Exchange Database
August 4, 2014
David LaMorte, assistant principal of visual performing and career arts and director of the Tottenville High School Marching Band, welcomes Chinese exchange students with Li Li, president of the Sino-American Culture and Arts Foundation (SACAF) during an event at Tottenville High School in Staten Island, New York.
August 2, 2014
Driven to teach and promote traditional Chinese calligraphy, Chinese calligrapher Pang Zhonghua, a pioneer of hard-nib calligraphy, brought his art and unique style of instruction to the "Vision & Innovation" annual forum in New York.
May 21, 2014
In 1973, the Philadelphia Orchestra was invited by then US President Richard Nixon to go to China following his historic trip there a year earlier. Its performance in front of a fully packed audience at Beijing's Cultural Palace of Nationalities was the first by an American orchestra since 1949 when the People's Republic of China was founded.
The orchestra, which has since become well-known among the Chinese, has kept going back over the past decades.
July 25, 2014
Naval vessels participate in Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) multinational naval exercises conduct drills near Hawaii, July 25, 2014.
May 31, 2014
US-China Student Summit is a two-day event that brought Chinese and US college students together for various activities, including travel to Chinese cities, speeches, campus visits to Chinese universities and small-group discussions.
Prior to the summit, delegations explored Shanghai and Beijing, for cultural experiences, visits to local businesses and school tours for 10 days.
The trip was organized and partially funded by the 100,000 Strong Foundation which encourages students of diverse backgrounds from across the country to learn Mandarin and study in China and WorldStrides, a privat
September 8, 2014
China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group kicked off its 10-day international roadshow to pitch investors prior to its expected record-breaking initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange. Alibaba's founder and executive chairman Jack Ma reportedly met with several hundred investors at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, the roadshow's first stop before the company continues the tour in the US, Europe and Asia, including cities like Boston, Los Angeles, Singapore and London.
September 1, 2015
China is definitely not a market that most sports fans would associate with American football, but a dedicated group of US businessmen are trying to change that perception by helping bring a professional indoor football league to China. Judge, the founder of the Judge Group Inc, a global professional services firm based in the Philadelphia area, has partnered with former National Football League (NFL) quarterback Ron Jaworski and Super Bowl-winning coach Dick Vermeil, among others, to help bring football to fans in China.
July 1, 2014
A study abroad program at Fudan University. Fudan University was founded in 1905, and named after a Confucian classic “Shang Shu” written about two thousand years ago. Over the past 80 years, Fudan University has grown into a comprehensive university consisting of 5 branches of learning: the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, technological sciences, and management studies. Fudan has 8 schools, 29 departments, 23 research institutes, and 9 inter department centers. Over 11,000 students attend, and is staffed by more than 2500 teachers.
January 1, 2015
Located on the state-of-the-art Duke Kunshan University campus in Kunshan, China, the Duke Kunshan University Global Learning Semester is an innovative semester-long liberal arts education program for undergraduate students from around the world. The program is ideal for students who seek interactive classroom discussions, thrive on engagement with faculty and peers outside the classroom, and display a natural curiosity about the diversity of the world’s cultures.
January 13, 2014
A study abroad program in Shanghai. The campus location is close to the commercial center of Shanghai, which is easy to get to by local transportation. It is a modern University with advanced facilities for studying and living on campus. Since the 1970’s, foreign students have been attending programs here and currently now offer over 23 Master Degrees and 10 doctoral programs. Over 2000 foreign students study here every year, from over 60 countries.