Yale-China Association Biennial Report
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Biennial Report 2003-2005 Yale-China Association For more than a century, the Yale-China Association has promoted understanding between Chinese and American people through the medium of education. Our programs in health, law, English language instruction, American Studies, and community and public service bring life-changing experiences to thousands of people each year. Teaching and learning are the heart of our work. Yale-China believes that individuals–and individual organizations–can be a force for making the world more peaceful and humane. Our work is based on the conviction that sustained, one-on-one contacts between Chinese and American people not only enrich the lives of the individuals involved but contribute, ultimately, to improved relations between our two nations. Some of the highlights of our work during 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 include: Expanding the Yale-China HIV/AIDS Train-the-Trainer program to Xinjiang, Guang- dong, and Sichuan provinces by organizing workshops that provided direct training for more than 200 nurses. They in turn taught other health care workers in their regions, bringing the total number trained through the program to more than 30,000. Continuing to respond to the SARS crisis and other emerging diseases with new work in infection control. Yale-China collaborated with the Nursing Center of China to translate and adapt for Chinese use an infection control manual originally developed by Yale University. The manual, which is particularly suited to addressing unidentified, newly emerging diseases, has been printed and distributed across China and is available at no cost on Yale-China’s website. Building capacity in Chinese law schools by helping to develop legal aid clinics. Yale-China’s Legal Education Fellowship Program gave 278 Chinese law students the opportunity to take classes taught by bilingual American attorneys who helped to guide them as they took on their first cases and projects in their schools’ clinics. Providing 530 scholarships to Chinese students from disadvantaged backgrounds at the Xiangya School of Medicine, making it possible for them to finish their studies despite the rising cost of higher education in China. Encouraging the expression of service by a new generation of Chinese and American young people through a rich array of internships at Chinese and American non-profit social service organizations. Broadening the horizons of more than 1,000 secondary and university students in China through English classes taught by Yale-China Teaching Fellows. Laying the groundwork for a new site for the English Teaching Fellowship Program at Xiuning Middle School in rural Anhui province, a place largely left behind in the developmental gold rush sweeping China’s coastal areas and big cities. Inspiring Chinese and Americans through education since 1901 www.yalechina.org INSIDE 4 Welcome 6 Health Program 10 Teaching Program 14 Law Program 18 Student Programs 24 Financial Report 26 Contributors 29 Officers, Trustees & Staff 30 Programs by Site 31 About Yale-China On the front cover: Detail of a scroll painting presented to the Yale-China Association by New Asia College in June 2004 to celebrate 50 years of friendship between New Asia and Yale-China. This page: A dragon parade in Changsha, circa 1916. The roof of the Xiangya Hospital, founded by Yale-China, appears in the background. Welcome It is with great pleasure that we present to you this report on the work of the Yale-China Association during the 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 program years. As you will see in the pages that follow, this has been a creative and productive period for the organization. We are proud of the accomplishments made during this time, and grateful to our supporters and program partners for helping to make them possible. At a time when China is ever more visible in the world, Yale-China works to meet a critical need for in-depth education and nuanced cross-cultural interaction. China’s own dynamism has created new opportunities for the Association, and in response we have expanded our staff and are increasing our financial resources. What makes it all worthwhile are the ways in which Yale-China continues to make a deep and lasting impact on individual lives. In programs ranging from healthcare and law to English teaching and undergraduate internships, we have seen over and over again how Yale-China challenges conventional thinking about our respective cultures, and how it helps to prepare the next generation for leadership roles in Chinese and American society. In reflecting on Yale-China’s century-long history, it is clear that our finest moments as an organization have been those times when we have achieved, together with our Chinese colleagues, a partnership of equals working toward common goals. Numerous examples of fruitful collaborations could be cited from across the span of our history: it