Author: Chai Laoshi

    December 22, 2024  字圆其说 x 乐开书店 Workshop   A workshop was hosted during the exhibition in the Lekai Bookstore.  With the approaching of the Chinese New Year, the workshop on creative Chinese characters unclocked a new playbook. The freshly ready The Book of the Answers does not only provides explanations of the designs…

  October 24, 2024 The 1st Symposium on Calligraphy Education for International Students of Higher Education  Conference Presentation   Jing CHAI was invited to present at the symposium on calligraphy education to international students of higher education in Shanghai Jiaotong University. She presented on the theme of Chinese Character Pedagogy in the Lens of Multimodal…

    December 9, 2024 – January 8, 2025 字圆其说 x 乐开书店 Interactive Exhibition   Lekai Bookstore is a Shanghai local independent bookstore with two branches.  This joint exhibition by Lekai Bookstore and the I Got One project reimagines the possibilities of Chinese characters through through imaginative and multifaceted perspectives. It features the book series…

November 24, 2024 字圆其说 x 梧桐书屋读书会 Intercultural Salon   Wutong Shuwu Bookclub is an independent bookclub that provides its members opportunities to elevate reading skills and social skills in a unique peer-mentor mode.  A group of 20+ NYU Shanghai international students with intermediate to advanced proficiency in Chinese, together with 20+ members of this bookclub,…

    November 8 & 17, 2024 字圆其说 x 东明百家姓 – 第三、 第四场 Invited Community Workshop   In the third and fourth Dongming Community Workshop, our experienced community partners took the role of mentors, leading the new joiners for a total immersion of the I Got One experience.  Inspired by the creative perspectives on Chinese…

October 27, 2024 字圆其说 x 东明百家姓 – 第二场 Invited Community Workshop   In the second Dongming Community Workshop, we had 28 NYU Shanghai students pairing up with 30+ local families and went on a journey of creativity and intercultural exchange.  The workshop exercised on the Reciporical Principal for Community Engagement Learning, which is one of…

October 13, 2024 字圆其说 x 东明百家姓 – 第一场 Invited Community Workshop   In this Fall 2024, the collaboration between the Dongming Community and I Got One project leveled up to a series of workshops themed around family, creativity, intercultural communications and culture heretage.  In the first workshop, 20+ community partners from a wide range of…

  September 11, 2024 Middlesex University Conference on Transnational Education  Conference Presentation   Jing CHAI is invited to present her research titled From Characters to Community: Fostering Student Engagement through Innovative Chinese Language Learning in Transnational Education.    The talk ignited curiosity from the fellow educators as how NYUAD and NYUSH leverage their global network…