I am a teacher at Guizhou Normal. We are right in the middle of Guiyang and have campuses in two other locations. Foreign students of Chinese are welcome. The program I am involved in allows local Chinese students to go overseas for their last year of university training.
See: http://www.csc.edu.cn/laihua/universitydetailen.aspx?collegeId=250
Tongren,Guizhou missionary history 贵州铜仁传教士历史: Local Girl Braves Danger of Bandits and Jap Attack- Life of Missionary in China Is Far From Being Dull- Local Girl in China -Zimmer Dec 5 1939 article, , see larger image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9638579787/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Photo caption: Six weeks away by mail, when it gets through, Mrs. Silvia Zimmer will be spending here Christmas in Tungjen with her husband, Gerald, and their 18-month-old baby Sherwood
[copy of the original newspaper article supplied by Zimmer Foundation, www.zimmerfoundation.org , via former English teacher in Tongren, Guizhou and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Sky Lantz-Warner (now at the University of Dayton, in Ohio), slantzwagner1@udayton.edu ]
The Morgantown Post, Morgantown, W. Va., Tuesday, December 5, 1939
text of news article:
“When a plane flies over Morgantown, one rarely notices it.
When an airplane buzzes over the horizon toward Tungjen [Tongren铜仁], China, a former Morgantown girl picks up her baby boy and runs for the hills.
Now that the Japanese have pointed the nose of their war machine into Southern China to rivet shut the backdoor through which supplies have been coming to the Chinese, the war is closer to Mrs. Gerald Zimmer, the former Sylvia Zinn.
Her mother, Mrs. Josephine Zinn of 160 Fayette street, pointed out Tungjen on a detailed map of China. It is located in Kweichow [Guizhou贵州] Province.
Located in Interior
This former University co-ed lives six weeks away by mail in the hinterlands of China, 1,400 miles west of Shanghai. Starting at Peking, she and her husband, Gerald Zimmer, kept one jump ahead of Jap bombers in their move in the interior.
“Tunjen is thirty miles from the nearest road,” Mrs. Zinn explained. Everything must be shipped in by boat to this city of 24,000 persons located in a region of mountains.
Raiding the river boats is a lucrative source of income to the bandits. The Zimmers just missed having their belongings fall into bandit hands. [missing text] … enough to meet their I.O.U.’s by the first of the year.
Bandits Beheaded
Telling of measures taken against the bandits, Mrs. Zimmer wrote in her last letter:
“Bandits aren’t bothering us now, Thank goodness! They (the soldiers) have been tracking them down and killing them. Friday four of them were beheaeded outside the North Gate. We had to come past there and there were two bodies and four heads still there…an awful sight.”
High walls completely surround the city and the residences of the missionaries are walled in also. Yet despite this, the bandits make raids on the city.
A raid on the North Gate near where the Zimmers live caused a bit of an uproar what with bullets zipping close to the house. The noise wakened the Zimmer’s baby boy before he could be taken to a safe place on the first floor.
Help One Another
The bandits made off with some loot and a couple Chinese women after killing several of the city’s residents.
Missionaries stick together in China, regardless of denomination or creed. If some difficulty arises, word of it travels fast and far.
The supply of powdered milk for the Zimmer child was low and prospects of replenishing the necessity have been bad at times.
“They were down to the last spoonful one time,” Mrs. Zinn said, “when a bundle arrived from a distant missionary’s wife. It contained a supply of the needed food. Another time, a missionary coming in from the ‘outside’ stopped and left a supply.”
Things Happen
Teaching and taking care of a house are but part of the day’s work for Mrs. Zimmer. The most [unclear text]… things pop up for her [missing text]… saying a woman nearby had taken poison,” Mrs. Zinn related. “Sylvia hurried after the girl, trying to think of the remedies she had heard of for poisoning.”
Arriving in the room with the stricken woman, she set to work and applied two of the remedies she remembered. They saved the woman’s life, the Chinese doctor told her later.
The Chinese have a simple faith in the ability of the missionaries to cure their ills. Mr. Zimmer treated as many as a thousand persons at one time for minor ills while on one of his trips in the surrounding rural region.
Going to Stay
The Zimmers carry their share of the burden of the missionary work for the region. Mr. Zimmer is the only white man for miles around. An American nurse and the widow of a missionary are the only other white persons in Tungjen.
Does the increasing difficulties have them stumped?
No sir!
“They are determined to stay until 1942 when their first six years are up,” Mrs. Zinn stated. Meanwhile, the former Marion, Ohio, youth and the West Virginia University co-ed are having the time of their lives doing the work they thoroughly enjoy in the midst of one of the most exciting chapters in the world’s history.’
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Rev. & Mrs. Gerald R. Zimmer were Educators who, in the middle 1930s decided they wanted to be missionaries and went to China to preach and teach. They went to a very remote area in the interior, to a small town of Tongren. There they lived with the people, learned their language and customs and worked to improve their situation.
The Zimmer Foundation initiated a scholarship program in 2004 that supports the major cost of education for students annually for the second, third and final years at Tongren University. Now, over twenty students have been provided scholarships. It was our vision that at least two students will be added each year over a ten year program. Many donors have allowed us to exceed our visions of the scholarship program. The selection of the students is based upon their academic achievements and financial needs. The student’s family is identified with an income at or less than the poverty level established by the Tongren prefecture officials.
In villages of rural China, many students are the first of their family to complete college. Zimmer Foundation has arranged to financially support specific students with financial needs. The eligibility for receipt of such scholarships is first year college students with academic excellence who come from very poor families. Often these are children of farmers whose annual income is less than $264 USD. The families earn below the declared poverty level defined by each county.
The Zimmer Foundation for China was established to implement holistic programs to improve the economic and spiritual conditions in rural Guizhou. The Zimmer Foundation is a US 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization established in memory of Rev. & Mrs. Gerald R. Zimmer who served in China 1936-1948.
