My Fulbright Experience – Raymond O’Donnell – China 2018
“I just want a salad,” I muttered under a breath of mixed anxiety and exhaustion; a thirteen-hour time difference wasn’t something a young-20-something year old could fake an effort through. “我要买沙拉” “Whoah yo my sha-rah.” “Wǒ yāomǎi shālā,” she said, emphasizing each tone which I had mistaken as intonation at the time. I had no […]
Folk Art from Shaanxi Province, China, shared in Nyeri County, Kenya – Mary Nix Hollowell – China 2013
Three generations of Fan Gao-qis lived inside the compound. Fan Gao-qi Sr. was a small, dignified man, who wore a white button-down shirt. He welcomed us to his home, then ushered us into a first-floor room that served as an art gallery. The walls were completely covered with bright paintings. Some were just canvases. Others […]
Animated China – Tom Gasek – China 2018
I was awarded a five and a half week Fulbright grant to teach animation in northeastern China in the city of Changchun. I was hosted by the Jilin Animation Institute (JAI), one of the very few private institutions that concentrate on the arts in China. As an animator, director, author and teacher, I was excited […]
Fulbright in China: A Transformative Experience – Pat Munday – China 2012 & 2017
Academic exchange as exemplified by the Fulbright Program is fundamental to promoting better global relations. This is especially important for the two superpowers of China and the United States. My first real understanding of Chinese culture came through my friendship with Chinese students as a graduate student in the 1980s. When one of my friends […]
A Fulbright Legacy – John Rosenwald – Germany 1965 and China 1996, 1997, 2001
The Fulbright Commission has provided me with extraordinary opportunities to explore the world beyond the United States and to attempt to build bridges between other countries and our own. As a graduate student at the Universität Tübingen in Germany in 1965-6, I learned much from seeing the intensity of activism against the Vietnam War even […]
Beijing Foreign Studies University – Susan M. Rigdon – China 1992
In August of 1992, I took up residence at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) as a Fulbright Lecturer in American Studies. The remnants of the actions taken against department faculty for supporting the pro-democracy demonstrations of 1989 were still in place. There, troops had been stationed in the building that housed American Studies, while […]
Teaching and Research in Geospatial Data in China – Sima Bagheri – China 2016
Sima Bagheri – Fulbright to China 2016
A Fulbrighter in China: Constructing a Platform for a Cultural Dialogue between Confucianism and American Pragmatism
The Fulbright Mission Statement is rather clear: to promote better relations between the United States and other countries in the world. And probably the most important international relationship in the first decades of the 21st century is that between the remaining superpower with the most developed economy, America, and most populace country with the fastest […]