Preliminary China Schedule

Fri, June 2 -- Arrive, explore Wanfujing.

Sat, June 3 -- Dirt Market/Pearl Market -- departure after breakfast aprox 10AM

Sat, June 3 -- Meeting/dinner with about 6 Beida students, followed by nearby student disco with Chinese students

Sun, June 4 -- Free day. Yes - I'd like the students to explore the parks. They are packed with families, old people, little kids on the weekends...

Sun, June 4 -- Dinner meeting with Counselor Xu & Mrs

Mon, June 5 -9 Great Wall, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Parks, Dagoba Temple

Tuesday, June 6 -- Dinner meeting with Mr. B. BayambasaikhanAsian Development Bank, and CEO of Creative Development Strategies, a Mongolian entrepreneurial company; venue TBD-- Also trying to invite Bill Bikales, World Bank economist now working in China, formerly worked in UB as Econ Advisor to PM under USAID contract

China Readings
Mongolian Field Studies 2006


Bulag, Uradyne E. Models and Morality: The Parable of the “Little Heroic Sisters of the Grassland” in The Mongols at Chinas Edge: History and Politics of National Unity 2002 pg 183-205 DS 793.M7 B95 2002


Grayling, AC & Whitfiled, Susan. Points of Entry: Peking and Shanghai in A Literary Companion: China 1994 pg 9-31 DS 712 G73 1994


Gunde, Richard. Architecture and Housing in Culture and Customs of China 2002 pg 141-163


Ho, Peter. Mao’s War against Nature? The Environmental Impact of the Grain First Campaign in China. in The China Journal July 2003 pg 37-59


Agence France Press. 70 Percent of Beijing’s Rivers Fail to Meet Water Safety Standards. February 14, 2006 EBSCO

South China Morning Post. Experts Warn China’s Water Supply May Well Run Dry. November 22, 2005 pg 19 EBSCO

Waldron, Arthur. The Great Wall of China 1990 pg 1-10 & 194-226 DS 793.G67 W25 1990

Peck, Graham. Through China’s Wall 1940 PG 10-27 DS 710 P36

Johnson, Reginald. Twilight in the Forbidden City 1955 pg 168-179 DS 774.J6 1955X

Wichmann, Elizabeth. Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Beijing Opera Performance in TDR 1988 pg 146-178 JSTOR

Read, Benjamin. Democratizing in the Neighborhood? New Private Housing and Home-Owner Self Organization in Urban China. in The China Journal. Jan 2003 pg 31-59 JSTOR