The Zimmer Foundation for China
7702 Lake Vista Ct. Suite 202, Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202, USA
Phone 941-306-5022, E-Mail : info@zimmerfoundation.org , stanzimmer@charter.net (from www.zimmerfoundation.org/about/index.php )
see also:
Tongren University: Love Has No Boundaries (about Zimmerman Foundation, for Tongren, Guizhou) , & interview with Sky Lantz-Wagner, Peace Corps teacher, 2012, www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9509507136/
Zimmer Foundation for China, www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9509318418/
Tongren University 铜仁学院, Guizhou prov.,http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9509392752/in/photostream/
Oakland University (Michigan) – Guizhou exchange , from http://www2.oakland.edu/sehs/ou_china/overview.htm, posted at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9635577189/
The partnership between Guizhou Education Bureau, Guizhou, China and Oakland University, Michigan, U.S.A., was established in 1986 by the first OU delegation to China. Over the past 20 years, this unique partnership has been successfully and productively developed and expanded, beneficial to students, teachers, administrators, and many other participants from both sides. The partnership consists of five major components: the Summer English Language Institute, the MAT Joint-Masters Program, the Oakland-China Educational Consortium for School Districts, the Leadership Training Project, and the Visitors Exchange Programs.
Program Coordinator:Dr. Ledong Li, Oakland University, Pawley Hall 450 D, 2200 North Squirrel Road, Rochester, Michigan 48307, USA , Email: l1li@oakland.edu , Phone within United States: 1-248-370-4373 Fax: 1-248-370-4367, Phone from China: 001-248-370-4373 Fax: 001-248-370-4367; sehs@oakland.edu
English corners in Guiyang 贵阳的英语角: Mondays 7:30-10:00 pm
Mondays 7:30-10:00 pm at NEW LOCATION (as of Jan 2014): Black Rock 黑石, Caijiajie, near Xiaoshizi 蔡家街商住楼二单元二号（建行背后）
coffee shop tel: 136 1851 1183 [former location:Coffee Time 素年咖啡 , (across from Jiaxiu Pavilion, behind Victoria维多利亚) ]
Thursdays 7:30-9:30 pm at Guizhou Normal University at the Mao statue 贵州师范大学,毛主席雕像
There is also an English corner on Saturdays at 2:30-5:00 pm at the Guizhou Provincial Library 贵州省图书馆 (Beijing Road 北京路), on the 4th floor in the foreign language book collection section.
The Protestant church on Qianlingxi Road 黔灵西路 occasionally also has an English corner on Tuesday nights.
And there is an English corner in a Korean restaurant in a shopping center in Jinyang.
American education delegation visit to Guiyang, 2007 — Mao-Mart: Always Low Prices!
larger image at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9612469434/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Mao-Mart: Always Low Prices!
17 July,2007By: David Besozzi
This morning we visited a middle school affiliated with Guizhou Normal University.
We were met at the gate by the school’s principal. The school actually placed a banner in English and Chinese at the gate welcoming us, as well as in the reception room.
The principal mentioned that today was an auspicious day – 17th day, 7th month, of the 7th year – all those sevens, very lucky indeed! The school has a total of 3,000 students and 200 faculty and staff.
At this point, the principals ‘speech was typical of these sort of government sponsored events (very Party like) – he emphasized the similarities and differences between the American and Chinese systems of education – like yin and yang, he said. China emphasizes the group, while America focuses on individual. The principal went onto say that both countries have the opportunity to learn from the strengths of each other. Interestingly, in the middle of his introduction speech, the principal’s cell phone rang and he took the call (a common occurrence at these events). He never lost his place and continued with his speech after finishing the call. He then concluded by stating that the school builds on traditional approaches but also looks forward to the opportunity to meet and learn from educators from abroad. Afterward, we broke out into happy applause (although I was wondering if we would be given any information of substance – it wasnt ‘looking too good).
We then got another welcome from the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Office in Guizhou, Miss Chin – “welcome on behalf of the Foreign Affairs Office,” she said, and then told us she is very busy getting ready to leave for a trip to the United Kingdom later in the day. With that, she got up and left. These introductions were looking very “official” – meaning useless in terms of learning anything of substance.
We then met with Mr. Zhou, the Director of Education for the province of Guizhou. He proceeded to supply us with a variety of statistics on Guizhou schools: by the end of 2006 they had 470 million students (not sure if that is accurate). They also have 40,00 primary schools, 1,500 middle schools, and 482 senior middle (high) schools (Again, these statistical figures are always suspect).
Mr. Zhou stressed that the goal of education in Guizhou is to meet the needs of all students – fairness is the goal. He also emphasized the need for curriculum reform and quality education. Al right, at this point, I am beginning to think that we are being given a very typical Party speech – although not presenting us with all “sunshine and roses,” the speech was less informative than the education related presentations we have heard elsewhere. It isn’t enough to keep repeating the “equality and fairness” phrase over and over. Given what we have learned about migrant families and the plight of “left behind children,” the rhetoric we received today seems a waste of time. I think the old fashioned approach to meeting with foreign educators still practiced in Guizhou reflects the degree to which the province has not met the sophistication level we experienced elsewhere, especially Beijing. They still need to break from the routine of the past and the practice of presenting the rhetorical Party line (Beijing presentations also promoted party policy, but did it in a way that was not always obviously Party rhetoric).
Well, I’m not so sure how useful this meeting was. Nevertheless, they had great snacks! I also had a chance to meet with and talk with a high school student, a miss Xue Shuyu. She had lived in America for a year in Pennsylvania where she went to school and took here classes in English. I was astounded at her level of intelligence and her commitment to her studies.
All of the students that were present seemed to be of a similar character. It made me think that in the United States we are not doing enough – our students will find it difficult to compete with these young people in a global market place. If we don’t reform our education goals, it is potentially possible that we will fall behind. However, Miss. Xue also admitted that the one problem faced by students in China is the overwhelming amount of study and preparation they are required to do for school. She would have preferred some sort of balance between study time and free time. She particularly liked how in America she had some choices and freedom to study topics of her choosing. This is not always an option for students in China. perhaps Miss Xue, and others like her, may build a bridge between our two systems, making it possible for Chinese students to experience the best of both systems (now I’m sounding rhetorically Party like).
Following lunch, we headed towards a section of Guiyang where Professor Belsky had noticed a giant Mao statue. These were common during the Cultural Revolution, but most had been taken down in the years following that controversial period of Chinese history. So, off we went in the bus to check it out. Upon arriving, it was apparent that the statue was very large — it was the largest I have even seen. Interestingly, it now sat in front of a new skyscraper/office building.
