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McDaniel and Chinese students find common ground on study tour
August 17, 2011
Traveling to China with History professor Qin Fang funded by an ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Fellows Program grant, five McDaniel students studied tiehua, the art of making pictures of hammered iron, while interacting with the Chinese college students.
Language and cultural barriers evaporated when U.S. and Chinese students met their counterparts in Wuhu, China, about a three-hour drive from Shanghai. Although the Chinese students spoke English quite well and the McDaniel students spoke only isolated phrases in Chinese, together they interviewed passersby about the tiehua art that is unique to Wuhu, and they learned the differences and similarities of college in China and the U.S
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