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Show Wednesday, February 10. 1993 The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Twelve Three students adventure in China This Liberal Ed Course Means Business Foundations of Business Thought Management BY JUSTIN PETERSON Chronicle Feature Writer Despite composing over one billion of the world's population, China remains an enigma. Reasons for this abound. China's historical isolationist stance, the traditional communication barriers and, the Communist imposed bamboo curtain all contribute to the mist of China remains obscurity shrouded in. As one of three University of 101-- 1 3 hours credit Utah students with a shared interest in any and all things Chinese, two friends and I set M,W&F 8:50 a.m. to 9:40 a.m. MHG Hall out in August of '92 to penetrate the veil, to satiate our curiosity, and to experience the Middle Kingdom. My travelling companions, Dick Corey and Mike Waterman, felt the same as I in terms of how we wanted to see China. From the beginning ours was a quest Some of the most simple concepts of business took hundreds of years to develop. Great thinkers and philosophers debated them. Families, countries and kings warred over them. Artists, writer and musicians portrayed them. And now you can study them. This course will take you on a trip through ancient and modern times to discover the roots of modern business, spending the majority of time on how business fundamentals are applied today. to stray from the beaten path. Locales where local tour guides might try and herd us were spots we'd specifically try and avoid. Instead of the superficial and sterilized China found in glossy coffe table books, we were looking for the objective and the -- 'Qualifies as Behavioral Science Distribution Course. common folk while we were Having the luxury of speaking the language played in our favor most of the time. In addition to real. traveling. Travelling thus, we made many friends and were befriended by many more. We planning our own itinerary and finding our own hotelshostels, it afforded us the added benefit of being able to communicate with the locals wherever we went. In China, Mandarin Chinese is the universal tongue. Though there are literally thousands of dialects and variations differing vastly from Mandarin in word, the language is still recognized throughout every province in the had watermelon cut for us in a communal train car, were the meal recipients of a on a packed river barge and were treated to a kung-f- u flick in a Peking suburb. The Chinese have a penchant for unreserved and unconditional hostmanship. Without a doubt and beyond comparison with any other localecountry this author's ever left footprints in, our journey's most fascinating day was spent where we least expected it. Far away from the imposing grandeur of Peking's Forbidden City, and even further from that five-cour- country. Thus, with fluent tongue in cheek and pack on back we set out to discover China. Differing from the polish-and-shin- e productions that guided tour groups found unavoidable, ours was less a cursory acquaintance with the country and more a visceral one. I'll explain. For the most part the methods of travel we employed were of the same variety the locals used. In addition to "planes, trains and automobiles," pedi-cab- mis-spe- - morning market in the little village of Fuli in China's Southern Guangxi Province. The morning market is the heart and soul of every small Chinese village. It is here where the people live and work, socialize, interact, even exist. I maintain there is no better place to view a cross-sectio- n of Chinese culture than at a busy .and vibrant morning market. Our interaction with Chinese culture far transcended a paltry "view," however. Ours bordered on total immersion. As we s, bicycles, ferries, sampans and barges also assisted us in getting around. The aforementioned modes of transportation not only got us from point A to B but allowed us to mix in with the entered into the throngs of merchants, consumers, pickpockets, hagglers, aspiring With any Luck you'll be in v capitalists, etc., our senses were accosted on all sides. Sounds of squealing pigs protesting the humiliating straw cages that held them reached our ears. Sights of dentists drilling teeth a few feet from these pigs met our eyes. And smells never experienced before, never to be experienced again, cleared our sinuses. Pungent, biting smells, delicious aromas and the occasional yet always familiar waft of the open sewer a smell so indigenous to China we Ireland This Summer Join us for an Irish Studies Program - : . at Trinity College DUBLIN, IRELAND 2T' labor-induce- d nt monstrosity known as the Great Wall, the one day that will forever embody China in our memories was spent in a CONTINUING EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF UTAH f July 4 - 17 discovered the airplane lavatories have even acquired it. Amidst all this were the people. Buying, selling, living and existing. Lives devoid of the novelty we found from them. Lives that have, for the most part, remained unchanged from that of their ancestors hundreds of years ago. Lives that gave us a glimpse then and left a memory now of the diversity of human Morning Classes Attend Workshops Go Pub Crawling A Night at Abbey Theater Excursions to Northern Ireland t IjVI m IKilJHaPiB !ICi!!ivYJJWKV;i se existence. 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