Both the building and the Mao statue faced in the direction of the main park located in Guiyang along the water front area of the Nanming River. However, on closer inspection, the park was more than a park. At both ends the park there was a triangular structure composed of glass emerging from the grassy area of the park – they looked very much like the I.M. Pei designed entrance way to the Louvre in Paris, France. However, these two pyramid structures were not entry ways into a museum. No, in fact, they were the entry ways into one of the world’s largest Wal-Mart Supercenters!
If you look closely, at the back left of the glass pyramid, you can see Mao in the background:
The entire structure was underground, essentially the full length of the park itself, the green lawn being located on the roof of the structure.
It was massive and inside one could buy all things one expects to find at a Wal-Mart and more. Chinese tastes for food are different than in the United States. As a result, different varieties of food are available.
However, the Chinese do not differ in the desire to purchase items at an affordable price. Hence the smiley-faced Wal-Mart discount signs everywhere.
The irony of this discovery wasn’t so much that Wal-Mart was taking over China just like it is America, but that the location of the structure is opposite a giant Mao statue. The man must be spinning in his grave – all that revolution and Mao has to stand for eternity staring at a Wal-Mart Supercenter (makes one consider the hypocrisy of kicking Starbucks out of the Forbidden City – no one seems to care about the sanctity of Mao, especially if it means cutting off access to “Always Low Prices!”).
Following our adventure at “Mao-Mart,” We were taken to visit a local industry – a drug manufacturing factory. The name of the company was Li Shuan Gyao Ye and they manufactured a drug that basically acts like a sore throat remedy.
According to the director, the drug is completely made of natural herbs, as opposed to Western medicine, which often uses chemicals (I am not sue that his statement is 100% true, but it reflects the Chinese perception of Western medicine). They even gave us a free sample box to keep.
We were then taken on a tour of the plant, but we had to wear protective clothing on our heads, body and feet. So, we dressed in the appropriate clothing provided and took a tour of the plant,
Sorry, no photo were allowed so I cant show the plant. It was remarkably clean, especially since the part of the city where this factory was located was not. After our tour, we headed back to our bus, but not before passing a company bus with the image of a famous spokesperson (a comedian).
We then took our obligatory group photo.
Some of us jokingly wondered what the chances might be that we would see our picture or a group photo on a bus in Shanghai the following week expressing our love of the product. I imagined it might look like the following:
After the company visit, it was time to head back to the hotel for some well needed rest.
(from http://admin.bhbl.neric.org/~dbesozzi/FOV2-001011C0/FOV2-001011C2/S00DE53FE-0193EC1B?Plugin=Blog )
Hall of Confucius Studies, Guiyang 贵阳孔学堂, in Huaxi district
see larger image at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9617680700/sizes/l/in/photostream/
more photos of the Hall of Confucius Studies in Guiyang at: www.gywb.cn/topic/view/id/78.htm
reference photo: students in Guiyang, late Qing era, photo from http://img1.soufun.com/bbs/2011_12/06/18/guiyang/1323166809645_000.jpg
Coming of age ceremony
大成殿内孔子及先贤圣像
贵阳市道德讲堂总堂在孔学堂开讲
孔学堂鸟瞰效果图
在孔学堂举办的成人礼上，正宾为参礼者加冠。
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孔学堂大成殿效果图。
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The Workshop of the Council of the Confucius Institute Headquarters Convened in Guiyang
from Hanban, 2013-08-01
Guiyang, July 28th, 2013 – The workshop of the Council of the Confucius Institute Headquarters was convened in Guiyang. Mr. Li Jun, Vice Secretary of the Guizhou CPC Provincial Committee; Mr. Zhao Qizheng, dean of the School of Journalism and Communication at Renmin University of China, the former chief of the State Council Information Office; Madam Xu Lin, Chief Executive of Confucius Institute Headquarters, Director-General of Hanban; Mr. Li Zaiyong, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Guiyang Municipal Committee and Mayor of Guiyang City attended the workshop and delivered speeches.
In his speech, Mr. Li Jun thanked Confucius Institute Headquarters for organizing the workshop in Guiyang. He said that an important reason for holding the workshop in Guiyang was that Guiyang has got the Hall of Confucius Study. The Study is more a school than a “temple”, which mainly serves as a venue for lectures, research, and training. And the purpose of the Hall of Confucius Study is not to restore the ancient ways but to revive and pass on the elements of the outstanding traditional Chinese culture under new historical circumstances, and to help realize the “China Dream”. He hopes friends from various countries often come to Guizhou, offering their care and help to the Hall of Confucius Study in Guiyang, which makes greater contribution in promoting traditional Chinese culture.
Madam Xu Lin pointed out that Confucius Institutes are flourishing and warmly welcomed in various countries, and have been in a new phase of development. Improving the quality of management, upgrading training for local Chinese language teachers, and implementing the Confucius China Study Plan are the basis for the sustainable development of Confucius Institutes, which enables the pursuit of development on a higher level, helps to integrate into foreign universities and local communities, and better serves the demands of the world in learning Chinese language and culture.
During the opening ceremony, Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban) and the Guiyang municipal government jointly signed a framework agreement for strategic cooperation.
During the conference, Mr. Zhao Qizheng gave a lecture about the differences and similarities of Chinese and foreign cultures, and the Chinese and foreign discourse systems. Representatives from countries including the U.S., the UK, Germany, Spain, Australia, Kenya, Brazil, and Chile made discussions and exchanged views about how the Confucius Institute can better integrate into foreign universities, better serve the public of various countries, increase its influence, and they offered advice on how the Confucius Institute could maintain a sustainable development as well.
(from english.hanban.org/article/2013-08/01/content_507342.htm )
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University leaders at the Confucius Institute
Overseas university heads tour Guiyang Confucius Institute
By Li Yang and Zeng Jun ( chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2013-08-06
The public lecture provides a platform for communication between scholars and the public. Also, it is part of the cultural development plan of Guiyang,” said Zhao Qizheng, the president of the School of Journalism, Renmin University of China.
University representatives from the US, Great Britain and South Korea watched the Chinese traditional coming-of-age ceremony at the Guiyang Confucius Institute on July 30.
