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Through a Different Lens

Sam Gehrke documenting noodle making with Mr. He

ChinaVine emphasizes the importance of educating English-speaking children, youth, and adults about the material and intangible culture of China. Of equal importance are the first hand experiences associated with the researchers, such as Sam Gehrke, who gather ChinaVine’s impactful material.

For Gehrke, currently a senior […]

December 8th, 2011 | Category: beijing, ChinaVine, collaboration, contemporary art, cultural tourism, documentation, education, fieldwork, Research, Uncategorized | Comments are closed

Dough Figure Workshop at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

#gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 20%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ An after-school class at the JSMA recently used ChinaVine resources to inspire and create their own kind of dough figures. Specifically, students examined the work of Liang Xiucai of Lang Village in the Shandong Province. To learn more on this process, check out information provided on our ChinaVine website here.

November 23rd, 2011 | Category: ChinaVine, collaboration, education, Uncategorized | One comment - (Comments are closed)

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 […]

November 15th, 2011 | Category: ChinaVine, collaboration, Culture, fieldwork, Tai Chi | Comments are closed

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 […] […]

July 19th, 2011 | Category: beijing, ChinaVine, chinavine.org, collaboration, coursework, Culture, education, field report, interpretation | Comments are closed

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 […] […]

July 15th, 2011 | Category: #CVFS, beijing, chinavine.org, collaboration, Communism, coursework, Culture, education, field report, Food, interpretation, learning centers, representation, tradition | Comments are closed