THESE PEOPLE MATTER:These people make my stay in China possible. Update 6.7.14

I met Jane Zhang and her husband Fong Jun for lunch on the 21st.  Jane is the next exchange faculty from SJTU, and the first who is going to come to Highline College (without the Middle C.)

Fong Jun will come with Jane to Highline in the fall.   They will bring their four-year-old .

June 6,  I had dinner with Chen Yongjie and his wife.  Chen Yongjie was the very first  exchange faculty from SJTU back in 1998-99.   It was good to see him.   He was the same as I remember, quiet, unassuming, but warm and friendly.  His wife, who doesn't speak English, radiates warmth and comfort. I had forgotten that she spent three months with him while he was at Highline. At that time he was an administrator at SJTU.  

 Recognize James Zheng?  and Ding Yaping?    and Vincent.    James and Vincent were trying to outdrink each other, but James kept trying to give the girls some of his Baiju.

 Here are our hosts:   He Yan and her husband Vincent.   It was a Children's Day that was drowning in a torrential downpour. We met at He Yan's and she and her husband took us all to dinner in the suburbs.

Thank you, Vincent and He Yan.

Hu Wenjie and his wife Jingjie (Ginger) took me to lunch on Dragon Boat race weekend..   I had a wonderful time eating and talking.   Jingjie spent a year in Liverpool the year after Winjie  returned from HCC last year. 

 Six Highline Alumni Exchange Faculty bought us dinner!

  In the back from the left:  Hu Wenjie; He Yan; Ding Yaping; Wang Shenying; Lisa He; Wu Fanglin.   In the front, Meg Ryan, Jack Bermingham, and me.

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 On May 12  Dean Hu Kaibao invited me to dinner with Highline College President Jack Bermingham; Assistant Dean Tao Qing, who has been most helpful to me while I've been in Shanghai; his assistant, LiYi (Kevin); and Meg Ryan, Director Center of Excellence for Global Trade & Supply Chain Management at Highline College.

 Tao Qing; Dean Hu; Meg Ryan; Jack Bermingham, and me.   Kevin is shooting the picture.

President Bermingham and Dean Hu.

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 May10, a really sweet graduate student named Daring (her Engish name) took me to the China Pavilion.   Thank you Daring.   Here she is.

 May10, a really sweet graduate student named Daring (her English name) took me to the China Pavilion.   Thank you Daring.   Here she is.
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These people make my stay in China possible.   LiYi (Kevin) is the official contact from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.  You see him here on the right.  On the left is Ding Yaping, the unofficial guide and virtual hand-holder for all of us who knew her when she visited Highline. She has repaid whatever hospitality we gave her a thousand fold.  

This photo will remain small because Xiao Ding hates it.

Here are the four lovely ladies who came to HCC one after the other: from bottom left,  Xiahong (2001-2); Xiaoling (2003-4), upper left, HeYan (2002-3); Ding Yaping (2000-2001)

The 4 Musketeers invite me to lunch.  Here they are again: in front is Zhao Xiaohong, who paid for lunch (thank you,  Xiaohong) and behind her is He Yan, then Yang Xiaoling, and Ding Yaping.  Lunch was great, and the company even better.  They made me feel like one of the girls.

Here is Yang Xiaoling's husband James Zheng.  Some of you may remember Yang Xiaoling from her stay at Highline during the 2003 to 2004 academic year.   Some of you may have met James, too, for he was a visiting scholar during her stay at Highline, and he visited our campus a couple of times.     James has free time during the week but also works in business; on Saturday he teaches in the MBA school from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. He says that he loves teaching.  Indeed!

As you can tell, he has a bubbly, engaging personality.

James and Yaping at the Faculty Club buffet lunch.

Here are Zhang Weidong, Wang Shenying (2006-7) and their son Henry (who was about 14 or15 when he visited HCC)

 This great family took me to Zhujiajao, a local Water Town.  Look for some photos soon.  We spent a great Sunday at Zhujiajao. This photo was taken at a famous garden in Zhujiajao called Kezhi Garden.