Being prepared in China, says one researcher, can mean "the difference between a headache and a productive day." Acclaimed by readers, this friendly and practical volume--now updated with important new information--offers all the details academic visitors need to make long-term stays in China productive, comfortable, and fun. Academic opportunities have been revived in the years since the Tiananmen Square event, and the book opens with an overview of what we have learned from our academic exchanges with China, the opportunities now available, and resources for more information. To help visitors prepare for daily life, the book covers everything from how to obtain the correct travel documents to what kinds of snack foods are available in China, from securing accommodations to having the proper gift for your Chinese dinner host. Frank discussions on the research and academic environments in China will help students, investigators, and teachers from their initial assignment to a danwei, or work unit, to leaving the country with research materials intact. The book offers practical guidelines on working with Chinese academic institutions and research assistants, arranging work-related travel, managing working relationships, resolving language issues, and--perhaps most important--understanding Chinese attitudes and customs toward study, research, and work life. New material in this edition includes an expanded section on science and social science field work, with a discussion of computers: which ones work best in China, how to arrange to bring your computer in, where to find parts and supplies, how to obtain repairs, and more. Living costs, health issues, and addresses and fax numbers for important services are updated. Guidance is offered on currency, transportation, communications, bringing children into China, and other issues. Based on the first-hand reports of hundreds of academic visitors to China and original research by the authors, this book will be useful to anyone planning to live and work in China: students, researchers, and teachers and their visiting family members, as well as business professionals. Table of Contents <ul>
<li>Front Matter</li>
<li>1. Research, Study, and Teaching in China</li>
<li>2. Preparing for the Trip</li>
<li>3. Settling In</li>
<li>4. Research</li>
<li>5. Teaching</li>
<li>6. Study</li>
<li>7. Services Available</li>
<li>8. Leaving China</li>
<li>Glossary of Chinese Terms</li>
<li>Appendix A: Funding for Graduate and Postdoctoral Research in China</li>
<li>Appendix B: Language Study Programs in the People's Republic of China</li>
<li>Appendix C: Colleges and Universities Accepting Direct Application from Foreign Students</li>
<li>Appendix D: General Guidelines for Direct Application to a Chinese College or University as a Self-Sponsored Student and Excerpts from 'Regulations Concerning the Admission of Foreign Students in Chinese Schools'</li>
<li>Appendix E: Visa Application for Foreigners Wishing to Study in China</li>
<li>Appendix F: The People's Republic of China Visa Application Form</li>
<li>Appendix G: Physical Examination Record for Foreigners</li>
<li>Appendix H: Organizations Sponsoring English Teachers in China</li>
<li>Appendix I: Application for Teaching Positions in China</li>
<li>Appendix J: Sample Contract for Teachers</li>
<li>Appendix K: American Express Emergency Check Cashing Locations</li>
<li>Appendix L: Approximate Costs of Hotel Rooms, Food, Internal Travel, Services, Clothing, and Medical Care, Fall 1993</li>
<li>Appendix M: Selected Reading List and References</li>
<li>Appendix N: Trial Procedures for Foreign Organizations and Individuals to Use Chinese Archives</li>
<li>Appendix O: Packing it in: Preparing for Fieldwork in the PRC</li>
<li>Appendix P: Student Advisory Resource Centers and General Reference Holdings</li>
<li>Protocol Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the People's Republic of China for Cooperation in Educational Exchanges</li>
<li>Index</li>
</ul>

China Bound, Revised: A Guide to Academic Life and Work in the PRC (Cscprc Report)

Science & Math

National Academy Of Sciences

Social Science Research Council

American Council of Learned Societies

Committee on Scholarly Communication with China

Reed, Linda A.

Turner-Gottschang, Karen

Thurston, Anne F.

Biological Sciences

National Academies Press

The Social Sciences And Fieldwork In China: Views From The Field

Pasternak, Burton

Reference

Routledge

Enemies of the People: The Ordeal of the Intellectuals in China's Great Cultural Revolution

History

Americas

Harvard University Press

Follows the life of Ni Yuxian, an influential Chinese dissident, who has waged repeated battles against Chinese political corruption

A Chinese Odyssey: The Life and Times of a Chinese Dissident

Asia

Scribner

Book by Thurston, Anne F. And Burton Pasternak (Ed. )