The ceremony has three sections: a capping ceremony, a hair-pinning ceremony and a shooting event. A total of 50 boys and girls dressed in Han costumes participated in the ceremony.
Isaac Mbeche，vice-president of the University of Nairobi, Kenya, said at the event: “The Confucius institute was established in 2005 in Kenya, providing undergraduate and postgraduate education. Students there cannot only learn Chinese but also Confucian culture.”
“The Guiyang Confucius Institute’s architecture is amazing,” said Fred Hillmer, the president of the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Hillmer said: “Learning Chinese has become a fashionable thing in Sydney. There are more than 500 people learning Chinese in our university.”
Seven years ago, the University of Edinburgh established a Confucius Institute. Now, it has more than 2,000 students,said Timothy O’Shea, the president of the University of Edinburgh.
photos:
Overseas university heads tour Guiyang Confucius Institute
University leaders at the Confucius Institute
Overseas university heads tour Guiyang Confucius Institute
Coming of age ceremony
(from www.chinadaily.com.cn/m/guizhou/guiyang/2013-08/06/conten… )
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贵阳孔学堂落成
2012年10月31日
贵阳孔学堂落成
——弘扬传统文化 构筑精神高地
弘扬中华民族优秀传统文化，构筑促进地方经济社会发展的“精神高地”。9月28日，贵阳孔学堂落成暨孔子行教雕塑揭幕仪式在大将山麓、花溪河畔隆重举 行。国务院参事室主任陈进玉讲话并宣布落成，省委常委、市委书记李军为孔学堂管理处授牌并致辞。
中央文史馆副馆长、中国文联副主席冯远，国务院参事、国家汉办主任、孔子学院总部总干事许琳，国务院参事车书剑，省人大常委会副主任顾久，人民出版社 编辑部主任方国根，南京大学中国文化书院常务副院长李承贵，联合国教科文组织文化遗产专员、中国文物技术学会副秘书长杜晓帆，世界遗产基金会中国区经 理李光涵等出席。
市委常委、市委宣传部部长兰义彤主持仪式。省委宣传部、省文明办、省发改委、省旅游局、省教育厅、省文史馆、省建筑设计研究院等省直部门和单位负责人 ，市领导李忠、陈石、王保建、马长青、刘文新、张平、刘俊、朱元俊、帅文、庞鸿、李作勋，以及市人大常委会、市政府、市政协其他领导出席。
孔学堂地处花溪十里河滩国家城市湿地公园中段，背倚大将山，俯瞰花溪河。占地130亩，建筑面积2万多平方米，因袭宏伟、大气的汉唐风格，并融入贵州 地域建筑元素。主要建筑包括大成殿、杏坛、讲堂群、六艺学宫、乡贤祠、阳明祠、奎文阁等，主要功能是讲学、研究、修习，兼具祭祀、礼典、典藏等功能。
在落成暨揭幕仪式上，陈进玉代表国务院参事室、中央文史馆、国家汉办和孔子学院总部，对贵阳孔学堂的落成表示祝贺。他说，贵阳建设孔学堂，是贯彻落实 党的十七届六中全会精神的重要举措，是实现贵州省委、省政府“构筑精神高地，冲出经济洼地”要求的重要助推力，将为全市、全省乃至全国的青少年加强思 想道德教育提供重要基地，为提高本地党政干部的文化素养和“官德”境界提供重要平台。从孔学堂的建设，我们看到了“贵阳速度”，感受到了贵州、贵阳在 西部大开发中正在迅速崛起。
陈进玉表示，国务院参事室及有关机构将在国学进校园、进机关、进企业等方面加大对贵阳市的支持力度，推动世界各地的孔子学院与贵阳孔学堂加强交流。希 望贵阳孔学堂越办越红火，贵州、贵阳经济社会发展更好更快。（讲话全文另发）
李军代表市四大班子向孔学堂的落成表示祝贺。他说，文化是民族的血脉。一个民族要真正强大，必须使本民族的优秀文化延绵不绝、繁荣发展。当前，我们自 身发展状况和面临的外部环境都发生了很大变化，迫切需要建立与市场经济相适应的、根源于本民族传统文化的社会主义精神文明体系。孔子创立的儒家学说是 中华民族传统文化的主脉。贵阳与儒学文化有着很深的渊源，贵阳加快发展既需要高楼大厦，也需要精神文化殿堂。在此时、在此地建设孔学堂，就是贯彻中央 的要求，坚持古为今用，实现弘扬中华民族优秀传统文化与彰显社会主义文明新风的有机结合，构筑“精神高地”，为冲出“经济洼地”提供强大精神力量。
李军强调，孔学堂必须立足贵阳、面向全国、放眼世界，真正成为一个开放的平台。要通过开设国学讲坛，举办学术交流会、研讨会等载体，吸引海内外儒学名 家前来讲学、研究，促进儒学文化的传播与发展，培育广大市民对优秀传统文化的认知与认同，增强民族文化自觉自信。通过坚持不懈的努力，使贵阳孔学堂成 为一个硕儒、名流汇集的地方，成为一个弘扬、研究儒学文化的重要场所。
李军说，在孔学堂建设过程中，得到了各级领导和有关各方的热情关怀和积极帮助。设计单位精心构思，工程建设者高质量、高效率完成建设任务，相关单位全 力配合，民营企业慷慨解囊，广大市民和专家学者踊跃建言。李军代表市四大班子向参与、关心和支持孔学堂建设的各级各方表示衷心感谢。
中国孔子基金会等省内外136家相关机构和组织发来贺信，认为贵阳孔学堂的落成对弘扬中华传统文化、构建社会主义和谐社会、建设中华民族共有精神家园 具有重大意义，必将推动当地经济社会文化全面健康发展。
仪式上，李军向孔学堂管委会主任蒋星恒和孔学堂管理处负责人授牌。出席仪式的领导和嘉宾为高达9.28米的巨型孔子行教雕塑揭幕。仪式前，领导和嘉宾 们兴致勃勃地参观了孔学堂。
各区（市、县）、市直各部门，捐建单位负责人，贵阳市儒学研究会成员参加仪式。
(from www.gysdj.gov.cn/dwgk/ShowNews.aspx?NewsID=13332 )
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全球12国大学校长参观贵阳孔学堂
发布时间：2013-07-31 09:41:03 来源：贵阳晚报 作者：周然 庞博
导读：7月30日，孔子学院总部理事及全球12个国家的大学校长来到贵阳孔学堂参观。来自美、英、韩等12个国家的大学校长，在孔学堂观看了中国的成 人礼仪式：50名身穿汉服的少男少女，在广场上…
全球12国大学校长参观贵阳孔学堂
7月30日，孔子学院总部理事及全球12个国家的大学校长来到贵阳孔学堂参观。
中国人民大学新闻学院院长、前国务院新闻办公室主任赵启正参观之后表示，虽然他是第一次来到孔学堂，但这里与他想象中孔子当年的学习环境很吻合。 “举办的公益讲座，既有利于贵阳的文化发展，也给学者提供了一个服务群众的机会。”
来自美、英、韩等12个国家的大学校长，在孔学堂观看了中国的成人礼仪式：50名身穿汉服的少男少女，在广场上按照传统礼仪，进行拜孔圣、三谢礼 等活动。
据多国的大学校长介绍，他们各自的学校都已设立孔子学院，希望能通过此行，增进与中国的文化交流。
全球12国大学校长参观贵阳孔学堂
全球12国大学校长参观贵阳孔学堂
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肯尼亚内罗毕大学副校长姆贝奇：
肯尼亚在2005年就建立了孔子学院，并建立了完善的课程体系，按照本科生、硕士生、博士生分级，学生不但要学习中文，还要学习儒家文化。但比较 起来，贵阳孔学堂更新、更宏大，这里举行的成人礼等活动也十分吸引人。
澳大利亚新南威尔士大学校长弗里德里克·休默：
这可能是我看过的、有史以来最好的孔学建筑，与我所在大学里的孔子学院相比，这里的建筑更恢弘。在悉尼，学中文已成了一件很时尚的事，仅在我的学 校里，就有500多人学习中文。
英国爱丁堡大学校长提摩斯·奥谢：
7年前，爱丁堡大学有了孔子学院，现在已经有超过2000位学生在这里学习中文。早在1852年，英国爱丁堡大学便接收了第一位中国留学生，叫做 王宽（音），希望今后爱丁堡大学孔子学院有机会与贵阳孔学堂开展交流、合作。
巴西圣保罗州立大学孔子学院院长路易斯·安东尼奥·保利诺：
贵阳孔学堂非常漂亮、壮观，没想到在山水之间还隐藏了这样一片古色古香的建筑群。古代的孔子一定是在这样的环境下给学生上课的，希望下回还能来贵 阳做客。（周然 庞博）
(from dygz.yxgz.cn/guizhoulvyouzixun/2013/0731/153513.html )
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[poor machine translation:]
Completion of Guiyang first Confucius Classroom Confucius birthday
September 28,2012
WASHINGTON, Guiyang, 28 September (Reporter Wang Chao Anna)
28 September is the 2563-year old Confucius birthday, the first Confucius Classroom in Guiyang Huaxi Wetland Park was completed, the school set ritual, ceremony, classical education, Guoxue Tourism Forum, cultural industries and functions as a ‘public Guiyang friends about literature, reading classic study of Chinese culture, learning, I can appreciate the unique beauty of Huaxi Wetland Park.
The Guiyang Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, Deputy Minister, the Confucius Classroom Management Director Hou Nan told reporters Kong Xuetang functional orientation: ‘heritage and carry forward the Confucian Temple, enlightenment and open a new wind-base’ ritual, collection, research, enlightenment , six arts five basic functions, as far as possible, to the civil and moral education, ideological and moral education of minors and the public a wide range of spiritual and cultural needs. Xuetang Kong, to build a platform of Confucian Studies in Guiyang to meet, play features a respected Confucianism to promote the transfer of Chinese cultural exchange the results of the study of Confucianism, the Confucian heritage and dissemination. Worship, rituals, songs, recreation, tourism, culture, economy, and other functions as one of the community projects.
The school building complex covers an area of 130 hectares, with a total construction area of nearly 20,000 square meters. Architectural design for the architectural features of the Han and Tang style. Taken the traditional interpretation of the type system was a vertical and two horizontal triaxial networking ‘trend. vertical axis is the ‘ceremony axis’, a symbol of the core ideas of Confucius’ Rites’ and’ benevolence ‘lattice Stargate, Dacheng Hall, Xingtan building two horizontal axis wind axis row axis’,’ wind axis’ a symbol of enlightenment thought of Confucius , lecture group who teach college Khe Sanh, Six Arts Xue Gong, wave ‘a symbol of wisdom and practice of Confucius, Xiangxian for discussion during the conference and scientists to give lectures and learning base. Temple, Yangming Temple, Cravens Court building for worship Guizhou, the ancient sages and celebrities collections Confucian culture classic.
Today can be the influence of Confucianism worldwide transmission of Chinese and Western cultures, so China. Been a mainstay traditional world Heiner, a respected nation Long to spread Rise of Confucianism traditional Chinese culture, deputy director of the Guizhou Provincial People’s Congress Gu have a positive view of the role of the great powers. (End)
(Original title: Guiyang first Confucius Classroom Confucius birthday completed
(from www.cool-news.us/news-1718211-Completion-of-Guiyang-first… )
在孔学堂举办的成人礼上，正宾为参礼者加冠。
Peace Corps teachers in Guizhou at play
uploaded at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9608582824/sizes/l/in/photostream/
images from
from skylantzwagner.blog.com, www.sasha-digiulian.com/blog/page/6
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Peace Corps China
My Life as a Complex Adaptive System
Guiyang get-together
2010 September 20, Posted by sky
Last weekend my site mate, Kate, and I went to Guizhou’s capital, Guiyang, for a new volunteer welcome party. I had to work until 4:30 on Friday and we caught the 6:00 bus out of Tongren. The ride took about 5 1/2 hours, but really wasn’t too bad. We got in around 11:30 and caught a cab to where some of our cohort was hanging out. We had a few drinks and then I headed over to my friend’s apartment to catch up on things and crash.
The next day was non-stop action. We got up, had some breakfast, and went back to the bus station to get return tickets. From there we went out of the city to a Peace Corps site to play hoops. We had about 18 guys, which was perfect. We had 3 teams of 6, and each game was only 5 points. This gave our out-of-shape bodies time to rest before getting back out for another round. Two hours on the court flew by, but by the end we were all pretty exhausted and went back to our respective apartments to shower and rest.
The evening was as eventful as the afternoon. We all met downtown at which point we divided into different groups for dinner. Some of us went for pizza, others for Muslim food, and still others, including me, went to bean hot pot. Bean hot pot is much different from the fire-like hot pot from Chengdu. It is much more mellow and, as the name suggests, they put pinto beans (or something like them) in the broth. The general idea is the same: you cook raw ingredients in the soup, transfer them to your bowl to cool, and then eat them. At the end, however, you have the beans at the bottom, that when you put over a bowl of rice, is nothing short of manna from the gods. Wow, is that stuff good! I think it is my favorite food in China, so far.
After dinner we all met at a bar that the China 15s rented for the evening. The bar had a dance floor inside and a balcony with a beautiful view outside. We chatted and danced and had an overall great time. We left by 1 and I came back to David’s place to watch the Bulldogs lose again. Sigh. It was 3:00 by the time I went to be and I am still a little tired from all the excitement. The good news is that we have Wednesday through Friday off and I am looking forward to the rest.
(from skylantzwagner.blog.com/2010/09/20/guiyang-get-together/ )
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Petzl RocTrip 2011: Getu Valley, China
Monday, 7 November, 2011
I just returned from the Getu Valley in China, where I was staying for 2 weeks for the Petzl RocTrip. This trip was one of the most unique journeys I’ve ever experienced. I had never traveled to Asia before, and therefore that element alone was new and exciting. China is different from the US in so many ways, from most significantly the language, to the food, to the overall way of life. On October 22 I flew from Denver to Guiyang with Emily Harrington, Joe Kinder, Collette McInnery, Dave Graham, Andrew Bisharat and Lynne Hill. We arrived in Guiyang October 24 (I stepped on the plane 18, and stepped off the plane having turned 19 .. 🙂 )
The trip was long but actually really fun because we were all super psyched to arrive to this unknown, unfamiliar place. Once in Guiyang we met up with a bunch of other Petzl travelers from different parts of the world and we all boarded a bus which shuttled us 4 hours outside of the already rural city of Guiyang to the real out-country of China: Getu Valley!
Huge limestone arches and rolling rice-paddy mountains surrounded our base in Getu Valley. Petzl rented out a hotel for the athletes to stay at and eat at during the trip and the rooms were more luxurious than we anticipated. Emily and I shared a room that was basic but nice. The hotel lacked comforts like hot water though, so we had to get used to cold showers, but we adjusted to this! We also just got pretty dirty and stopped caring about frivolous luxuries like hot showers and clean clothes… Though now that I just took a nice hot shower here in Colorado, I realize how much I missed it!
Climbing in the Getu Valley was very different as well. The rock was limestone and the main place that we climbed at was called the “Great Arch.” To approach this sector we first took a boat across a river, then we had to hike up 1,400 steps which was probably the coolest approach I’ve ever encountered on a climbing trip. From the Great Arch we could look out over the valley and see the surrounding mountains and stupendous cliffs rising from the river below.
During the RocTrip it was really inspiring to climb with so many motivated, well-established climbers from all over; China, USA, France, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Turkey, and more. There were also many spectators, organizers, photographers, and videographers.
Flickr “GoGuiyang,” photostream at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/ , and its organized photo sets at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/sets/ .Tour Guizhou (started by current Guizhou Normal U. teacher Jack Porter), http://www.tourguizhou.net/ .Weebly “GoGuiyang” (put together by former Peace Corps teacher Erik Myxter): http://goguiyang.weebly.com/Weebly “GooGuizhou” (spelled “goo…”): http://googuizhou.weebly.com/
Mr. Zhong & Sahand
Kosher Chinese – Living Teaching and Eating with China’s Other Billion, by Michael Levy — former Guizhou University Teacher, see enlarged image at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9605434330/sizes/l/in/photostream/
As a Peace Corps volunteer, I was stationed in Guiyang, the capital city of China’s poorest province. Before leaving, I spoke not a word of Chinese, but after two years and lots of help from the amazing Peace Corps teachers, I was close to fluent. I taught ESL and American Literature at Guizhou University, and helped organize a learning center for children in a nearby village. I also ended up on the university basketball team and—at six feet tall and 165 pounds—earned the campus-wide nickname “Shaq.” Since returning home, I’ve been teaching a bit of Chinese, and I’ve led tours for American high school students interested in traveling around China. I’m sure this is but the beginning of a life-long connection to China in general, and Guiyang in particular. I have a memoir about the experience, Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion (Henry Holt 2011).
(from peacecorps.cornell.edu/exp.cfm?id=8 )
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Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion
by Michael Levy
An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional society in flux
In September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English in the heart of China’s heartland. His hosts in the city of Guiyang found additional uses for him: resident expert on Judaism, romantic adviser, and provincial basketball star, to name a few. His account of overcoming vast cultural differences to befriend his students and fellow teachers is by turns poignant and laugh-out-loud funny.
While reveling in the peculiarities of life in China’s interior, the author also discovered that the “other billion” (people living far from the coastal cities covered by the American media) have a complex relationship with both their own traditions and the rapid changes of modernization. Lagging behind in China’s economic boom, they experience the darker side of “capitalism with Chinese characteristics,” daily facing the schizophrenia of conflicting ideologies.
Kosher Chinese is an illuminating account of the lives of the residents of Guiyang, particularly the young people who will soon control the fate of the world.
Paperback, 256 pages
Published July 5th 2011 by Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 0805091963 (ISBN13: 9780805091960)
(from www.goodreads.com/book/show/10283324-kosher-chinese )
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Central China is a strange place. Unlike the globalized, westernized cities on the coast, the land-locked, impoverished provinces of the interior rarely get foreign visitors. These provinces are home to the laobaixing, or “old hundred names,” a euphemism for the billion-or-so Zhou Six Packs I got to know while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer.
