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The ChinaVine Team wishes you a Happy Chinese New Year!

ChinaVine in the Classroom

We have been so happy to have Chinese students from the Oregon International Internship Program integrate ChinaVine into their curriculum within Eugene schools this term. Most recently, Lin Ying Xin shared ChinaVine with a group of students that participate in a Mandarin Club that meets after school at Oak Hill. “My students were very excited […]

Tai Chi Presentation

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/32434468[/vimeo] During a recent ChinaVine presentation by UO faculty Doug Blandy and Scott Huette, Huette discussed working among China’s Tai Chi masters at the White Cloud Taoist Temple and the Temple of Heaven park. He highlighted specifically on his experience interviewing Tai Chi Master Li, and pushing hands with one of his students, a provincial […]

dispersal

We’ve finished the fieldwork/residency phase of the field school, and rather successfully at that! Now we move on to various locations: Shanghai, Tsingtao, other parts of Beijing, or all the way back to Oregon. We will reconvene at the beginning of August—from wherever we all are—in order to process fieldwork materials into ChinaVine content (initially […] […]

Field school progress…

At this point, we are more than halfway through our Beijing-based, ChinaVine-driven field school, and everything is moving along according to—and in many ways, exceeding—our plans. As co-directors, we spent many hours planning and imagining the experience we’d like students to have in Beijing, the whole time realizing that, ultimately, much of the experience would […] […]