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- Title: Predestined Relation (Yuan): The Passionate and the Helpless of Chinese Communication (Report)
- Author : China Media Research
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 220 KB
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Story 1: Three years ago, Professor Vladimir Manakin, a Ukrainian Fulbrighter, came to UIC. Given our similar interests in intercultural communication, I became his academic host. I still recall the first day I saw him, along with his wife, Professor Natasha Manakin, and their daughter Olena, right in front of my office even before I arrived. He sat in on my classes and shared many thoughts and ideas with "our" students. I also got to know about Ukraine, a country with which I had not had much previous acquaintanceship, yet one which turned out to be so close to my research in language and politics. I thought I'd try to apply for a Fulbright to Ukraine--it'd be fun for us to reverse our roles and start another chapter of learning and witnessing the richness of cultures. I arrived at his office in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, on September 7, 2010. I could not believe this had happened, yet there I was, right in his department, in Ukraine, three years after our encounter in Chicago. This time, he was my academic host and I was the Fulbright scholar! There was that sense of familiarity--it seemed as if I didn't just know Vladimir and his wife, but many of his colleagues there. If this were not yuan, how else would I be able to explain such an encounter with these people? If not for the interconnected universe facilitating the flow of yuan in years past, how could I have arrived in Ukraine at this time?