(from www.alljewishlinks.com/just-like-comrade-karl-marx/ )
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The Quest For Kosher Among China’s Other Billion
by NPR STAFF
July 27, 2011 3:16 PM
The nation will soon observe the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, events that prompted many Americans to explore faith or military service. Educator Michael Levy felt a call to serve in a different way — through the Peace Corps. In 2005, he was sent to Guiyang, a remote village in central China.
He chronicles that journey in his new memoir Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching and Eating with China’s Other Billion.
In an interview with Tell Me More host Michel Martin, Levy says he was initially surprised that China — a country regarded as a rising global superpower — even accepted Peace Corps volunteers. “One of the things that makes the Peace Corp unique is that it only goes where it’s invited,” says Levy. “When China offered the invitation, I think Washington, D.C., was excited to build a bond any way possible.”
Beyond China’s booming cities lives a massive impoverished community. “There are a billion people in China’s interior who are still living on a few dollars a day. That’s Guizhou province, the poorest province in China,” he says.
Levy reveals that the average income in the community where he volunteered was 100 U.S. dollars per month. That’s the stipend he lived off of as well. Most of Levy’s Guizhou University students were first-generation college students from farming families who had dreams of leaving the province for the economically booming coast. But he explains that the dream is tough to turn into reality, “Shanghai, Beijing — it’s out of reach for the average person in China.”
Keeping Kosher?
For Levy, the main challenge was negotiating when to yield to local customs and become a truly immersed community member … and when to assert his American ideals.
He says it’s the same dilemma many people experience when they’re invited to share a meal at someone else’s house.
“Maybe you’re a vegetarian and it’s meat; maybe you’re Muslim and it’s pork; or Hindu and it’s beef. Whatever it is, there’s always a moment in people’s lives when they have to decide, ‘am I going to be the best guest possible and honor this person’s effort and just eat it? Or am I going to bring my identity into this and push the plate away?'” explains Levy.
He says he decided to just accept what people prepared for him gracefully and even enthusiastically. He admits, “I was in a land of pork popsicles. And I gotta tell you this — it was delicious!”
A Spiritual Void
However, many of the Chinese people whom Levy encountered seemed to be left unsatisfied when it comes to spirituality. Levy recounts that in the 1960s, communist leader Chairman Mao did everything he could to tear down the “spiritual nervous system.” Mao had Buddhist monks physically beaten, temples demolished and sutras burned.
Levy says his students had never been encouraged to think about or discuss God, spirituality or religion.
One of his students, Jennifer, even told him, “You are lucky, because as an American Jew, you have something to believe in. But what can Chinese believe in? We do not have the God. We are losing all of our Chinese days, like Mid-Autumn Festival and Grave Sweeping Day.”
Levy says the Chinese government’s big challenge now is to rebuild some sort of spiritual tradition. So far, its chosen method is to construct Confucianism centers nationwide.
Rethinking Politics, Governance And Economics
Levy also came to understand that the Chinese have fervent patriotism despite the lack of democracy. And he says they consider the 1989 massacre of protesters in Tiananmen Square as ancient history.
Now, in his teaching career in the U.S., Levy has unique advice for his American students who want to understand China. “Imagine that there’s a country exactly like the United States. Exactly the same size. It’s got the same cities. It’s got the same number of rich people and poor people. It’s just like us. And now add 1 billion peasants. That’s China,” he says. “If we added a billion peasants to our country, how much would that change our politics? How much would that change our understanding of economics?”
Levy says keeping that perspective helps him understand why the average Chinese person puts such a high value on stability. “They need a government that keeps things under control so they can keep growing … so this billion people can have something to hope for,” he adds. Otherwise, it’s chaos, says Levy.
Learning From One Another
Levy says that after his journey with the Guizhou community, he reads newspapers differently and takes a more global perspective on international issues.
When asked what he hopes he taught the Chinese, Levy responds, “I hope that they learn that Americans are not all fat, not all out to get them, and that there’s a big distinction between what our government does and what an average American wants or believes.”
transcript:
MICHEL MARTIN, host: Of course in this country we’ve had our own experience with terrorism. And, in fact, we will soon be observing the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. And like many people, we plan to reflect on all the ways that 9/11 changed the country and ourselves.
We already know that many people felt a call to faith, others a call to service, perhaps in the military. Our next guest felt that call to service in a different way. He decided to join the Peace Corps. And to his surprise, was sent to a rural village smack in the middle of China, where among his many challenges was trying to figure out how to keep kosher.
Michael Levy writes about this dilemma in his hilarious new memoir “Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion.” It chronicles his experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer starting in 2005. And he’s with us now from our studios in New York. Welcome. Thank you so much for joining us.
MICHAEL LEVY: Thanks, Michel.
MARTIN: So, why did you decide to join the Peace Corps after 9/11?
LEVY: On September 1st, 2001, I moved to the Upper West Side, and I moved from Jerusalem, where I had been studying in a yeshiva. So I moved out of one frying pan and sort of into another frying pan. And like a lot of people in New York at the time, I felt helpless. I was angry and I wanted to do something. And I didn’t know what to do. I wasn’t going to join the Marine Corps. I get woozy if I stub my toe. So I’m not tough enough for that.
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
MARTIN: So it wasn’t a good choice for you.
LEVY: That would not have been a good choice. But I had heard of this thing called the Peace Corps. And the more that I read, the more I felt that it was a way for someone with my temperament and my set of values to do service to my country.
MARTIN: I think it’s a surprise to many people that Peace Corps volunteers are serving in China. I think we’re used to thinking of China now, as kind of a rising economic power, flexing its muscles on the international stage in matters of diplomacy, for example. So I think it is surprising to many people that China accepts Peace Corps volunteers. Was it a surprise to you?
LEVY: It was. And, actually, the word accept is a perfect one to use, Michel. Because one of the things that makes Peace Corps unique is that it only goes where it’s invited. So, when China offered the invitation, I think that Washington, D.C. was excited to build a bond in any way possible. Now, of course, we see in the media that it’s a rising country – that’s a really important story. But there’s a billion people in the interior of China who are still living on a couple of dollars a day.
MARTIN: And that’s where you went.
LEVY: That’s where I went. Yeah. If you dropped your finger right in the middle of a map of China, you’re going to hit Guizhou province.
MARTIN: So tell us about Guizhou province. You said it is the poorest province in China.
