Educational Exchange & Consulting
About Chinalink
Chinalink: Educational Exchange & Consulting is a partnership between two individuals who have a strong interest in promoting educational exchange between China and the United States. We believe that there is an urgent need to improve the quality and quantity of academic and professional exchange programs between our two cultures, which, despite many years of increasingly diverse economic, political, social and cultural interaction, continue to be troubled by misunderstandings.
Most of our experience is in developing and administering study abroad programs for U.S. college and university students. We acquired that experience working for many years for one of the most widely recognized study abroad organizations in the world, as well as for educational institutions on both sides of the cultural divide. We continue to maintain full-time positions related to our interest in promoting increased understanding between China and the United States.
Our programs reflect and extend the influence of our current work. In the course of our professional lives we have also facilitated a variety of exchanges between governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations and private businesses.
Most of our experience is in developing and administering study abroad programs for U.S. college and university students. We acquired that experience working for many years for one of the most widely recognized study abroad organizations in the world, as well as for educational institutions on both sides of the cultural divide. We continue to maintain full-time positions related to our interest in promoting increased understanding between China and the United States.
Our programs reflect and extend the influence of our current work. In the course of our professional lives we have also facilitated a variety of exchanges between governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations and private businesses.
Hong Yao has more than twenty years of experience teaching Chinese as a Second Language. After graduating with a degree in Modern Chinese Literature from Nanjing University, she taught American undergarduates Chinese for the Duke in China program, and the CIEE Cooperative Language and Study Program at Nanjing University. After teaching Chinese at Grinnell College on a university-sponsored exchange program,, Ms. Yao returned to China and eventually became Resident Director of the CIEE Semester and Academic Year program at Peking University. After moving to the United States she continued to work for CIEE as the Resident Director of the CIEE Summer Language Program at Peking University. She has been an Adjunct Professor of Chinese at Green Mountain College, Boston College and Pomona College, where she is currently teaching.
Gregory Kulacki worked in China for nearly ten years for CIEE as the Resident Director of the CIEE Cooperative Language & Study Program at Nanjing University, the Resident Director of the CIEE Cooperative Language & Study Program at Peking University and finally as the Director of Academic Programs in China. He founded CIEE's Teach in China program, and led several Faculty Development Seminars.
Gregory left CIEE to take up a position as an Associate Professor of Government at Green Mountain College. He later moved to Pitzer College to become their Director of External Studies, where he established a new program in Chinese Media Studies at Peking University . He left Pitzer in 2002 to conduct research and work on facilitating bi-lateral exchanges in the field of Arms Control and Disarmament.
Dr. Kulacki earned his Ph.D. in Government & Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1994. His dissertation focused on the impact of cross-cultural education on political development in modern China. His views on the relationship between study abraod programs in China and area studies programs in US colleges and universities were published in the Winter, 2000 edition of Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad
Gregory left CIEE to take up a position as an Associate Professor of Government at Green Mountain College. He later moved to Pitzer College to become their Director of External Studies, where he established a new program in Chinese Media Studies at Peking University . He left Pitzer in 2002 to conduct research and work on facilitating bi-lateral exchanges in the field of Arms Control and Disarmament.
Dr. Kulacki earned his Ph.D. in Government & Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1994. His dissertation focused on the impact of cross-cultural education on political development in modern China. His views on the relationship between study abraod programs in China and area studies programs in US colleges and universities were published in the Winter, 2000 edition of Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad