History, Culture, and Art (a student blog)
At Columbia College Chicago, we like to say the city is our classroom, and our students learn from the creative professionals producing the culture of our time. But what if the culture you want to study is that of contemporary China? If you're one of the Columbia undergraduate students keeping this blog, you take your 'classroom' to Shanghai.
This month, a dozen students from a variety of majors headed 7,000 miles east on an international educational adventure. They are enrolled in the Liberal Education department's intensive, winter-term humanities course, J-term in Shanghai: History, Culture, and Art. In China, they'll meet artists and curators; visit tea houses, museums, and galleries; attend music and dance performances; and learn a whole lot about their Chinese counterparts--and themselves.
Bush and Burgers: American Exports
Missing It
Caged Artists Are as Sad as Caged Birds to Me
Manners and Degrees
It's Where You Are, not Where You're From
Hearing Chinese Music
Making New Friends
China's Music Scene: GuZheng to Hip-Hop
Destination: Home
Shanghai: A Little Bit Of Everything
Last Hurrah
Almost Famous
The Struggle Over Preservation and Development
The Mysterious Disappearance of Sleepy-time
Great Food, Small Houses
China ... Or The Matrix?
Understanding Cabbies
"We'll Have What They're Having"
One-star Breakfast at Motel 168
Some Well-Spent Free Time
Museums and Musicians
Guys Like to Blow Things Up, Women Like to Solve Puzzles?
Museum Trip
The Forgotten Pants Debacle
The Humble Administrator's Garden
Gardens, Food, and Silk
A Run-In with an Arrogant Frenchman
New Friends and Cheap DVDs
Morning Exercise, and a Trip to Suzhou
A Few Notes on Cyclists in Shanghai
Perusing Shanghai's Galleries
Exploring Experimental Art
Examining the Differences of Eastern Art
A Day Well-Spent
Managing Jet Lag
Ode to My Friend and His Chinese Fighter-Pilot Helmet
New Food, New Experiences
Out with the Old, in with the New
Documenting Day Two
Comforted by Jackie Chan
In closing...
Good to be back
Peace out
It's... an... experience...
Day 10: Time to come home
Not a goodbye
An open mind, overflowing with...everything!
So long, Shanghai
A humble Uighur meal
Always use a map. Always.
A contemporary...?
The driving in Shanghai is schizophrenic, but in more ways than one might expect
This country is so unpredictable
No permanent!
Chinese Muslim experience
Artistic dialogue
Day 9: Suzhou Museum
Beautiful, provocative...crap
Thanks, Dad
Day 8: Under the weather
Getting Shanghaied in Wal-Mart
Day 7: Museum Day
Burgers, pizza, and sexy anime
A new understanding
Day 6: Tongji U and Jade on 36
Stress, strain, and automobiles
From art world to "Party World"
Day 5: Xintiandi, the Bund, Party World
Day 4: Moganshan Lu
"We speak English"
The rarest opportunity
A surprising openness
Crossing the border
Temples, taxis, and toilets
Day 3: Hot pot
Day 2: A surprise visitor
At night, the city glows
Day 1: and that was all before lunch
Ten hours until take-off
The difference a day makes
Pre-trip jitters
Ready for culture shock
Wow, this is just unbelievable...
A little distressed...
Happy New Year!
It hasn't quite hit me...
Anticipation
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