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Show Orential Culture Workshop at SUSC Looking at Flowers from Horseback,' comes form an ancient Chinese poem indicating in-dicating that rrom horseback hor-seback details cannot be seen, only the broad perspective," per-spective," Dr. Browning said. "Just as the title indicates, in-dicates, the workshop will offer a broad general perspective per-spective on the Japanese and Chinese cultures." The workshop is free to the general public. College credit through SUSC or Westminster College is available for a nominal fee, and the Utah State Board of Education is offering one quarter hour of in-service recertification credit free of charge. Chinese scientist-diplomat, and her mother teacher English at the University of Peking. Yeh came to the United States after Nixon visited China and the travel bans were lifted, and is now a graduate student at the University oT California, Berkeley. She will discuss what it was like to grow up in China during the regime of Mao Tse-tung. She will also demonstrate Chinese health care and acupuncture (Saturday at 1 :30 p.m.) Other speakers include Dr. David I,. Grossman, director of the Standford University Program on International and Cross Cultural Education: Dr. Paul V. Hyer, professor of history and Asian studies at Brigham Young University; Kay Sandberg, coordinator of Standford University's Teaching Japan in the Schools Program; and Dr. Browning. "The workshop title, A young Chinese woman trained in acupuncture and herbal medicine will be one of several guest speakers for "Looking j at Flowers from Horseback," a 12-hour workshop on Japanese and Chinese civilizations which will beheld May 11 and 12 at Southern Utah State College. The public is invited to attend any or all of the workshop sessions free of charge. Sessions will begin at 6 p.m. Friday in the Frank A. Thorley Recital Hall and will continue ,- until about 10 p.m. that evening. The workshop will reconvene at 8:30 a.m. Saturday and will run until noon, with an optional op-tional lunch, then will begin again from 1:30 p.m. until the summary panel at 4:15. The Japanese box lunches, "Bento," will be flown in from San Francisco for participants to sample authentic Japanese cuisine. "Full Moon Lunch," a film about a typical Tokyo family in the profession of making "Bento" lunches will be t shown during lunchtime. Looking at Flowers from ' Horseback" is being sponsored by SUSC and Westminster College in cooperation with the Stanford University School of Education and the Center for Research in International In-ternational Studies. Sessions are being funded by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Humanistic Studies. "The lectures, discussion groups, Asian exercises, box lunch, and acupuncture sessions offer the public a rare opportunity to discuss issues about one-fourth of the world's population with persons who have experienced ex-perienced and specialized in these sophisticated civilizations," Dr. Carol Browning, director of the the Institute for Humanistic Studies, said. Guest speakers for the program include Suzanna Yeh, the "barefoot" doctor trained in herbal medicine and acupuncture, who was born and raised in Peking. Her father (deceased) was a |