trip wrap up - sharing photos, thank yous

[clay dube]

Hi Folks,

The group asked, so I created a new Google email/drive account:

 

[email protected]
PW: chinataiwan2018

I have created folders for each day (e.g., Beijing-20180629 -- it uses the Chinese date structure year-month-day, which works well with computers). Please upload the photos you wish to share into the relevant folders. You may wish to add your name to the file name so that we don't get 14 me-on-the-great-wall.jpg photos. For example, KristenWaltz-pandas-chengdu-20180703.jpg  It is okay if you just upload a bunch of photos without naming them, but naming and organizing them is a big help. The attached itinerary may help you with the organization.

To upload your photos to the drive, go to https://drive.google.com/ and log in using the address and password above. You then click on "my drive" and chose upload files.

In my next post to this thread, I'll post information about thank you notes. Below are some of the CTBC Brothers fans we saw at the ballpark in Taipei on Thursday evening, 2018.07.12.

 

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[clay dube]

Thanking those who helped make the trip possible -  

The following institutions and individuals made our 2018 USC NCTA study tour to China and Taiwan possible. In writing cards or letters to thank them (those names/addresses are in bold), please tell them a bit about yourself and what you teach. Please devote the bulk of your letter to discussing the trip, including those elements you considered special. What are you taking to your students? Was it particularly useful to travel with us and with NCTA alumni? You may wish to include a photo or two. I think Mr. Freeman and other trustees would be delighted to know about the family visit, exchanges with students and teachers, and the unique opportunities we had with Patrick Chuang, with Foreign Minister Wu, and in examining linkages past and present.

The email thank yous to Wang Lei and our Ambassador Hotel help can be more casual. I’m sure they’d appreciate a photograph or two as well.
 

Graeme Freeman
President
The Freeman Foundation
1601 East West Road
Honolulu, HI  96848

The Freeman Foundation provides the core funding for National Consortium for Teaching about Asia programs across the U.S. Its grant to the USC U.S.-China Institute made this trip possible.

 

All the China visits (except for Haipawang in Chengdu) were arranged by our longtime travel agent Mr. Wang Lei. We’ve been working with him since 2004. He is Alan No. 1.

Wang Lei email:  [email protected]

 

Dr. Joseph Wu
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Republic of China
2 Kaitakelan Blvd., Taipei, 100
Taiwan (R.O.C.)
 

Mr. Remus Chen
Director-General, North American Section
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Republic of China
2 Kaitakelan Blvd., Taipei, 100
Taiwan (R.O.C.)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs handled many of our logistical challenges, arranging meetings and visits. It also provided for all our transportation in Taiwan (buses and trains). Please emphasize Taiwan in your comments.

Please also send email thank yous to
Gary Huang  [email protected] (Gary made all the arrangements and met us at the airport in Taipei.)
David Chen, Deputy Director of LA Taipei Economic and Cultural Office  [email protected] (Deputy Director Chen formally requested MOFA assistance for our tour.)
 

Mr. Emmet Hsu
Chairman
Ambassador Hotel
No. 63, Section 2, Zhongshan North Road
Zhongshan District, Taipei City  104
Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Mr. Hsu provided all your lodging and most of your meals in Taiwan. He also assigned his top managers, Frank Lin, Philip Lee, and Ken Chen, to prepare for the trip and assigned his younger staffers, Teresa Hsiao, Jamson Chen and Winnie Lin, to escort us around Taipei, Kaohsiung and Tainan.

Ken’s email: [email protected]
Teresa’s email: [email protected]
Jamson’s email: [email protected]
CORRECTION: [email protected]
Winnie’s email: [email protected]

Mr. Patrick Chuang
Hai Pa Wang
889 Haibawang Road
Anjing Town, Pi County
Chengdu, Sichuan Province  611731
People’s Republic of China
四川省成都市郫县安靖镇海霸王路889号

 

Chinese television featured the family’s business (using the pinyin romanization Zhuang): https://america.cgtn.com/2017/10/30/taiwanese-businesses-eye-chinas-huge-market-potential .

 

Finally, you can help us immensely by sharing pictures of your trip with colleagues and friends and pointing them to our website: https:china.usc.edu. If you share pictures via Facebook or Twitter, please do link to us there as well:

https://www.facebook.com/uschinainstitute

https://twitter.com/USC_USChina

And don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube videos. They are well worth your time.

https://www.youtube.com/user/USChinaInstitute
 

Below, three of the many happy hot pot eaters in Chengdu.

 

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[Barbara Miller]

Hi Clay!

Yes, the presentation went well. Thank you. 

Four of the others who were supposed to present were not able to attend, so I had the chance to talk one-on-one to several teachers who were especially interested in China and Taiwan or NCTA.  Having a site nearby at IU really helps sell the study courses!

I've been working hard on my lesson plans before school begins next week and am just wondering where you would like them posted. I may have missed it. On the G Drive in the cities folders?  Here in the forum?   

If a place has not been created, can we create folders for subject areas in the G-Drive?  You could always post them for NCTA wherever you wanted later.

Let me know.  I hope to be finished tomorrow.

All the best,

Barb

[clay dube]

Hi Barb,
Congrats on your presentation and one on one conversations with colleagues.

Photos should go to the Google Drive. Lesson plans should be posted to:
https://china.usc.edu/k12/forums/forums/lesson-plans

Please put your last name and then your lesson plan topic in the subject line. You can attach documents (pdf format - many word processors can save to pdf format, but you can also use the free online conversion tools) and images.
 

[Gabriel Valdez]

Hope this email finds everyone well. I spent the rest of the summer travelling. In fact, I didn't get into Fort Worth until the 19th and we started on the 20th. Needless to say that I'm playing catch up as I didn't have my computer with me over summer. I was interviewed for the project and NCTA in general - it was pretty cool. I'm still working on the curriculum but it has been a lot of fun remembering such great times with amazing people. 

If you have Facebook, I have a Global Studies / World Cultures Geography and History group - you all are invited. Once I finish the project I will send it out to everyone. Waiting on funding - but it has been picked up by a couple of conferences. 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1744836412276153/

[clay dube]

Hi Folks,

I hope that you folks will stay within our NCTA circle. Post when you can on what you're doing with East Asia and your students and perhaps what interesting news about East Asia that you come across.

This story is stunning. If you needed proof that Taiwan has rule of law and freedom of speech, please check out this story about a Taiwanese developer who has grabbed a Buddhist temple (a court ruled in his favor), evicted the nuns and converted it to a shrine to China's Communist Party and unification with the mainland. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/world/asia/taiwan-china-reunification-buddhism.html

 

[Kristen Waltz]

I'll be doing a lesson on Chinese-Taiwanese relations soon in a Contemporary World class, so this should fit in nicely!

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