Tese Wintz Neighbor

Tese Wintz Neighbor has lived in Beijing and Hong Kong and has led educational tours all across Asia. She has an MA in China Regional Studies from the Henry Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. In the Pacific Northwest, she has worked as an Asian history instructor at Seattle-area colleges and as the Senior Director of Professional Development for the Seattle World Affairs Council. Tese has been part of the NCTA program since its inception where she has served as a seminar instructor, tour leader to China, and book club organizer. She is also the author of numerous curricula and articles on Asia. Photo credit: Lev L. Spiro.

Tese’s recent programs

• Book Club Graphic Memoir: “The Boy from Clearwater” NCTA Online Book Club (2024)
  • Book Club ““Zodiac” by Ai Weiwei– NCTA Online Book Club (2024)
    • Seminar “Hey! We Gotta Talk About This! China Matters! (2024)
    • Book Club “The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays (edited by Tenzin Dickie (2023)
    • Book Club “Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance” by Louisa Lim (2023)
    • Seminar NCTA Online Seminar: Looking Ahead – Chinese Youth (2023)
    • Book Club “Three Brothers: Memories of My Family” by Yan Lianke Online NCTA Book Club (2022)
    • Seminar Through a Lens: Exploring Contemporary China Through Film, Documentary and Social Media, PART TWO* (NCTA 2022 Seminar)
    • Book Club “Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World” Online NCTA Book Club (2022)
      • Book Club “The Shanghai Free Taxi” Online NCTA Book Club (2021)
        • Seminar Through a Lens: Exploring Contemporary China Through Film, Documentary and Social Media (2021)
          • Workshop Online Book Club, “Has China Won?” (2020)
            • • Workshop Online Book Club, “The Housekeeper and the Professor” (2020)
                • Workshop Online Book Club, “Convenience Store Woman”(2020)
                • Seminar China 2020: Understanding a Rising Power (2020)
                • Book Club North Korea Book Club (2019)
                  • Book Club China on our Minds and in our Classroom (2019)
                  • Seminar The Silk Roads – Yesterday and Today (2019)
                  • Workshop China 101 Teacher Workshop (2018)
                  • Seminar The Silk Roads – Yesterday and Today (2018)
                  • Workshop Global Energy Today: The Asian Nexus (2018)
                  • Seminar China Matters: From Mao to Now (2017)
                  • Book Club “Street of Eternal Happiness” (2017)
                  • Seminar China Matters: Understanding China in the 21st Century (2017)
                  • Seminar Exploring China through the Experiences of its Millennial Generation (2016)
                  • Workshop Global Asia: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (2015)
                  • SeminarChina Matters: Understanding China in the 21st Century (2015)
                  • Book Club “Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the 21st Century” (2014)
                  • Book Club “Eating Bitterness: Stories from the Front Lines of China’s Great Urban Migration” (2014)