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Meredith Herald January 19, 2000 Campus News Visiting professor teaches about China Christina Hoi.der News Editor His name means “beautiful sea," but it took more than crossing that wide stretch of ocean for Meredith’s newest visiting professor from China to arrive on campus. "I spent the last night of the last century on a train. Some say I spent two centuries on it!.” said Jia Xiuhai. On Jan. 2, 2(XX), ten days earlier than his tlrst semester of teaching in the United Stales was lo begin, Mr. Jia, as students and faculty call him, stepped onto the Meredith campus. "1 didn’t realize 1 was early,” said Jia, laughing as he recounted his earfy arrival, "but it gave me more time so I could be well prepared.” Jia is a professor of English at the Dongbei University of Finance and Economics in Dalian, China. He has joined the Meredith faculty through an exchange professorship Meredith has with Dongbei. According to Dr. Carolyn Happer, professor of history, the exchange program has been running for approximately ten years. Through the exchange, a Dongbei professor leaches at Meredith during the spring semester, while a Meredith professor teaches at Dongbei during the summer. Jia will be visiting the Unit ed States for four and a half months, teaching at Meredith and traveling during the remainder of the time. He will teach two classes this semester The first, Intro ductory Chinese, will cover the phonetics of the Chinese lan guage, while the second. China Today, will explore the tradi tions found in Chinese art, cul ture, people and history. Jia graduated from the Dalian Foreign Language Insti tute in 1985, majoring in Eng lish language. After graduating from Dalian, he married in 1991. He and his wife have an - eight-year-old daughter. Today he teaches Advanced English and Listening at Dongbei. While in Raleigh. Jia will continue with many of his hob bies—’’swimming, playing table tennis, taking long walks, listening to violin and piano music"—and take up a few others.. Sightseeing ha.s been one of his newest hobbies in the U.S. Happer and other Meredith fac ulty have already exposed Jia to a small part of RTP culture including visits to a Meredith basketball game, Duke Chapel and the N.C. Mu.seum of An. Yet this is only the beginning. Jia plans to travel to Los Ange les, San Francisco. New York City and Washington, D.C. before he leaves the U.S. Jia is excited to teach at Meredith. He hopes that his lectures will bring a new inter est in China to Meredith stu dents. “Many Americans don’t have the opportunity to visit China. They may have some picture. I hope my lecturcs will bring a real picture to them, will introduce them to China.” On Thursday, Jan. 20 at 7 p.m., Happer and Jia will host a meeting where students can meet Jia and learn more about Meredith’s study abroad pro gram in China during the sum mer. A copy of Jia’s syllabus will be available this week. If students find a class lecture to be of interest to them, they are invited to visit the class and learn more about China. “More than one fourth of the world is Chinese, so it would be an asset to anyone who has some knowledge of the Chine.se lan guage," said Happer. Jia’s visit thus far has been, in his words, “totally out of my expectations.” He is staying at the Lemmon House, the school’s house for official visi tors located outside of the back gates of Meredith. Happer encourages students to talk with Jia and tell him about any places of interest during his "visit in Raleigh. Contact Jia at the Lemmon House at 834-05.^2 or at his office in Joyner 210 at 760- 8559. Let it snow, says Meredith Leslie Maxwell Editor in chief Students woke up Tuesday morning, the day after a long weekend, only to find three inches of snow covering the ground and to discover that Tuesday’s clas.ses were can celled. Tuesday afternoon, administration announced that Wednesday’s classes would begin at 11 a.m. N.C. State did not hold classes today because of the holiday, but other area schools like St. Mary’s and Wake County Schools were clo.sed. Other schools, however, did not take the snow as seriously. Pcace College was on a two- hour delay, 'and UNC-Chapel Hill held classes as usual. Instead of classes, students caught up on homework and stayed warm. In addition, they found some time for. play as they used plastic trash bags to slide down Meredith's many hills. Snowball fights were not uncommon, and students saw the occasional snow person or snow angel. Vm wo Ecow Major butthisisaqrcatdeall scats for ^20 ^*3 seats for Get great seats at a great price. 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