Presidential Elections Program 2004 USCET welcomed a delegation of Chinese scholars in the final week of September 2004. These scholars had competed to be part of the Presidential Debate Delegation, which USCET believes was the first group of Chinese professors to view a presidential debate as members of the live audience. USCET set up a…
Legislative Training On March 25 and 26, 2006, the US-China Education Trust partnered with Fudan University’s Center for American Studies (CAS), the Shanghai Municipal Peoples Congress and the Peking University Center for Peoples Congress and Foreign Legislature Studies to hold an innovative training program employing a practical, hands-on approach to study the US legislative process.…
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In 2008, the All-China Summer Institute for the Study of the US offered Chinese professors of American Studies the opportunity to experience American culture and society first-hand. Experiencing the history, culture, and politics of the US enabled these professors to create their own American Studies courses and curricula at their universities in China. The program consisted…
The first annual Institute on U.S. Foreign Policy for East Asian Student Leaders took place from August 1 – September 4, 2010. The Institute welcomed twenty students from China, Japan, and Korea to study American foreign policy in Washington, DC. The curriculum was designed to enhance students’ understanding of the historical underpinnings of U.S. actions…
Study of the US Summer Institutes USCET Summer Institutes provided Asian scholars of American Studies with the opportunity to experience the US firsthand. Participants in the 2008 Institute were American Studies professors from China; the 2010 and 2011 Institutes were for East Asian Student Leaders from China, Japan, and Korea. The summer programs brought next-generation…
Institute for American Society and Culture USCET’s programming for American Society and Culture aims to promote Chinese understanding of the role that socio-cultural factors, including religion, play in all facets of American life. 2014 Institute In partnership with the Center for American Studies at Fudan University, USCET held the 2014 Institute on American Society and Culture…
USCET’s first class of American Studies Fellows completed their fellowships in May 2012. Our first American Studies Fellow arrived in fall 2011, and the most recent spring 2012 Fellows returned to China at the end of May. Liu Humin, a PhD candidate and associate professor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, was USCET’s first American…
In the 2012-2013 academic year, USCET welcomes two new scholars to the U.S. as American Studies Fellows. Yao Guigui, the Director of the Center for American Culture Studies and an associate professor of English for the School of Foreign Languages at Jianghan University, was USCET’s fourth American Studies Fellow. She completed her fellowship at the Yale University under…
In the 2015 academic year, USCET welcomed two new scholars to the U.S. as American Studies Fellows. Dr. Lin Ling from Shanghai International Studies University who studied at Harvard University during Spring of 2015. Read on to hear about Dr. Ling’s experience. We currently have Dr. Shi Yi of China Foreign Affairs University also placed at Harvard for…