A Surprising Twist of Fate:John Hawkins' First Trip to China Half a Century Ago
Xun Yuan--Institute of Higher Education,East China Normal University�� Liao Xuehong--Graduate School of Education & Information Studies,University of California,Los Angeles�� Ren Youqun--School of Educational Science,East China Normal University
Abstract In August 1966, John Hawkins, an undergraduate at the East-West Center in Hawaii University got a very occasional opportunity to visit China. He not only had conversations with some Great leaders of China government, but gave a speech on China Revolution to Chinese audiences in the Great Hall of the People. He also experienced the Cultural Revolution which had begun three months before he arrived. What he saw and heart in Guangzhou, Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai impressed him so deeply that since then, he got a tight relationship with China and Chinese people.
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