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Global Archives Management Delegation Visits China
ELIzABETH W. ADkINS, CA, Ford Motor Company
It was my pleasure and honor to recently lead a delegation
of archivists to China. From October 10 to 20, the
group traveled to Beijing and Shanghai and learned about
the archives profession in China. The trip was organized
under the People to People Citizen Ambassador Programs.
People to People was founded in 1956 by President Dwight
D. Eisenhower in an effort to better promote cultural
understanding through the efforts of individuals. For more
information about the organization, see http://www.ambassadorprograms.org.
Twenty-two delegates and five guests participated in the
trip. The delegates visited with our Chinese archival counterparts
from various host institutions, while the guests took in
some of the local sites. All 27 of us were able to enjoy certain
sightseeing highlights. In Beijing, these included Tiananmen
Square, the Forbidden City, and the Great Wall. Other places of
interest were the Shanghai Museum, the Jade Buddha Temple,
and a silk rug factory in Shanghai. On our last day in the coun-
Elizabeth W. Adkins presents a certificate of appreciation to a faculty member of the
School of Information Resource Management at Renmin University of China.
The delegates and their guests pose in front of the entrance to the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. Bottom row, from left: Mark Thiel, Patricia Poskie-Thiel, Dianne Brown, Nurit Lifshitz,
Eric Hartmann, Mo-Ching Cheung, Helen Wong-Smith, Kathryn Pereira, Kathleen Marquis, D. Claudia Thompson, Dee Stout. Top row, from left: Mary Evans, Max Evans, James Petersen,
David McCartney, Stacy Belcher Gould, Fred Adkins, Laetitia Yeandle, Elizabeth Adkins, Patricia Scott, Kathleen Leary, Kenneth Schlesinger, Alison Bridger, Diane Dimkoff, Leon Stout. Not
pictured: John Treanor and Cynthia Treanor.
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