Legends of China - The Silk Road to the Future
Contact Information
Email: thesilkroadtothefuture@yahoo.com
Web: www.legendsofchina.com
Application Information
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Registration deadline: May 1, 2010
Coordinator: Craig Harmelin <charmelin@ucmerced.edu>
Program Information
The Silk Road to the Future is sponsored by Legends of China and is a celebration of international friendship and goodwill between college students from prestigious universities across the United States and China. Started in 2001, The Silk Road to the Future tour is offered every summer and concluded the first phase in 2008 when Beijing hosted the world community for the first Olympic Games held in China. Summer 2009 begins the second phase of The Silk Road to the Future, which will focus on the effects of globalization on higher education.
The central theme of The Silk Road to the Future is, of course, silk. This event draws its theme from the ancient Silk Road trade route that facilitated early cultural communication between China and Europe nearly 2000 years ago. Your participation symbolizes the “weaving together of modern cultural threads” into a beautiful fabric of unity that will bond the two nations during the coming millennium. During the first phase, students in The Silk Road to the Future tour, both Chinese and American, produced a silk artwork focusing on World Peace that, when sewn together, will form a banner stretching over 10,000 meters. Beginning in 2009, the program will now stretch beyond China to achieve a new global significance by setting a new banner-length goal of 40,076 silk pieces.
Founded in 1996, Legends of China’s goal is to establish strong relationships and opportunities for U.S. and Chinese educators, artists and environmentalists. To date, it has hosted hundreds of renowned educators, artists and students from both countries. In the future, it will host thousands more as it continues to create new bridges for greater cooperation and understanding between the two nations through increased cultural exchange and understanding.
Highlights of 2010 Program
- Splendid Silk Road 10 Year Anniversary Celebration (Capital Museum)
- Future Leader Forum: Better City, Better Life (Qinhua University)
- World Expo 2010 Shanghai China
- International Internship Opportunities (offered by City of Beijing and Nanjing Science Parks)
- International Teamwork Projects: Better City, Better Life (one on one for U.S. and Chinese students)
- Meeting your counterparts, visiting top universities
- Exclusive educational and cultural exchange programs (daily topics, seminars, etc)
- Historcial sites: Great Wall, Forbidden City, and... a lot more!
Keynote Speaker, 2010