Westview Press

In December 2010 residents of Kalimpong, a town on the Indian border with Tibet, turned out en masse to welcome the Dalai Lama. It was only then they realized for the first time that the neighbor they knew as the noodle maker of Kalimpong was also the Dalai Lama's older brother. The Tibetan spiritual leader had come to visit the Gaden Tharpa Choling monastery and join his brother for lunch in the family compound.Gyalo Thondup has long lived out of the spotlight and hidden from view, but his whole life has been dedicated to the cause of his younger brother and Tibet. He served for decades as the Dalai Lama's special envoy, the trusted interlocutor between Tibet and foreign leaders from Chiang Kai-shek to Jawaharlal Nehru, Zhou Enlai to Deng Xiaoping. Traveling the globe and meeting behind closed doors, Thondup has been an important witness to some of the epochal events of the twentieth century. No one has a better grasp of the ongoing great game as the divergent interests of China, India, Russia, and the United States continue to play themselves out over the Tibetan plateau. Only the Dalai Lama himself has played a more important role in the political history of modern, tragedy-ridden Tibet. Indeed, the Dalai Lama's dramatic escape from Lhasa to exile in India would not have been possible without his brother's behind-the-scenes help. Now, together with Anne F. Thurston, who cowrote the international bestseller The Private Life of Chairman Mao, Gyalo Thondup is finally telling his story.The settings are exotic--the Tibetan province of Amdo where the two brothers spent their early childhood; Tibet's legendary capital of Lhasa; Nanjing, where Thondup received a Chinese education; Taiwan, where he fled when he could not return to Tibet; Calcutta, Delhi, and the Himalayan hill towns of India, where he finally made his home; Hong Kong, which served as his listening post for China, and the American Rockies, where he sent young Tibetan resistance fighters to be trained clandestinely by the CIA. But Thondup's story does not reiterate the otherworldly, Shangri-La vision of the Land of Snows so often portrayed in the West. Instead, it is an intimate, personal look at the Dalai Lama and his immediate family and an inside view of vicious and sometimes deadly power struggles within the Potala Palace--that immensely imposing architectural wonder that looms over Lhasa and is home to both the spiritual and secular seats of Tibetan power.

The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong Lib/E: The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet

Biographies & Memoirs

Thondup, Gyalo

Community & Culture

Blackstone Publishing

[Read by Lane Nishikawa and Bernadette Dunne]Gyalo Thondup has long lived out of the spotlight, but his whole life has been dedicated to the cause of his younger brother and Tibet. He served for decades as the Dalai Lama's special envoy, the trusted interlocutor between Tibet and foreign leaders from Chiang Kaishek to Jawaharlal Nehru, Zhou Enlai to Deng Xiaoping. Traveling the globe and meeting behind closed doors, Thondup has been an important witness to some of the epochal events of the twentieth century. In fact, only the Dalai Lama himself has played a more important role in the political history of modern, tragedyridden Tibet. Now, with Anne F. Thurston, Gyalo Thondup is finally telling his story.

The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet

Blackstone Audiobooks

Shortly before midnight on March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama, without his glasses and dressed as an ordinary Tibetan solider, slipped out of his summer residence with only four aides at his side. At that moment, he became the symbolic head of the Tibetan government in exile, and Gyalo Thondup, the only one of the Dalai Lama's brothers not to don the robes of a Buddhist monk, became the fulcrum for the independence movement. The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong tells the extraordinary story of the Dalai Lama's family, the exile of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism from Tibet, and the enduring political crisis that has seen remote and bleakly beautiful Tibet all but disappear as an independent nation-state. For the last sixty years, Gyalo Thondup has been at the at the heart of the epic struggle to protect and advance Tibet in the face of unreliable allies, overwhelming odds, and devious rivals, playing an utterly determined and unique role in a Cold War high-altitude superpower rivalry. Here, for the first time, he reveals how he found himself whisked between Chiang Kai-shek, Zhou Enlai, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the CIA, as he tried to secure, on behalf of his brother, the future of Tibet.

PublicAffairs

For over half a century, noodlemaker Gyalo Thondup has been a familiar figure in the Himalayan hill town of Kalimpong. But it was not until 2010 that the townsfolk discovered his true identity: Gyalo Thondup is none other than the older brother of the Dalai Lama and his special envoy, a trusted interlocutor between Tibet and foreign leaders from Chiang Kai-shek to Jawaharlal Nehru, Zhou Enlai to Deng Xiaoping. Indeed, only the Dalai Lama himself has played a more important role in the political history of modern, tragedy-ridden Tibet.\nNow, for the first time, Gyalo Thondup is prepared to tell his story. His remarkable account offers an intimate, personal look at the Dalai Lama and his immediate family, as well as an insider's view of the vicious and sometimes deadly struggles within the Potala Palace - the seat of power in Tibet. His is a story of the 'real' Tibet - a country that is secular as well as sacred, where the source of conflict is not just with China but between Tibetans themselves. Candid and insightful, this long-awaited account reveals Gyalo Thondup to have been a key figure in the great game played out by China, India, Russia and the United States over the strategically important Tibetan plateau.

The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: My Untold Story of the Struggle for Tibet

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