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Extracurricular
Activities, Excursions and Tours
Programme
Duration
From 2-7 July, 2011, CUHK and Brown students will participate in a 6-day
fieldtrip to Beijing. While at Brown, all students will take weekend excursions
to New York City and Boston.
At Brown, participants
will work at the Greene Farm Archaeology Project in Rhode Island; work
with oral history interviews in the diverse Fox Point neighborhood of
Providence and explore local resources such as the Rhode Island School
of Design Museum, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Plimoth Plantation.
Excursions
to Boston and New York
Boston
is an historically well-preserved city and students will explore
the African American Heritage Trail and Freedom Trail, along with
a private tour of the new American wing on the Museum of Fine Arts.
In New York City, the focus will be on "ethnic heritage"
and exploring the preservation of some of the US's larger ethnic
groups and how they preserve their cultures within wider American
Society. Students will visit the Lower East Side Tenement Museum,
the Eldridge Street synagogue and the Museum of Chinese in America.
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6-Day
Excursion Tour to Beijing
Date: 2-7 July, 2010 (Students will leave Beijing on 7 July, 2011)
Participants: All 20 students from CUHK and Brown University
Tour Leader: Professor Jenny So, Programme Director, Brown-CUHK
Summer Institute
As an extension activity
of the Programme, the 6-day Beijing trip will allow students to
immerse in an ancient culture by applying and reflecting on what
they have learnt from their 4-week stay at The Chinese University
of Hong Kong.
As an integral part
of the students' experience of one of the world's oldest cultures,
students will sample typical Chinese cuisines e.g. dumplings, Peking
duck, Mongolian hotpot, etc.
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Mandatory
excursions (Two days)
Tiananmen Square and vicinity:
The world's largest city
square and enduring symbol of China's national pride, surrounded by heritage
buildings including the Forbidden City, Chairman Mao's Mausoleum, Liulichang
(antique row), traditional hutongs (residential alley ways) and
newly revitalized districts of old Beijing.
798 Art Zone
Beijing 798 Art Zone, named
after the 798 factory built in 1950s, is located in the northeast corner
of Beijing city. Referred to as Mainland China's Greenwich Village or
SoHo, 798 Art Zone has become one of the trendiest landmarks in Beijing
housing a thriving community of local and foreign artists who are there
to create and display their works in unique galleries, studios and exhibition
spaces.
Students will be led behind-the-scenes
by conservation specialists at specified locations and be able to meet
artists in their studios.
Optional
tours (One Day)
a. China and its neighbours
- The Great Wall of China at Mutianyu
b. Contemporary Beijing Architecture - avante-garde structures built for
the Beijing Olympics ("Birds' Nest", "Egg", etc.)
c. Beijing Universities - Peking University, Tsinghua University, etc.
Independent
Exploration (1.5 Days)
Students will be given
maps and other kits to help them navigate their own way through the intriguing
mazes in Beijing.
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