ABSTRACT

This collection of nine Fulbright educators’ narrative accounts examines how these scholars navigated their teaching responsibilities with students, time with fellow colleagues, and cultural expectations in China, ranging from experience in teaching arts and government to questions of religion, emotional literacy, and urban infrastructure. With these contributions, authors analyze their own expectations against their actual experiences in order to offer insights for scholars and students of study abroad programming. As a roadmap for negotiating China’s higher education network and for taking advantage of any cross-cultural educational environment, this book highlights the type of fruitful educational programming that can come from cultural, historical, economic, and political difference.

chapter 2|12 pages

Lasting Impressions

Memories of a Fulbright Lecturer in China from 1980–1982

chapter 3|11 pages

Transformations in Understanding

Lessons on Self and Culture from Teaching Abroad

chapter 4|12 pages

Teaching Library and Information Science as a Fulbright Scholar

Reflections from a Lecturer’s Notebook

chapter 5|13 pages

This Too Is China

Hui Muslim Culture and the Fulbright Experience at Ningxia University

chapter 6|11 pages

Learning to See

A Fulbright Semester Teaching Painting in Beijing

chapter 8|11 pages

Stoicism Unwound

Teaching About Emotional Literacy in China

chapter 9|10 pages

Beijing Musings

On Rubbish Management, Masks, Local Delicacies, and Lecturing While Living as a Fulbrighter