DURING
2005, WE MADE THREE TRIPS TO EAST ASIA
BELOW ARE IMAGES FROM SOME OF THOSE
ADVENTURES!
TRAVEL TO TAIWAN, JANUARY 2005
This is an image from the January 4 signing ceremony between the Graduate Institute of Political Science at National Sun Yat-sen University and the Missouri State Department of Political Science on the campus of National Sun-Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. NSYSU has been named by the Ministry of Education as one of Taiwan's seven major research-intensive universities. With a population of over two million, Kaohsiung is the second largest city in Taiwan. Their Political Science department only has exchange agreements with a small number of other institutions--including the two best universities in the People's Republic of China (Beijing University and Fudan University). The image above shows all the participants at the signing ceremony. To my right is Dr. Chung-Cheng Chang, President of NSYSU and to my left is Dr. Da-Chi Liao, Director of the Graduate Institute of Political Science. The others are various deans and professors except for the person on the extreme right as you look at the screen (that is my wife, Cheng-May).
This
image shows Dr. Hickey receiving a small gift (in a
big bag) from President Chang. Its a coffee mug from the university. Its
unfortunate that the images don't show the entire poster behind the
participants. Students made a nice poster that included the Missouri State logo and a Missouri State
bear.
TRAVEL TO CHINA, NOVEMBER 2005
WE ARRIVED IN
SHANGHAI ON OCTOBER 31.
THE FOLLOWING DAY, WE CHECKED OUT SOME OF THE SITES
THIS
SHANGHAI SKYSCRAPPER IS LOCATED
NEAR THE PEARL (ABOVE) AND LOOKS A LOT
LIKE TAIPEI 101 (THE TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD).
SHANGHAI MAY NOT HAVE THE TALLEST SKYSCRAPPER,
BUT IT HAS THE MOST IN THE WORLD
A NIGHT
VIEW OF THE PEARL FROM NANJING LU.
WHEN WE FIRST LIVED IN CHINA MANY YEARS AGO
(1989-90), THERE WERE NO LIGHTS AT NIGHT
(WHICH MADE WALKING A REAL ADVENTURE!)
ANOTHER NIGHT
VIEW OF THE PEARL (FROM THE BUND)
TYPICAL
INTERSECTION IN SHANGHAI.
THE POLLUTION GAVE DENNY A BAD CASE OF
BRONCHITIS (AND MAKES A LOT OF OTHER
PEOPLE SICK)
ANOTHER VIEW
OF THE SAME INTERSECTION WHERE
DENNY IS BREATHING IN MORE POLLUTION
DENNY ON
NANJING LU (LOOKS LIKE JET LAG OR
THE POLLUTION IS GETTING TO HIM)
DENNY
DELIVERED A LECTURE ON US-PRC-TAIWAN
RELATIONS AT FUDAN UNIVERSITY.
HERE DENNY & CHENG-MAY POSE ON FUDAN'S
CAMPUS IN FRONT OF STATUE OF MAO ZEDONG
VIEW OF
CENTRAL ON HONGKONG ISLAND
DURING HIS
SABBATICAL, DENNY MET WITH
NUMEROUS OFFICIALS. HERE DENNY
MEETS WITH FORMER PRESIDENT LEE TENG-HUI AT HIS HOME.
LEE WAS PRESIDENT FROM 1988 UNTIL
2000 AND PRESIDED OVER TAIWAN'S DEMOCRATIZATION.
TODAY HE IS THE SPIRITUAL LEADER OF THE TAIWAN
SOLIDARIYT UNION (ONE OF TAIWAN'S FOUR MAJOR
POLITICAL PARTIES) AND FAVORS TAIWAN'S
DE JURE INDEPENDENCE FROM CHINA.
AND LAST, BUT
NOT LEAST, WE HAVE AN IMAGE
OF TWO WEI-GUO-REN AT SHIHLIN (PRESIDENT CHIANG'S
FORMER RESIDENCE IN TAIPEI). DR. HICKEY MET UP
WITH STRADER PAYTON, MISSOURI STATE'S FIRST
EXCHANGE STUDENT AT NATIONAL SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY.
