Group IX
The Different Faces of China
"The Different Faces of China," Group IX's international
seminar, took place April 3-18, 2002. Participants, as well as 15
alumni and board members, landed in Seoul, Korea on April 5, flew
to Beijing, rode a train to Shanghai, flew to Xian, and finally landed
in Hong Kong in what turned out to be an educational experience of
a life time. Ayse Somersan, Seminar Chair, and former Dean of UW-Cooperative
Extension, challenged the group to meet the following seminar objectives:
- To gain new perspectives on major issues facing societies and
to better understand economic, political, cultural, and social
structures within a local, state, regional, national, and global
context.
- To better understand alternative or contrasting economic, political,
cultural, and social systems and their impact on such things as
education, economic development, health care, natural resource
management and leadership development within a local, state, regional,
national, and global context.
- To meet and to know people from other countries and regions so
that our leaders can better understand similarities and differences
between people of different cultures and systems.
- To gain a better appreciation of the difficulties and possibilities
of solving societal problems in different resource situations and
within the context of different economic, political, cultural and
social systems.
Take a slide show through
South Korea and China.
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