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Join First Saturday PDX for a look at the rush toward urbanization in rural Sichuan in the 1980s. With slides illustrating the countryside as she observed it, Nancy Dollahite discusses how these economic changes led to social changes in family structure. Living in Chongqing at the time, she was able to visit a wide sample of villages within a few hours of the rapidly changing city and interview the local people. She will also read from her recent book, Field Notes From Sichuan: Learning to be a Foreigner, and raise some questions about how each of us can most fruitfully encounter cultures and individuals who challenge our own deeply-held and cherished belief systems.
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About the speaker:
Nancy E. Dollahite was among the first foreigners to teach at the Sichuan Institute of Foreign Languages in Chongqing in southern China in the 1980s, where she encountered the challenges of living as a cultural outsider. While teaching and consulting in China, Mexico, Brazil, Scotland and the US for over 30 years since, she has continued to explore how we can best communicate across cultures.
Her first book, Why Americans Act That Way, a bilingual speaking - listening text, was written in collaboration with her Chinese colleague Gao Aiqun and published by Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Publishing House, Beijing, in l987. She edited a news digest, the China Digest, for the Northwest China Council from 1990 – 1999. She is also coauthor, with Julie Haun, of the textbook, Sourcework: Academic Writing From Sources, and has published numerous articles on teaching and cross-cultural topics. She currently writes for The Immigrant Story, a nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon.
Nancy E. Dollahite was among the first foreigners to teach at the Sichuan Institute of Foreign Languages in Chongqing in southern China in the 1980s, where she encountered the challenges of living as a cultural outsider. While teaching and consulting in China, Mexico, Brazil, Scotland and the US for over 30 years since, she has continued to explore how we can best communicate across cultures.
Her first book, Why Americans Act That Way, a bilingual speaking - listening text, was written in collaboration with her Chinese colleague Gao Aiqun and published by Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Publishing House, Beijing, in l987. She edited a news digest, the China Digest, for the Northwest China Council from 1990 – 1999. She is also coauthor, with Julie Haun, of the textbook, Sourcework: Academic Writing From Sources, and has published numerous articles on teaching and cross-cultural topics. She currently writes for The Immigrant Story, a nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon.
Our educational program series has been developed in collaboration with PSU’s Institute for Asian Studies, and is free and open to the public. First Saturday PDX current full season schedule and descriptions available HERE.
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Portland State University, Academic & Student Recreation Ctr (ASRC), Room 230
1800 SW 6th Ave, Portland OR 97201
Excellent MAX and bus transportation is right by the venue; plan your Trimet trip HERE. There is also a nearby parking structure at SW 6th and Harrison with an entrance on 6th Avenue is also available.
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View our regular monthly location by clicking on the address below for directions:
Portland State University, Academic & Student Recreation Ctr (ASRC), Room 230
1800 SW 6th Ave, Portland OR 97201
Excellent MAX and bus transportation is right by the venue; plan your Trimet trip HERE. There is also a nearby parking structure at SW 6th and Harrison with an entrance on 6th Avenue is also available.
View PSU Parking info:
https://www.pdx.edu/transportation/hourly-visitor-parking
