Study Tour to China sponsored by CSI/CUNY. Visited six cities starting with Hong Kong, Shanghai, Suzhou, Nanjing, Beijing, and Xi'an

1. In the Year of the Pig: Postcards from China, 2007 Faculty Study Tour: Part I World on Wednesday Presentation By Participant Prof. Wilma Jones, Chief Librarian February 2008

3. Introducing my fellow travellers on the study tour

4. Ann Helm, Leader, Director of the Center for International Services, greets Fullbright Scholar

5. David Gordon, Prof. of Chinese History, Bronx Community College

6. Tom Lo, Graduate Admissions Officer, Baruch College

7. Cate Marvin, Prof. of English, CSI

8. Michael Daniels, Associate Dean of Student Affairs, CSI

9. Allison Douglas-Chicoye, Director, Transfer Services, LaGuardia Community College

10. Zavi Baynes, Career Advisor, Brooklyn College Rosa Kelley, Foreign Student Advisor, CSI Catherine Lavendar, Prof. of American History, CSI

11. Cuihua Zhang, Prof. of Computer Science, N.E. Lakeview College, TX

12. And… Wilma Jones, Chief Librarian, CSI

13. Our Leaders in CHINA

14. Jun Zhou, Director, Beijing Epoch Training Company

16. In Nanjing: Dr Yang, Prof. of Linguistics

17. Our Bus Driver – In Shanghai, Suzhou, and Nanjing

19. CHINA opened its door to the world in 1978… and its financial industry in 1994

26. Greetings from Hong Kong

27. We flew in on July 8, 2007, at the end of Hong Kong’s week long celebration of the 10 th Anniversary of their integration with China (June 30, 1997)

28. HONG KONG: 2 nd Largest Container Port in the World

30. Hong Kong at Night

33. City University of Hong Kong Students, now studying at CSI

34. To Shanghai Known as the Financial headquarters of China

35. Greetings from Shanghai

36. Shanghai meets New Shanghai (spectacular buildings since 1997) across the Huang Pu River

38. Shanghai’s skyline at night -- spectacular!

39. The familiar…everywhere

44. Learning Commons, SU Library

45. Residential Halls at SU – holds 90% of students

46. VP of Student Affairs, SU 2003 Exchange Scholar to CSI

47. Mike Daniels with Students at Shanghai University

48. Basketball Team at SU (Who said there were no tall people in China?)

49. Dorm room at Shanghai U.

50. By bus we traveled 2hrs to the 3rd city on our schedule, SUZHOU (pronounced “Sue-Joe”)

51. A town of 6 million people, SUZHOU is a city caught between maintaining the traditional while modernization raps on the door incessantly

52. Hence, in SUZHOU, we saw progressive education programs

53. Suzhou Provincial High School

54. School for Children with special needs

55. Ping-Pong Olympic Training Camp

56. Library at Suzhou Industrial Park

57. Also industries everywhere in SUZHOU

58. Silk Worm Factory

59. Silk Embroidery Research Institute

60. Carpet Factory in Suzhou. Exports primarily to Japan and U.S.

61. Pottery Factory

62. Suzhou is also known for its spectacular traditional Chinese gardens Former retreats for the educated and the wealthy

63. The Humble Administrator’s Garden

66. A window into the world outside

67. A picture within a picture

68. Path ways and Hall ways

69. … even the restroom

71. I.M. Pei Museum, Suzhou

72. Agricultural farms surround SUZHOU

73. Zucchini’s hanging from the trestles

74. Female farmers

75. Male farmers

76. Ducks, Pheasants, Peacocks…

77. Lotus, the national plant of China, everywhere…

83. Nanjing University Library, holds 4 million volumes

84. Just around the corner, House of Pearl Buck, Author of The Good Earth .

86. Nanjing Public Library