Word: mandarin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coop--Board of Directors, Glee Club. H/R Chorus, Winthrop Mandarin Table, House Academic Committee, Harvard Foundation...
...ARTISANS RANGE from being shy to extremely outgoing. Since none of them speak or understand English, it often seems that they are frustrated by their inability to communicate with their captive audiences. Since the museum relies on volunteers to staff the floors, a chronic shortage of Mandarin-speaking interpreters seems unavoidable...
Hersey's real story lies with the three major subdivision of Treadup, life after several years spent mastering Mandarin. He skillfully weaves the themes of Western knowledge and Christianity by having his young protagonist bring both to the Chinese at different point in his four-decade career. The science comes from a successful series of lectures throughout the vast country, the arts from two decades of literacy work. While ostensibly his mission was to proselytize. Treadup's Christianity shows most clearly after the Japanese invasion of Northern and coastal China at the end of his life. In different ways, however...
...sent to serve as an interpreter for the hundreds of thousands of Chinese 'coolie' laborers on the Western Front (itself a revealing and sobering interlude in The Call). Upon his return to China we witness a less ambitious David Treadup, a man who treasures his knowledge of Mandarin more than his knowledge of science, which he has seen put to such horrible use by the Great Powers against one another. He embarks on almost two decades of literacy training in a small circle of villages near Peking; such unprecedented teaching of ordinary peasants serves as an apt metaphor...
...American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, Ariz., is known worldwide for its preparation of global business managers, and about 25% of almost 1,000 full-time master's candidates are from foreign countries. The school provides instruction in eight tongues, among them Mandarin Chinese and English as a second language; the courses emphasize business terms used in macroeconomics and cross-cultural management. The school also tailors short programs for the special needs of multinational companies like Mitsubishi Electric, which recently sent nine managers and engineers for a 14-week program on English language and American management...