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#30 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (The Art of a Banquet)

June 10th 2006
The Art of a Banquet: The dining experience is traditionally an important event in China. Not only honoring a guest, it establishes and deepens personal relationships and fosters and encourages enthusiastic appreciation for one another. Pre-dating the time of Marco Polo, it is as much a ritual of food, as it is a festival of the "choicest" and the most "exotic" morsels. The sharing of food a ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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After 38 years as a Foreign Language Teacher and Foreign Language Dept. Chair at Coral Gables Sr. H.S., and A.J. Professor of German at the University of Miami, I have left Florida in June of 2006, where my home is in Miami Beach, Florida, USA. I have just signed another year's teaching-contract (my 8th year now) with Taizhou University in the city of Taizhou, located about 3hrs north of Shanghai, in Jiangsu Province, CHINA. I thought it would be informative for others and rewarding for me personally, to log the progress of my efforts from beginning to end, as a Travel and Photo Jo... full info

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