was true in our earliest years, when Edward Hume, Yan Fuqing, and other American and Chinese doctors and nurses established the Xiangya Medical College and Hospital in Changsha; it was true in the 1930s, when C.C. Lao, Frances Hutchins, Ying Kaishi, and others developed the Yali Middle School into a vibrant, wholly Chinese-run institution; and it was true of Harry Rudin, Qian Mu, and their colleagues in the 1950s, who together envisioned New Asia College as an institution that would embody both Confucian and Western humanitarian values. The spirit of these partnerships continues to animate Yale-China’s work today as we build sustained, long-term collaborations with our Chinese colleagues. In our nursing and public health work, for example, our close collaboration with colleagues at the Nursing Center of the Chinese Ministry of Health not only allowed us to expand our HIV/AIDS train-the-trainer program to four additional provinces, but also enabled us later to respond productively to the SARS crisis. In two separate endeavors described in the following pages, we were able to collaborate with the Nursing Center to provide information to thousands of health care professionals across China about how to respond to new and emerging diseases. 4 WELCOME At left, Nancy Chapman with Professor Lu Guangxiu at Xiangya School of Medicine’s 90th anniversary celebration in 2004. At right, Terrill Lautz with a Yale-China scholarship recipient in Changsha in 2003. The success of this partnership is captured in a letter we received from Ms. Gong Yuxiu, director of the Nursing Center, which is excerpted on page 9 of this report. Similarly, Yale-China’s Legal Education Fellowship Program has played a unique role in the broader rule of law movement in China by building on our relationships with Chinese legal scholars and educators. By working side-by-side with Chinese law schools to share strategies, expand knowledge of U.S. and international legal practices and standards, and help pioneer the field of clinical legal education, we and our Chinese colleagues are strengthening the training of China’s legal community and helping to shape the future direction of Chinese legal reform. Collaborations like these, which build on past successes, have increasingly come to characterize Yale-China’s program work in recent years, enabling us to deliver high quality, effective programs designed to meet specific needs on the ground in China. Whether through a fellowship to a young American lawyer to teach international law to Chinese students, a team internship that allows Chinese and American students to work side-by-side at a U.S. or Chinese social service organization, or a scholarship that permits a Chinese medical student to finish his education, Yale-China’s programs create sustained, thoughtful, one-on-one contacts between Americans and Chinese that often help to shape their lives. We firmly believe that these encounters, when taken together, help to improve relations between our two countries in both the short and long term. Looking to the future, we have a number of promising new initiatives in development, and look forward to reporting on these endeavors in the coming year. As ever, we remain deeply grateful for the support of our many donors, collaborators, alumni, and friends. Sincerely, Chair, Board of Trustees Executive Director YALE-CHINA ASSOCIATION 5 Health Program Yale-China has been at the forefront unidentified, newly emerginginfectious more than 30,000 Chinese health of health education in China since the diseases. The manual seeks to provide care workers to address the needs early years of the 20th century, when standard infection containment and of patients and help stem the further we founded medical institutions in prevention procedures to Chinese spread of the epidemic. The program, Hunan province that today remain health care workers and has wide which is conducted almost entirely in major centers of medical education application in both health care and Chinese by Chinese trainers, expanded and care. In the 2003-2005 period, research settings. Nursing Center in 2003 to include three week-long our health work extended across Director Gong Yuxiu praised the man- training sessions in Chengdu, Guangzhou, China and focused on areas of special ual as a valuable resource that fills a and Urumqi. Though most of the relevance to new and emerging gap in the Chinese health care system. participants lived in the provinces diseases–infection control, occupational It has been distributed throughout where the training was conducted, exposure to infectious disease, and the China and is also available on Yale- some were motivated to travel from training of health care workers. China’s website free of charge. other areas, including Anhui, Guangxi, Heilongjiang, and Yunnan provinces, When we last reported on our Health The SARS experience had many due to the severe lack of HIV/AIDS Program in the pages of a biennial implications beyond the immediate training opportunities in their regions.