Comments | kyllo_in_china: I want to go to Taiwan.

kyllo_in_china

I want to go to Taiwan.

Apr 18, 2005 11:17

And I have a few ideas of ways to do it, as a student (because there's no way I'm doing it as an English teacher, and having a BA in Chinese doesn't mean I can get a good job in Taiwan ( Read more... )

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Studying in Asia alissah April 18 2005, 09:25:54 UTC

Since I am planning on going to grad school in Hong Kong this coming year, thought I would share what I know with you ( ... )

More on Studying in Asia alissah April 18 2005, 09:26:39 UTC

In my interviews with four Hong Kong universities, I didn't get any negative comments about being a foreigner. But I got some questions about why I want to come to Hong Kong. So far, I have been assuming that schools would actually really WANT a foreign student because it gives them good photo-ops and stats for their status reports (perhaps a bit big-headed of me, but it seems reasonable to say that schools like "international reputations"). Yet no professor was rolling out any red carpet for me, so I don't think that preferential treatment is that overboard. Still don't have my grad application results back yet....so it remains to be seen how easy it is to get in. In Hong Kong, there are very few open spaces each year so every professor I talked to told me competition was keen. I still worry that I might get knocked down because I am not a native Chinese speaker and they don't have enough confidence in my language abilities. Yet there was no official pen'n'paper testing of my language abilities...although there were interviews ( ... )

Re: More on Studying in Asia kyllo_in_china April 18 2005, 23:00:46 UTC

Well, I like studying in a Chinese environment like we are now, but I want more and I want better. Mainland China is definitely out of the question for me, as well, for the same reason you mentioned, plus I'm studying the kinds of things that mainland professors are not allowed to teach you. So Taiwan sounds like the most ideal place for me to get an education in a Mandarin-speaking environment ( ... )

Re: More on Studying in Asia alissah April 19 2005, 07:52:40 UTC

Your profs in the U.S. should definintely has some idea of the quality of the departments in Taiwan (if the U.S. profs you are talking to are involved with China Studies at all). The reasoning is because if those Taiwanese profs are doing anything worthwhile then they have been published and are going to conferences...and it's an academic's responsbility to know who's who ( ... )