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About the Author: Marianne Craven serves as Managing Director of Academic Programs in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA).
Last month, I traveled to Beijing and Xi’an with Matt McMahon, the Fulbright Chief for East Asia. It was the first time I had been to China, and I was excited to see firsthand Fulbright and other Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs exchange programs at work. Overall, we shared an informative and enlightening week with insightful and generous hosts, and we’re proud of the work that ECA and its program participants are doing there.
We arrived in a snowy Beijing and met with officials from the Chinese Ministry of Education and later representatives from Hanban, a Teachers of Critical Languages Program partner. With the upcoming Consultation… more »
