Enhance your understanding of China, join SJTU-Antai Global Summer School!

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Enhance your understanding of China, join SJTU-Antai Global Summer School! 

      When talking about China, what comes to your mind first? The Great Wall, delicious food, precious pandas, or amazing Kung fu? How does authentic Chinese food taste? Is Mandarin so difficult to learn? What is Confucianism and the Art of War by Sun Tzu really about? Is China actually the same as portrayed by those Chinatowns all over the world, red lanterns hanging everywhere, with people living in the alleys? 

  Some perceptions of China are correct while some are not. You must come to China yourself to really know, because it is far from sufficient by talking to Chinese students and ethnic Chinese in your country. But are there any other ways more efficient and interesting to get to know the real China?

 

  Since 2013, Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University has offered a one-month ‘Antai global summer program’ to international undergraduate and graduate students. Through rigorous business courses, Chinese language lesson, various Chinese cultural activities, country tours etc, you will not only enjoy the experience of Chinese culture, but also improve your understanding of the Chinese culture. 

 

  Diana, a lively and cheerful Indonesian girl from Prasetiya Mulya Business School, was one member of the first class of Antai global summer program. What impressed her most was the cultural atmosphere of this course. ’Making dumplings and making pottery are so Chinese! It’s really useful to me to learn how to prepare Chinese meals correctly and how to make perfect tea.’ 

  Carl, a Swedish by origin, studied Asian culture in the University of Cambridge. After trips to Japan and South Korea, he considered it necessary to come to China himself. Other than giving him a thorough understanding of what he had learned from the textbook, Antai global summer program also corrected him from some misunderstandings.

 

  If you think of Antai global summer program only as in taking you to sightseeing and eating around to experience the Chinese culture, you are wrong! Different from other student exchange programs, Antai global summer program is proud of itself on helping you understand Chinese way of thinking behind the Chinese culture, one of the main benefits of this program.

  Professor Lu Wei, Senior Associate Dean of Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, expressed this view. When talking about the initiative of opening the Antai global summer program, he said, “globalization is always Antai’s important strategy. Since the exchanges between China and the West become more and more frequent, Chinese students have more opportunities to go abroad, but there are not many opportunities for foreign students to know China systematically and to understand the Chinese way of thinking, and it is the cultural difference that is behind all the differences in the way we communicate”

  As China has become a hot destination for business people around the world and more international companies invest in China, many commercial disputes occur due to lack of mutual understanding. How to build business relationships with Chinese people? How to interpret China’s business environment? The answers are built on knowledge and experience of Chinese culture as a prerequisite. 

 

  Antai global summer program not only offers unique cultural experience, but also provide first-class academic contents featuring MBA lectures, company visits, corporate seminars with executive speakers and business case competition. 

  Friedrich, a German student, commented eloquently about his gains: ’We visited many companies. Some of them are China’s startup company like Yihaodian, while others are joint ventures like Volkswagen China. We have field trips to know how they do business in China, and how they communicate with local employees. This gave me an absolutely different understanding about what I had imagined.’ He was also looking forward to sharing his experience to classmates back in Germany, ’China now has become a multicultural hotpot, and I really enjoy the unique cultural atmosphere in my class.’

 

  What’s more, most courses of Antai global summer program will be held in the metropolitan city, Shanghai. It is a dazzling pearl among all business cities in the world. If you want to become a business leader with international vision, we are sure that you will not regret to come to appreciate commercial charms of Shanghai and to experience the pace and way of doing business of Shanghai.

  Enhance your career ? gain a solid understanding of business and culture in China ? join our Antai Global Summer Program!

  Program website: http://www.summerschool.sjtu.edu.cn

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