Summer Camp for Teachers of Chinese Culture

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Join us in China this July for a month-long Summer Camp. We will be carefully reading through the classical cannons and working on interpretive and pedagogical strategies for teaching Chinese culture to western students.
Please note: We have removed the Chinese language requirement since all classes will be conducted in English and we will be working with previously translated materials.
Applications are requested by April 1. If you need extra time, contact us and we will make allowances.

The Summer Camp is structured around courses taught by distinguished professors and translators Roger T. Ames, Henry Rosemont, Jr., and Tian Chenshan. This unique program will impart an interpretive strategy that allows the Classics to speak from within a distinctive Chinese tradition, bypassing the myriad problems caused by viewing Chinese thought through the lens of western presuppositions. We will be carefully considering the differences in language and cultural context that make teaching Chinese subjects both challenging and enriching. China’s rising global influence and the revival of Confucianism as a cultural force create a need for educators and scholars who can take that tradition on its own terms and explain it to students in the modern world.



The program will be held at The Nishan Birthplace of the Sage Academy located in Confucius’s hometown near Mount Nishan in Sishui County, Shandong Province. The Academy provides comfortable modern accommodations and a convenient base for field trips to both Confucius’s and Mencius’s birthplaces, homes, temples, and tombs. The Academy is on the leading edge of the burgeoning revival of traditional culture in China.



The sponsors at the Center for East-West Relations at Beijing Foreign Studies University, the Bejing Sihai Confucius Academy, the Nishan Birthplace of the Sage Academy, and the East-West Center in Hawaii welcome and encourage you to join us this July for a unique and enriching summer program.



For more information and application instructions, see our website at http://www.cewr-china.com/ and http://cewren.user.d-jet.com/show.aspx?id=69&cid=12 or email us at [font='Meiryo','sans-serif']nishansummercewrbw@gmail.com[/font] or call 011-86-10-8881-5305.