Newsletter

Solar Cookers in Tibet

In the People's Republic of China's remote, windswept Qinghai province – traditionally the Amdo region of the Tibetan Plateau – solar cookers are changing the way of life of the Tibetan minority inhabiting the rural areas of the region. In Xining, the capital of Qinghai, I met the man responsible for this transformation.

This article was published in Abroad View, the global education magazine for students, in May 2006, by China Center student, Josiah Johnston.  Read more...

Spring 2006 In Touch Internship

Spring 2006 China Center senior student, Josiah Johnston, and Friends World alumna, Katie Morabito, published the following articles and photographs while conducting internships with the provincial-level government-sponsored, English language magazine, In Touch Zhejiang.
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Student Newsletter Spring 2006

A New Year in Tibet by Josiah Ramsay Johnston

The dim light cast long-fingered shadows along the splintered walls of the village tavern, dappling the faded images of Tibetan celebrities half-shredded by time with shades of yellow and grey, covering the scene in which I sat with a golden glow, from the half-seen visages of grinning individuals who had never before met a westerner, to the man standing serenading us with his mandel and his voice, in traditional Tibetan style, to the small stove burning coal late into the night, emanating heat from the middle of the room. The village’s name has faded into the rivers of baijiu that poured from the hard bottle that seemed to be clenching a cigarette in its mouth that night, a village just outside of Tongren city in Qinghai province, in a valley surrounded by a lunar landscape of craters and yaks: It was the end of the third day of the Lunar New Year, a day which, in this village, at least, saw various rituals performed throughout the firework-spangled night.

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Student Newsletter Fall 2005

Legend of White Snake Inc. by Paul Cox

Pilgrimage to Mount Jiuhua by Gillian Siple

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