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Memory, Connection and Community: My Fulbright Story

Margaret Rung 容麗恩 February 16, 2022

The Fulbright program shaped some of my earliest childhood memories. In 1967, my father received a Fulbright to National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan.  A math professor at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania, he and my mother had never been to another country (except perhaps a trip

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Life in Taiwan as Cultural Ambassadors

Shun-Yung Wang 王舜永 January 26, 2022

Although Fulbright Taiwan is officially named Foundation for Scholarly Exchange, the supported activities are not only about scholarship but also cultural exchange. Doing so, I firmly believe that we scholars can have a deeper understanding of the society, especially when interpreting research findings from a social-historical context that is very

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My Fulbright Program in Taiwan

Gabe Tiande-Wang 汪天德 January 11, 2022

I arrived in Taipei on January 31, 2021 to begin my Fulbright program in Taiwan. After three weeks of quarantine in two hotels in Taipei, I arrived at Tunghai University on February 22, 2021. My stay in the university was officially over by June 30, 2021 and I returned to

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Reflections on the Process of “Becoming” in Taiwan

Hannah Hurlbut 萬錦成 January 10, 2022

I distinctly remember my first reaction to the notification that I had received the  Fulbright Scholarship: I screamed, I called my loved ones, and then I worried if I had earned the right to be here. I think any student applying for nationally competitive scholarships must undergo the process of

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The Interminable Bento

Daniel Tam-Claiborne 譚大林 January 4, 2022

Noon came, and with it the sound of plastic rustling outside my door. I waited for the footsteps to grow faint as they padded down the hallway, followed by the ding of the elevator, then silence. I stuck my head out just beyond the threshold of the doorframe—and no further.

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Research on adoption of Common Core State Standards in the United States: A close look at experience in Pennsylvania

Feng-Chien Lee 李逢堅 November 8, 2021

Introduction Common Core State Standards (CCSS) marked significant curriculum reform in the U.S. CCSS set nationwide curriculum standards for the first time in U.S. history. In Taiwan, the 2001 curriculum reform of Grades 1-9 dramatically changed the goals from content-driven to ability-driven. Regrettably, the reform was not quite successful. Instruction

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Two Days in the “Rainy City”

Julian Tash August 5, 2021

My classmates and I took an unorthodox route to Keelung. Instead of riding a bus, we took the old coal mine railway that passed by the Ching-Tung Coal Mine Museum. Once we arrived at the train station, the dark clouds overhead let loose torrential rain that demonstrated why locals call

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在傅爾布萊特的獎學金中接軌國際

Yi-Yi Chou 周怡怡 March 24, 2021

我是2018到2019年傅爾布萊特計劃中「教師赴美進修暨協助華語教學獎助計劃」(FLTA)的獲獎者。過去我曾在國外從事媒體工作，在那期間，有幸接觸當地居民，常常感受到語言差異所造成的文化衝擊和誤解。

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A Very Full & Bright Fulbright Journey

Yi-Chun Tricia Lin 林怡君 January 12, 2021

Overview:  With only five vibrant weeks to go before the conclusion of the spring 2018 semester in the Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures, College of Indigenous Studies, at National Dong Hwa University (NDHU), I find it a bit hard to sum up this extraordinary and rich semester. Part of it

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Bryce Christensen: Bringing the Xing Moment to Cross-cultural Literary Study

Fulbright Taiwan January 5, 2021

Dr. Christensen taught at National Taiwan University for 2019-20 as a visiting Fulbright professor. He had two classes, respectively on Willa Cather and Mark Twain, in which he found students in different cultures interpreted literature in different but meaningful ways.

Dr. Bryce Christensen, professor of English at Southern Utah University, received his Ph. D. in English literature from Marquette University. His current research focuses on the relationship between science and poetry, on non-Western literature (especially classical Chinese literature), and on utopian literature.

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