Programs Annual Lecture Series Creation and Recreation The Center brings leading scholars each year to the campus to give lectures on cutting edge scholarships, on significant events, or on other important issues dealing with Asia. Colloquium Series The Center organizes workshops and colloquium each year where scholars from Kalamazoo College and other institutions get together to share their recent research interests or discuss key issues related to Asia. Topics vary each year. Faculty-led On-site Studies Courses In addition to the well established Kalamazoo College junior year study abroad programs, each year the Center offers one or two courses for Kalamazoo College students in Asian countries or regions for in-depth, on-site study led by Kalamazoo College Faculty. The current program allows for faculty led immersion courses through 2005 to such possible locations as China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. These seminars take place between academic quarters and generally last 3-4 weeks. Content varies for each course. Courses have included "Contemporary China: Transformation and Challenges" focusing on modern Chinese and international history (Winter 2003), "The Courtier Monk and Warrior: Japanese Culture from 600 to 1450 CE" introducing arts, aesthetics, literature and religion of the Nara, Heian, and Kamakura periods of Japanese history (Summer 2003), and "Buddhism in China" exploring the rich history of Chinese Buddhism with focus on its arrival and early history in China (Summer 2002). 2005 International Study Seminar in Japan Program Description:PDF File 2005 International Study Seminar in China Program Description: PDF File 2004 International Study Seminar in Japan Program Description:Word Doc 2004 International Study Seminar in China Program Description: Word Doc
See Our Pictures From theChina trip in 2003!!! See Our Pictures From Japan!!!

Outreach Programs

Teach Asia: Summer Institute for Secondary School Teachers: Each summer the Center organizes a workshop for high school teachers. The workshop focuses on key themes and areas of Asian studies for a close examination. The 2004 summer workshop will be devoted to modern China with special attention to its history, contemporary politics, economy and society, and its interaction with the outside world. Program Description for Seminar I: Word Doc Program Description for Seminar II: Word Doc Brochure: Outside View (72K), Inside View (70K)

Study Asia: Summer Institute for High School Students: Each year, the Summer Institute provides students the opportunity for more in-depth study about a particular area or issue related to Asia, and a chance to personally visit the places and people they have studied in the classroom. The 2004 program will provide students with unique opportunities to visit China. Brochure: Outside View (91K), Inside View (80K) Kalamazoo College has awarded fellowships to 16 high school sophomores and juniors to study about and travel to China this summer. The program starts with three days (July 14-17) on Kalamazoo College’s campus to introduce students to Chinese history, culture and society. Students will be given Chinese names and will learn to write them in calligraphy using traditional Chinese brushes, ink sticks and ink stones. Other activities such tai chi, and acupuncture demonstrations are planned. Students will then travel in China for two weeks, where they will visit the Temple of Heaven, Forbidden City, Great Wall, and Ming Tombs and many other sites in Beijing, Xian. Leading the group will be Ms. Claire Kotenbeutel, recipient of a number of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities for Chinese language study and author of several books on teaching Chinese in secondary schools. Ms. Kotenbeutel taught Chinese, French and German in the Madison Metropolitan School District for over 30 years and has led several high school student groups to China and France. The majority of the students’ expenses will be covered by a generous grant from the Freeman Foundation. Participants have paid a $500 deposit and will need to cover fees for immunizations, travel to Kalamazoo (when applicable) and incidental expenses.

Scholar-in-Residence Program
The Center offers a scholar-in-residence position each year, to be filled by an exchange fellow from the college's study abroad sites in Asia. The scholar will be at Kalamazoo College for approximately four months and participate in the Center's academic and co-curricular programs.

Future Visiting Scholar

Dr. Sumimaru Odana (2004)
Dr. Sumimaru Odana is currently a professor in the Faculty of Economics at Shiga University in Japan. After receiving his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington in Seattle, he taught at the University of Washington, International University of Japan in Niigata, Osaka International University, and has served as a Resident Economic Adviser to the National Development Planning Agency for the government of Indonesia. Dr. Odano has written widely on economic issues in both English and Japanese, edited several books, translated books on economy, and has been a guest speaker/lecturer on economy many times throughout Asia.

Former Visiting Scholars

Li Zhai (2003)
Dr. Li Zhai is currently associate professor at the Fudan University department of marketing in Shanghai and received her Ph. D. in Management Science from Fudan University. She is also the director of the Cooperation Program between Fudan University and the Norwegian School of Management and has recently been an International Faculty Fellow at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Dr. Zhai's areas of interest include technology management, new product development management, and project management. She has done a great deal of international exchange and consulting work and also teaches a variety of management and entrepreneurship classes; thus, her lectures will focus on entrepreneurship and management in China.

Liugen Xu (2002)
Visiting Professor, Liugen Xu, is currently Vice-president of the China Social Work Association. Retired as Director-General, Department for International Cooperation Office for Indo-Chinese Refugees, Office for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs of The Ministry of Civil Affairs, China. Liugen Xu presently is a member of the Executive Council, China Charity Federation, and Council Member of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, China Association for Overseas Exchanges, and, China Association for International Understanding. In 2000 he was a Visiting Fellow at Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.

Ms. Huiwen Chang, Instructor of Chinese Language (2004)

Huiwen Chang received her master degree from National Taiwan Normal University. She has taught Chinese Language in National Taiwan University, National Taiwan Normal University and National Central University in Taiwan. Moreover, she taught Chinese Language in Washington and Lee University, VA. Her topic of the thesis is The design of second language textbook for Chinese Medicine.

Ann You (2005)
Ann You received her B.A. and M.A. in history at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. She has taught Modern Chinese History at Nankai University in Tianjin and has contributed articles for history books and magazines published in China. She has been teaching Chinese language to the children at local Chinese school since 2001.