Teachers joined Tese Wintz Neighbor, an experienced NCTA seminar leader with a deep connection to China, as she lead her final seminar session. Tese’s journey with China began in 1976 when she was captivated by a professor’s lecture on “Red China” at Indiana University. Since then, she has never looked back.
Among the first Americans to travel to China after U.S.-China relations normalized in 1979, Tese moved there in the early 1980s and has returned more than 50 times, exploring the country by bike, on foot, by train, and by plane (she just returned from Beijing in late November!).
With 27 years of experience as an NCTA seminar leader, Tese invited participants to explore five decades of Chinese history and culture through her unique perspective—rooted in her extensive travels and enriched by the session’s required readings.
Books for this seminar
Participants received the following books for free:
Dates and Time
Participants chose to attend as part of Group 1, or as part of Group 2:
Program Requirements
Participants in this program were required to complete 8–10 hours of readings, attend 8 hours of class across four mandatory sessions, and submit a short final project.
Program benefits
- A physical copy of the books Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China’s New Social Order by Yuan Yang, Americans in China: Encounters with the People’s Republic by Terry Lautz (before the start of the seminar) as well as other books (details TBD) after the completion of the program.
- Online Resources.
- 20 Free Washington State OSPI clock hours.
- Participants who attended all sessions and completed all requirements received a stipend for $100 to order more books/resources for their classroom.
This program was sponsored by the East Asia Resource Center at the University of Washington and funded by a Freeman Foundation grant in support of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA).