Teaching at Nanjing Union Theological Seminary

On a back lane in the bustling Xinjiekou District of the city center of Nanjing is a quiet almost hidden "oasis", the campus of Nanjing Union Theological Seminary. This is temporary home to nearly two hundred students preparing for leadership and teaching for the Chinese Protestant Church. Union Theological Seminary (UTS) Nanjing is the national seminary of the China Christian Council. It has 27 fulltime Chinese teaching staff. The addition of a few foreign teachers is a new experiment. The hope seems to be that the foreign teachers will bring different experiences, perspectives and teaching methodologies into the faculty mix. The first two foreign faculty members taught at UTS in the 2001-02 year.     

The Door to the Christian World

THE Nanjing Union Theological Seminary (Nanjing Union) is in an obscure alley in the busiest part of Nanjing-downtown Xinjiekou. It brings to mind the Chinese philosophical paradox-that the highest state of reclusion may be found within the densest urban jungle. Nanjing was formerly the political and economic center of southern China, and served as capital for 10 dynasties. Between 1912 and 1949 it was the capital of the Republic of China. The Nanjing Union Theological Seminary is the highest Christian academy in China. It was founded in 1952 by combining 12 of East China's Christian seminaries. "The in-orbit development of the seminary did not occur until 1981, when it resumed enrolment,"says 90-year-old Professor Chen Zemin, former vice president of the seminary. Since 1981, the Nanjing Union has graduated 3,000 students. A full 80 percent of them work in churches, Christian organizations and seminaries across the country, forming the backbone of the Chinese Christian community. Eighty percent of the teaching staff at Chinese Christian seminaries graduated from the Nanjing Union.     

Chang''''an a Crossroads for Early Christianity in Chia

Thick Stands of bamboo line the small road leading up; to the fa mous Lou Guan Tai. About 1,400 years ago, Lou Guan Tai was the maior Taoist centre in China. Lao Zi is believed to have written the Tao Te Ching here in the 6th century BC. Todav it is a pleasant temple, surrounded by (?)orest ana quiet countryside.But this time we are nere to see another temple, said to be near Lou Guan. It is called Da Qin, and it remained in relative obscurity for centuries until its role in the 7th century Christian church was rediscovered recently.The trip to Lou Guan began to take     

Classic Foreign Literature in China

CLASSIC foreign literature is big business in presentday China, with countless editions by small publishing houses competing with versions released by long-established state publishing firms. Literature from overseas is nothing new in China; late Qing Dynasty scholar Lin Shu （1852-1924） published 222 Chinese versions of foreign works in his lifetime, including 160 novels. Lin was the first to publish a local translation of a classic Western novel, with the release of The Lady of the Camellias in 1900. His other translations included works by famous novelists such as Charles Dickens and English playwright William Shakespeare. Lin had to rely on oral translations of others, however, as he did not understand foreign languages himself.     

Honoring History for Peace

The newly-renovated Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum was reopened to the public on December 13,2007,just in time for the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre. On December 13,1937,the Japanese army occupied Nanjing and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians in the fol- lowing six weeks. Located in Nanjing,capital of east China's Jiangsu Province,the new museum covers an area of about 6.7 hectares,which is almost four times the size of the old museum.In addition to the Peace Bell and     

学生对大学英语课堂语码转换的期望调查研究(英文)

Code-switching in the English as a foreign language(EFL) classroom is a disputable subject in the academic area. There are two main schools of thought toward English-Chinese code-switching. One holds an opinion that the code switching as a barrier for the first language may produce interference and negative transfer, while another argues code-switching as a facilitator for the first language may provide the most effective meanings of learning. The focus of the argument is to use or not use the mother tongue. In this paper, an attempt has been made to investigate whether it is necessary to use code-switching in the college English class from the perspective of English learners. By doing so, a questionnaire has been made to reveal the expectations of students with different English proficiency toward code-switching. And then the paper has provided suggestions on the way of using appropriate code-switching strategies in class to facilitate EFL learning.     

Xiaojin, a Land to Ease the Soul

SICHUAN Province is China's second- largest Tibetan area. It contains the coun- try's largest population of the Yi ethnic group, as well as the only precinct of the Qiang ethnic minority. It is also home to China's world famous giant pandas. Xiao- jin County is in Sichuan's Aba Tibetan and Qiang Au- tonomous Prefecture. Formerly known as Maogong, this small town rose to fame after an historical event in 1935 during the Chinese civil war. It was here that troops led by the PRC's found…     

The Idea of Home

AS an old saying goes, ＂Home is where the heart is.＂ So even if your home goes through changes, as long as there is love it will be there. I was born in a very small village with only a few households along the coastal area of northern Jiangsu Province, at the end of 1969. Over the 40 years of my life I have experienced many changes, moving from deep in the countryside, to a larger village, then a small town and finally a city, eventually settling down in Beijing.     

