Full scholarships for post-graduate study at Donghua University, Shanghai
You’ve studied Chinese. Character by character. You’ve fought for a broad vocabulary, native slang and a perfect 2nd tone. Now what?
Apply for a full scholarship to pursue a post-graduate degree at Donghua University in Shanghai. Unlike your undergraduate study abroad experience, you will not be studying in a program geared towards foreigners. Instead, you will be a fully matriculated, fully funded graduate student completing a degree in Chinese alongside Chinese peers. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Donghua University in Shanghai, a CET partner, is offering ten full postgraduate scholarships to foreign students to commence studies in fall 2012. Donghua is home to a wide variety of Master’s and Doctoral programs, all of which are open to scholarship recipients. (Note that Donghua does not offer a graduate degree in Chinese Language, Linguistics or Literature.) The scholarship application deadline is March 31, 2012.
Scholarships include:
- Tuition
- Housing
- Monthly stipend
- Up to one full year of Chinese language instruction at Donghua before the start of postgraduate studies (as necessary, according to scholarship recipient language level)
CET is not involved in the scholarship selection process. Scholarship details are below. For inquiries, please contact:
Ms. Liu Wensheng, Admissions Officer
Donghua University
International Cultural Exchange School
International Students Admissions Department
Email: ices [at] dhu [dot] edu [dot] cn (include DHU 3.31 postgraduate scholarships in the subject line)
Phone: 86-21-6237-8595, ext.11
Donghua University Graduate Scholarship Information
The Donghua University scholarships come from two government sources: the China Scholarship Council (CSC) or the Shanghai city government.
Scholarship duration:
- Doctoral study: 3 to 4 years (4 to 5 years if recipient takes DHU Chinese language courses)
- Master’s study: 2.5 to 3 years (3.5 to 4 years if recipient takes DHU Chinese language courses)
Course of study selection:
- Scholarship recipients must pursue a Chinese language-instructed DHU Master’s/doctoral degree program (full list included below).
- Scholarship recipients are rarely permitted to change their academic program or duration of study once specified.
- Note that DHU does not offer a degree in the study of the Chinese language.
Scholarships cover:
- Tuition
- On-campus accommodation in DHU’s international student housing
- Monthly allowance of 1,700RMB for Master’s students, 2,000RMB for doctoral students, including Chinese language instruction period
- Textbooks
- Enrollment in the medical insurance and benefit plan for international students in China
- Partial coverage of outpatient medical fees
Scholarships do not cover:
- Plane tickets, transportation costs, visa expenses, and any other fees not listed above
How to Apply
Step One: Confirm your eligibility
- Applicant must be a non-Chinese citizen.
- Applicant must be in good health.
- Applicant must not be studying in China at the time of application.
- Applicant must have completed at least three semesters of college-level Chinese at the time of application.
- Applicants for doctoral degree studies must be under the age of 40 and have in hand a Master’s degree by fall 2012.
- Applicants for Master’s degree studies must be under the age of 35 and have in hand a Bachelor’s degree by fall of 2012.
Step Two: Apply
All items below must be received by 5am EST March 31, 2012.
Items to submit online:
- China Scholarship Council application. Instructions:
- Open CSC website: http://laihua.csc.edu.cn (use Internet Explorer for best results)
- Register
- Log in and choose ‘CHINESE GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIP’ > click ‘Next’ > enter ’10255′ in the ’Agency No.’ field
- Complete and submit the application. Please note that you will also need to download, print and sign two copies of this application when completed.
Note: The Chinese government’s CSC website is notoriously unreliable/inaccessible so start working on this early. Scholarship application deadlines will not be extended because of difficulties encountered with the CSC website.
Items to mail via post:
- Two completed and signed copies of completed CSC application.
- Official transcripts from all schools and study abroad programs attended as an undergraduate. Doctoral degree program applicants must submit official transcripts from all schools and study abroad programs attended as a Master’s degree student. Doctoral degree program applicants are not required to send undergraduate transcripts but may do so if they wish.
Mailing address: International Student Admissions Dept. of ICES-DHU; Attn: Liu Wensheng; Donghua University; ICES; 1882 Yan’an Rd. West; Shanghai 200051, China. All the items above must be mailed together in one envelope and received by 5am EST March 31, 2012 as noted above.
Items to submit electronically:
- Color scan of applicant’s valid passport.
- Color scan of applicant’s bachelor’s degree/ Master’s degree diploma. Applicants in the last semester of their bachelor’s degree/ Master’s degree studies must submit proof that they are on track to graduate at the end of the Spring 2012 term and must submit a color scan of their diploma by 6/15 at the latest. Scholarship recipients who fail to graduate in good standing at the end of the Spring 2012 term and submit a color scan of their degree by 6/15 will forfeit their scholarship.
- Scan of personal statement in English or Chinese with applicant’s signature.
- Scan of research proposal in English or Chinese with applicant’s signature.
- Doctoral degree program applicants are additionally encouraged to contact DHU faculty in their intended field of study before they submit their application. All relevant correspondence to this effect should be emailed along with the items listed above.
The items listed above must be emailed to ices [at] dhu [dot] edu [dot] cn. Applicants may break this up into multiple emails, but all items must be received in the same one-hour time window and prior to 5am EST March 31, 2012. Applicants should include the subject line ‘DHU 3.31 postgraduate scholarship applicant [your name]‘ on all emails.