LEVY: Yes. It’s the poorest province in China. As per Peace Corps policy, I was given a stipend that put me right at the average level of my community, which was about $100 a month. Most of my students at Guizhou University came from farming families. Just about all of them were first generation college students. And for most of them, the hope – well, it was more of a dream, really, was to leave the province and to get to the coast where this boom is taking place.
But now it’s a few years later, many of them have graduated and it’s out of reach. Shanghai, Beijing – it’s really out of reach for the average person in China.
MARTIN: And what are the immediate challenges for you? You know what? I’m not going to get into too much detail about the immediate challenge for you when you got there because a lot of it has to do with toileting, so I’ll just leave it at that.
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
MARTIN: But food was a challenge because you’d been living in Jerusalem, you had been attending yeshiva, it’s reasonable to assume you kept kosher.
LEVY: Well, ah. Yes. Yes. Here is the central theme. And this is something that you don’t have to go all the way to China to have this problem. If you, Michel, go to dinner, maybe you’re vegetarian and it’s meat. Maybe you are Muslim and it’s pork or Hindu and it’s beef, whatever it is, there’s always a moment in people’s lives when they have to decide, am I going to be the best guest possible and honor this person’s efforts and just eat it or am I going to bring my own identity into this and push the plate away?
As a Peace Corps volunteer, I really, really struggled with this every day. But what I decided to do was be a good guest. And my definition of being a good guest is to accept what is prepared with grace.
MARTIN: Which was immediately tested.
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
LEVY: It was tested every day. I was in a land of, like, pork popsicles. And I got to tell you this – it was delicious.
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
MARTIN: OK. I’m really not – the pork isn’t what was getting me. It was the millipedes.
LEVY: Yeah. The millipedes.
MARTIN: The millipedes.
LEVY: Well, every day I was having a little bit of an identity crisis. But I really did from the very beginning try to make a commitment to not being the ugly American. And to listening and to learning and to trying to become as much a part of the community as possible. And that’s really what Peace Corps asks its volunteers to do. And I don’t know when we’re supposed to impose our own ideas. I mean, politics included, you know, if we’re talking about democracy in China or when I’m just supposed to say thank you, I’ll try this. It’s not usually what I eat, but I’m going to give it a go.
MARTIN: If you’re just joining us, this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News.
I’m speaking with Michael Levy, the author of “Kosher Chinese.” It’s his memoir about being a Peace Corps volunteer in China.
You learned a lot of interesting things about China in a way that when you came back you realized that many people’s perceptions of China as this kind of aggressive, you know, elbows out, my way or the highway is not universal. In fact, that a lot of that is on the edges. In fact, you make this point that one of the officials at the school you were teaching said, if I were to only go to New York and San Francisco, would I really understand the United States?
LEVY: Yeah.
MARTIN: Which is a powerful insight. So tell us a little bit more about what the difference is between the perception many Americans have of China and the other billion, as you put it.
LEVY: Right. So that was the president of Guizhou University who asked me to call him President Bill because Bill Clinton was his hero, which is a little bit bizarre. But his point was if we only read The New York Times, we’re going to understand Shanghai and Beijing. We might understand Tibet and the Dalai Lama. But that leaves out a billion people in the middle and those were the very people that I was getting to know every day.
The other billion are defined by a lot of things. But the part that came up the most for me was a real spiritual emptiness. In the ’60s, Chairman Mao did all he could to sort of tear out the spiritual ecosystem or the nervous system. So Buddhist monks were beaten, temples were torn down, sutras were burned. And my students, they’ve grown up in a China where it’s not that oppressive, but they’ve never been encouraged to think about God or spirituality or religion. They’ve never had the chance to talk about it.
MARTIN: You write about this. You say one of your students, Jennifer, said, you are lucky, because as an American Jew, you have something to believe in. But what can Chinese believe in? We do not have the god. We are losing all of our Chinese days, like Mid-Autumn Festival and Grave Sweeping Day. Do you think that’s a widespread view?
LEVY: I think that it’s very widespread. I think that the big challenge for the Chinese government – and I think that they know this – is actually to rebuild some sort of tradition. And what’s interesting is the Chinese government has been promoting Confucianism as a return to Chinese values. So there’s Confucian centers being built all over the country.
I don’t know what will give Jennifer meaning in her life. But it’s depressing to me to see how many of my friends and students in China are really drifting.
MARTIN: You also, though, came to understand a real patriotism that I think many Americans are puzzled by. For example, I think many Americans have this notion that democracy is so great. You know, our way of life is so great. Why doesn’t everybody want what we have? What you came to understand is there’s a really kind of nuanced view of democracy. It is not what we would think. Could you talk a little bit more about that?
LEVY: When I talk to my students here in the United States and I want them to understand China, I say, imagine that there’s a country exactly like the United States. Exactly the same size. It’s got the same cities. It’s got the same number of rich people and poor people. It’s just like us. And now add one billion peasants. That’s China. If we added a billion peasants to our country, how much would that change our politics? How much would that change our understanding of economics?
I think that thinking of it that way helps me understand why the average Chinese person so values stability and says, what we need is a government that keeps things under control so we can keep growing slowly, maybe even quickly at this point, but so that we can keep growing so that this billion people have something to hope for, because without that hope, chaos is perhaps the result.
MARTIN: So, how does that make you see Tiananmen Square differently?
LEVY: I see it the same way I see the Kent State massacre, which most Americans my age don’t even know about. It’s ancient history to most Chinese. A couple people, you know, got out of control. The government did what it needed to do to keep things stable and now we’ve moved on.
MARTIN: Well, what do you think you learned from your Peace Corps experience? And what do you think your students learned from you?
LEVY: I just have a much more global view of the problems that we get so caught up in in a smaller way, and I think that that’s a mistake.
MARTIN: And what do you think your students learned from you?
LEVY: I hope that they learned that Americans are not all fat. That Americans arenot all out to get them. And that there’s a big distinction between what our government does and what an average American wants or believes.
MARTIN: Michael Levy is the author of the new memoir, “Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion.” He was kind enough to join us from our bureau in New York. Michael Levy, thanks so much for joining us.
LEVY: Thanks, Michel, I’m a big fan.
MARTIN: And what are you having for lunch?
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
LEVY: I’m going to have a bagel.
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