A Tale of Two Capitals: A Comparative Study of Development in Beijing and Ulaanbaatar
Principal Investigator: Mien-hwa Chiang, Director, Chinese Language Program; Senior Lecturer in Foreign Languages
Co-Principal Investigators: Melissa DiFrancesco, Associate Director, Center for East Asian Studies; David Dettmann, U.S. Director, American Center Mongolian Studies (ACMS)
Lead School: School of Arts and Sciences, Center for East Asian Studies
Penn Partners: School of Arts and Sciences, American Center for Mongolian Studies
Chinese Partners: Inter-University Program (IUP) for Chinese Language Studies; Peking University
The Chinese Language Program (CLP) at the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, the American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS), and the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) jointly propose “A Tale of Two Capitals: A Comparative Study of Development in Beijing and Ulaanbaatar,” a one-year project offering an 18-day short-term study abroad program in Beijing, China and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. A Tale of Two Capitals will provide ten student fellowships for Penn students to continue learning and developing Chinese speaking skills and literacy. In addition to language enhancement, students will gain cultural exposure to Beijing and Ulaanbaatar, using a comparative research method to study the development of the two rapidly changing capitals of China and Mongolia.