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The Ninth Term of the Stanford
Program in Beijing Concludes
PKU NEWS 2008—12—22
http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=229924780
Peking University, Dec. 12, 2008: A Peking University student played High Mountain
and Flowing Water along with a piece of ancient Chinese Guzheng (traditional
Chinese instrument, Ancient Chinese Zither) music to bring the ninth term of the
Stanford Program in Beijing to a close. The piece is meant to represent the long
lasting friendships between the students, the professors and PKU and Stanford.
Officials of Peking University‘s Office of International Relationship (OIR), Stanford
Program Office, professors and students attended the ceremony at Lin Huxuan
Guest House.
On behalf of the OIR, which is the PKU‘s cooperating office of the program,
Executive director Xia Hongwei, addressed all the participators with warm
congratulations. He recalled the program‘s history since 2004, during which 9 terms
of the program had been successfully held and over 50 professors from both
Stanford University and PKU had lectured more than 500 students from the two
universities in courses about Chinese culture, history, society and language. Mr. Xia
sincerely thanked Stanford University and PKU‘s professors who devoted their
passion into this three-month course term and also into the program‘s development.
He mentioned PKU‘s hope that the current 22 Stanford students in the program
would return to America with warm memories about PKU, Beijing, China, and share it
with their American friends. In this way, students contribute their knowledge and
understandings of China to the Sino-US friendship.
Professor Li Xiaoqi, Dean of International College for Chinese Language Studies,
said in her address that the college has always attached great importance to the
Chinese language teaching in this program and appointed the strongest group of
Chinese teachers to teach Stanford students Chinese language based on different
levels. Ms. Li was happy to see that Stanford students all worked very hard in
improving their Chinese and also achieved great scores in their Chinese language
courses. She hoped they can continue practicing Chinese even after they go back to
America.
Representing Professors from PKU teaching Stanford students these past three
months, Professor Chen Dong from the School of Economics expressed his
gratitude and holiday wishes to the students for the upcoming New Year. Stanford
students expressed their gratitude with an enthusiastic applause.
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