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Yale-China Association
Mission: "To promote mutual understanding between people of China and the United States through cultural and educational exchange in the fields of medicine, public health, American studies and English language instruction"
In China since: 1902
Annual China budget: $1,000,000
Mainland China contact:
New Territories,
Hong Kong Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2609 7605
Fax: +852 2603 5407
International Contact:
William E Watkins
Director
New Asia College,The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, New Territories
Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2609 7605
Fax: +852 2603 5407
Nancy Chapman
Executive Director
PO Box 208223
New Haven
CT 06520-8223
United States
Tel: +1 203 432 0880
Fax: +1 203 432 7246
Back in 1901, Yale University established a Yale Foreign Missionary Society that helped to introduce Western medical knowledge to China. In Hunan, the Society founded the Yali Union Middle School and, in 1917, the Hsiang Ya hospital and medical school. This was the first electrified building in the city of Changsha, and the hospital continued to function throughout the Sino-Japanese war, although it had to re-locate first to Guangxi and then to Guizhou. Yale was also one of the co-founders of Hua Chung University in Wuhan, Hubei. In 1934 the Society was re-incorporated as a secular organisation that is now known as the Yale-China Association.
During China’s opening and reform period the Association has re-established cooperative links with China. Each year it sends a small number of Yale graduates to sever as English teachers and teacher trainers in the Yali Middle School, and several other centers of higher education; and it has also placed American lawyers as teachers in Chinese universities.
Since 1995, Yale-China has collaborated each year with a different Chinese university to arrange an American Studies graduate level summer school for students from East Asian countries. These courses are led by Yale professors and have centred on topics such as ‘race and ethnicity’, ‘rule of law’ and ‘culture and consumption’.
Also from the mid-90s, the Association has collaborated with the Hsiang-Ya hospital and medical school and other similar institutions on nurse training and HIV/AIDS prevention programmes. These have recently extended to other parts of China, in partnership with the National Nursing Centre of China. Nurse educators from China and America have delivered training courses to counterparts in provinces such as Yunnan and Xinjiang.
This organization is funded by grants and private donations.
Links
http://www.yalechina.org
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