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The author has been teaching in Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan Province since 2000. He first taught at Sichuan University but this summer he moved to the South West University for Chine National Minorities. He had previously taught in China during 1992-94. Patrick had the pleasure of meeting SACU members Derek Bryan and Hong Ying in Chengdu during one of their periodic visits to China and he joined SACU on a return visit to the UK in 1994.
It's nearly 8.20 on a warm May morning. The cond year students are arriving for their first class of the day: English oral/conversation. I sit at the front waiting. Judy arrives; she is always one of the last. We smile a greeting and I notice that she is wearing 'hot pants' and a backless top. She also has a necklace and dangly earrings. I find mylf thinking about the changes that have taken place in Chine students' ideas and lifestyles in a little over ten years.
I first came to China to teach English in 1992. I was the reprentative of British Quakers and part of my task was to maintain the link with the West China University of Medical Sciences, which had begun with the founding of a university in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province. The original name of the university was the West China Union University and it had been established by five missionary societies from Canada, the USA and Britain. British Quakers were one of the societies. It was at that University that Derek Bryan and Hong Ying, co-founders of SACU, met and married. 蜡笔英语怎么说
I taught for two years students who were studying English as their major, returning to the UK in 1994. I returned in 2000. At that time the Medical University merged with the larger Sichuan University into an enormous institution with over 70,000 students on three campus. What changes have struck me most forcibly about my students in the period between 1992 and 2005? What follows is inevitably anecdotal and impressionistic but I believe can give some insight into the difficulties and challenges facing China's most educated young people today.
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I have alluded to dress and jewellery. Students are increasingly conscious of what they wear and spend money on what is considered the latest fashion. Hair styles are changed as is hair colour: curls created, or straightened, and any colour as long as it's not black It ems the busiest business on and outside campus are the hairdressing salons. Boys are just as susceptible to the urge to be fashionable and pierced ears are becoming more common to complement the latest weird hairdo (I am reflecting my age in that comment).It is probably true to say that the creative arts students are the most adventurous, 'way out' in their dress and hair styles.
By the time students have reached their cond year ownership of a mobile phone has become the norm. Text messaging appears to be all-consuming passion. I have to remind my students to switch off so that class can continue uninterrupted. Even so I notice surreptitious fingers working away below the desk.
Computers are increasingly ud. Net bars flourish. As students move through their undergraduate life more and more become owners of a computer. The Internet, chat roo
ms, email are normal parts of daily activity. Internet connections are available in student dormitories although it is not easy to access international sites unless the student knows all about what, I am told, are proxy rvers! Another very important u of the dormitory computer is to watch the latest DVDs pirated from the west. I have learned far more about films -sorry movies - and film stars in the last few years than in the previous 55 of my life.
So what is this telling us about Chine young people today? They are very aware of western popular culture and are happy to follow it. To that extent they are more willing to express their individuality even though paradoxically they are following a kind of herd instinct to ape the west. I do not believe the individualism is a new phenomenon. In the early 1990s in conversation students often showed they had thought deeply and were not prepared to accept unthinkingly any insistence on a 'group line'. However now they are prepared to be more open in their behaviour. They are more ready to be critical of the official line but, and this is a theme I shall be developing, the first concern is themlves.
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Their attitude to relationships with the opposite gender has become almost unbelievably more open. In the early 1990s couples were rarely if ever en holding hands. Nowadays you e that and more at all times of day and evening all over the campus. Younger students become very concerned if they don't have a boy or girlfriend. Some students in their fourth year rent accommodation off campus and partners live together. This is 'not allowed' officially but the authorities do not feel cure enough to challenge this behaviour.
Recently in a Chine colleague's class a cond year student decided to give her power point prentation on the topic of contraception. The teacher felt able to allow this and then encouraged small group discussions on the topic of premarital x. I learned of one group where the young man vigorously defended his belief that he expected his wife to be a virgin but did not accept that he should be one when he married. He encountered some lively opposition from the young ladies in his group. This openness would not have been possible even three or four years ago. Indeed it probably would have resulted in dismissal of the teacher. Students discovered in compromising situations would have bee
n expelled.