World Attention Focuses on China Tourism——The First World Summit of Tourism Promotion to be Held in Nanjing Grandly

The Press Conference of the First World Summit of Tourism Promo tion was held in Nanjing on July 28. The summit would be a major event in tourism development in our country. It is known that initiated by World Trade University of UN and intended to promote the globalization of tourism, the UN Global Partnership Program, - the First World Summit of Tourism Promotion is to be held in Nanjing, China, in November, 2004.The World Summit of Tourism Pro-     

Memoirs of an English Teacher

The most common job amongst expats in Beijing,by far,is teaching English.Whether it is a full-time occupation or a way to earn some extra cash alongside studies or other work,many members of the expat community have experience working as teachers. A seemingly insatiable demand for English speakers to teach adults as well as children to speak the lingua franca of the international business world has produced an array of language centers and schools of highly varying degrees of reliability.All Chinese people learn basic English in school,yet the general level of oral English remains poor and is often restricted to a handful of words (though the younger generations are getting much better).English classes once put heavy emphasis on the written form,but over the past decade more attention has been paid to speaking skills as China's youth look for opportunities to study and work abroad.     

Jiangxinzhou-Emerald on the Yangtze River

Jiangxinzhou, green as jade and shaped like a green plum, is inlaid on the Yangtze River, in the western part of Jianye District in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. It is only 6 kilometers away from Xinjiekou, the downtown commercial center, and is separated from the new modern city, the New District of Hexi in Nanjing, with a strip of water. The river with a distant source and long stream is just like the arms of a mother to embrace the green island of 15 kilometers and to nourish the 12,000 residents at the island.     

Grief over Death of Mr.Ikuo Hirayama

It was raining in Nanjing on December 2,2009.On the morning of this cold winter day,I was shocked to learn that Mr.Ikuo Hirayama had passed away in Tokyo at the age of 79.He was an outstanding cultural envoy as well as a world-renowned artist.For more than half a century, following the footsteps of Xuan Zang (the 7th Century Chinese Buddhist monk,scholar and traveler who journeyed to India in search of knowledge) and overcoming many hard-     

Nanjing University

Nanjing University is of one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in china.It is located in Nanjing,China‘s capital for six ancient dynasties and site of some of the country‘s richest cultural heritage.Founded in 1902 as Sanjiang Normal School,today‘s Nanjing University is based on the merging of National Nanjing Universtity‘s arts and sciences colleges with those of the famous University of Nanking in 1952.     

Memorial Day Set to Honor Victims and Remember History

ON February 27, 2014 the Standing Committee of the National People＇s Congress passed a decision on a memo-rial day to honor victims of the Nanjing Massacre. The move is in response to a strong call from the Chinese people for a national salute to the victims and is also in line with international norms. The memorial day, as remembrance of a hor- rifle episode in China＇s history, is bound to have a global impact.     

The Death of Comedy

THE scenario of celebrities, flash bulbs popping, and the press at the launching of a "small book" is rare, even in Chinese publishing circles, accustomed as they are to hype. Liang Zuo, whose works comprise this feted book, was never the subject of such …     

Zhang Xing and His Pottery Artforms

ZHANG Xing is irrevocably committed to pottery. This 37-year-old artist still gets extremely excited when he recalls completing his first piece of pottery. "The clay I use in pottery, even for making something as small as a button, is as remarkable to me now as it was when I was a boy, and made my first miniature clay figurine," he enthused. "After being taken out of the kiln it is always strikingly vivid, after adding just a few colors before it is fired, as if it had a life of its own."Af…     

Moving Forward, Looking Back: Modern Dance in China Blends Old with New

While traditional dances still abound in China at academies and social clubs, there is more to dance in the Middle Kingdom these days than fans and acrobatics. The first official modern dance company was founded in South China's Guangdong province in 1992. Since then, a small number of other government-approved as well as independent companies have come about, while members from the original company have spread throughout China and to such countries as Germany, Japan and the United States.     

The Qinhuai Rver——One Beautiful,Living and Prosperous River

The QinHuai River, Living with thousands of historyThe Qinhuai River, as one branch of Southern Bank of the Changjiang River Downstream, is about 110 Km long, with the drainage area of about 2,631Km2. The Watershed within Nanjing Area is divided into master steam and tributary, flowing from Xibei Village in Jiangning District to Entrance of the Changjiang River in Sancha River, the length is about 34 Km, as Shipping Convention, this named as Outer Qinhuai River, and as no-shipping     

Tide of Change

Li Zhengde regards the Yangtze River as the highway of his youth.Born in a small town in south China's Hunan Province,Li grew up near the Zijiang River, a tributary of the Yangtze,and in 1976, boats were the major mode of transport there.In the 1990s,he had to take a year off from school due to illness and sailed to nearby Wuhan Province on his cousin's wooden junk,It was his first trip outside Hunan and the one-month sailing experience is etched indelibly in his mind.     

Nanjing''''s new green-project of ecology—Interviewe with Sheng Jinlong vice-mayor of Nanjing municiple government

Nanjing is located in the developed economic delta as a central city in the mid-lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The municipality made a decision on rapidly developing its urban forest project. Chinaweek reporter had an interview with Mr Sheng Jinlong, one of Nanjing's mayors, to talk something about what readers both at home and abroad are much more concerned. Reporter: Building Nanjing into a green city is a system of ecological project that will serve the present and benefit the future. First of all, I'd like to ask a question about the historical background by taking such a great measure.