develop projects in line with their individual skills and interests. A tutor can either live modestly and begin paying off student loans or enjoy travels to a wide variety of Asian destinations: Tibet, Vietnam, the Philippines and so forth.
Visiting Tutor Scheme: http://www.ln.edu.hk/eng/tutor.htm
Bard also does exchanges with Japan and Korea.
Contact:
Katherine Gould-Martin
Phone: 845-758-7388
E-mail: gould@bard.edu
Location: Brook House 104
Bard College
2007-2008
Professor Chongke Zhu, born in Confucius' home town of Qufu, with degrees in Chinese literature from Sun Yat-sen University and the National University of Singapore, took leave from the department of Chinese at Sun Yat-sen University to teach at Bard. He taught Reflections of China in Literature and Film and First Year Seminar in Chinese.
2006-2007
Professor May Bo Ching, with degrees from Oxford and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, took leave from the history department of Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University to teach Advanced Chinese and Reflections of China in Literature and Film. She also taught First Year Seminar in Chinese, a course started at the request of President Leon Botstein for the Chinese Music Conservatory students whose preparation in English was inadequate to read the English translations of the great works covered. This allowed them an immediate immersion in the intellectual experience of a liberal arts education while they were still struggling to master English.
2005-2006
Professor Jian (James) Xu, with degrees from Princeton and Beijing University, took leave from the history department of Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University to teach Advanced Chinese and Archaeology & Ancient Chinese Art at Bard. This is part of a long-term ongoing relationship with Sun Yat-sen University.
2004-2005
Bard hosted, jointly with SUNY New Paltz, Xiangrong Wang, a professor of urban ecology and environmental planning from Fudan University in Shanghai. He worked with the Center for Environmental Policy, taught and undergraduate course in Environmental Policy and Practice in China, and has since worked with the Bard High School Early College on student exchanges involving research along the Hudson And Huangpo Rivers.
2001-2002
Bard in China brought in Bard Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Qiyu Tu, an economist from the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He taught a course on the Economies of Asia, introducing economics into Asian Studies and vice versa. Sanjaya DeSilva has continued to offer this course.
2001-2006
The program also oversaw Bard's Freeman Undergraduate Asian Studies Initiative, established with a grant from the Freeman Foundation. This grant funded three faculty positions, library and film resources, and faculty and student study and research in Asia. Fourteen faculty have done short term research in Asia with this funding and developed 27 new courses. One trip resulted in joint theater productions with the Shanghai Theater Academy involving faculty, staff and students working together on a new version of a Brecht play. The productions were held in the new theaters of the respective schools in October '03 at Bard and January '04 in Shanghai. Twenty-one students have been funded for senior project research in Asia, eleven of them in China. Their topics were in political sciences, studio art, art history, history, religion, theater, psychology, music, and economics.
In addition, graduate students from both The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture and from the Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture, accompanied by the director of the Bard in China program, have conducted research in China. The director has explored a variety of potential internship sites in China for students in the Bard Center for Environmental Policy (BCEP). With funding from the Luce Foundation, BCEP has brought over three Chinese students from their partner school, Nankai University in Tianjin, for advanced study.
Five Bard students of Chinese have taught English at high schools in the Shanghai area; many others have returned to China for work or study. The program attempts to stay in touch with graduates who have lived in China after graduation, so that they may advise subsequent graduates who wish to study, teach, or work in China.
In addition to the many Chinese students who enter Bard's regular program, we are honored to have terrific musicians from the high schools attached to the Central Conservatory and the Shanghai Conservatory and from other high schools. These students have entered the Bard Conservatory of Music, where they will obtain professional music training as well as major in a non-music area. Please come and hear them in concert with their fellow students from the US and elsewhere!
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