Letters of Recommendation:
- Two letters of recommendation are required. A third letter of recommendation is permissible.
- For Master’s degree program applicants, one recommender must be a professor or associate professor that has taught the applicant.
- For doctoral degree program applicants, one recommender must be a professor or associate professor that has taught the applicant in their Master’s degree program.
- Recommenders must email their recommendations to ices [at] dhu [dot] edu [dot] cn directly.
- When submitting, recommenders should use the subject line: ’DHU 3.31 postgraduate scholarship applicant [your name]‘
- Recommenders must be informed that they may submit their recommendation in the body of the email or as an attached document.
- Recommenders must be informed that they are not to cc the applicant when submitting.
- Recommenders must be informed that their recommendation will kept strictly confidential.
- Recommenders must be informed that they may be contacted by ICES for verification and/or further applicant information.
Review and Selection
Completed applications will be reviewed by relevant DHU schools and colleges and then scholarship recipients and alternates will be selected by the Donghua University Review Committee on Scholarships for International Students. Applicants may be asked to do a phone interview at any point during this process.
DHU will notify scholarship recipients and alternates of next steps on April 10, 2012. Alternates will be notified of their rank (first alternate, second alternate, etc.) and will receive alerts via email as they move up in rank. Once 3.31 scholarships are finalized, some alternates will likely be offered less-comprehensive DHU scholarships according to their rank.
Once all formalities are completed and scholarship recipients finalized, scholarship recipients will be announced in an email to all applicants who submitted completed applications.
DHU Postgraduate Programs Instructed in Chinese
Master’s program only – one asterisk*
Both Master’s and Doctoral programs offered – two asterisks**
Doctoral program only – three asterisks***
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Excursion to Arashiyama
Written by Lauren Nakasato Resident Director for CET Intensive Language and Culture Studies in Osaka
February in Japan is cold. Even at sea-level, where it rarely snows, biting winds can slice through jackets, hats, scarves and gloves. We chose probably one of the coldest days in Kansai this winter to step out to Arashiyama for our day of temple exploration and Japanese sweets, but refused to let it put a damper on our spirits as we embraced the cold and used it to enhance our Kyoto experience.
Our ice-blocked hands were actually perfect for our first stop at the sweets shop. Our mission to turn lumps of colorful sweet bean paste into ornate flowers and pine trees was aided by our slowly thawing hands – hand temperature and length of time handling the ingredients impacts the final product, as the longer you knead and mold the putty-like paste, the more likely your creation will end up looking like a mangled ball of clay. Yet with our purple fingers, what we ended up with was a form of wagashi, the type of Japanese sweets traditionally used in tea ceremonies.
Warmed up from the matcha, or thick Japanese green tea, that was served to us at the sweets shop, we ventured back out toward Arashiyama. From the train window we could see a haze covering the mountains in the distance. “It must be snowing out there …” I thought. Never underestimate the power of wind. As we stepped off the train at JR Saga-Arashiyama Station, it was clear that the snow that was powdering the mountains was also going to be powdering us. Excitement rose as the thought of seeing Tenryuji, in snow crept into my consciousness.
The thing about snow is that it shifts your focus from your frozen limbs to the wondrous beauty of nature. At least for me, a California native, snow is a rare and magical phenomenon. And Tenryuji did not disappoint. With the help of the wind, we were able to experience the impermanence of snow as it continued to build up and melt away, even in the short time that we were there. Sitting at the famous Sogen Garden in a moment of sunlight, watching the snow melt off of the rooftops of Tenryuji in glittering trickles onto the Zen garden impressed upon me the sense that this moment, while fleeting, was truly special. In all of my visits to this World Heritage Site, never have I seen such a paradoxical juxtaposition of snow and sunlight, an image that will surely remain in my memory for years to come.
MILK AND GOULASH AND FRIED CHEESE, OH MY!
St. Nicholas Church
After being here for a full 24 hours, my roommates and I have finally gotten up the courage to take on the giantess, Tesco. For those who don’t know, Tesco is an enormous superplex of a store. If Wal-Mart and Target had a Czech child, it would be Tesco. It sells anything: groceries, clothing, Macy’s quality make up, glassware, etc. Everything was in Czech, so we had to look at the pictures on the face of each of the products. Ahead of time we were worried that my friend would have trouble distinguishing between the shampoo and conditioner, but we were able to figure out that “sampon” was shampoo. It’s interesting, for a language that sounds so unlike English, there is a solid amount of cognates. It’s always nice to catch a couple of words that I understand when people around me are talking. Luckily, soon we start the intensive Czech classes, so it will be a lot easier to get around. And, hopefully a lot easier to find normal milk…because while shampoo was no problem at all, we made a huge mistake when it came to milk. Three of us grabbed milk, placing it into our carts next to our cheapest-on-the-shelf knockoff Corn Flakes. Only early the next morning did we realize our error. In her one giant sip, my roommate both let the milk into her mouth and spit it back out onto her plate. Eva, our Czech roommate, later laughed and told us that we had actually bought a special kind of milk, and that the sour yogurt flavor was supposed to be there. Needless to say, I don’t plan on buying milk for a while. She also told us that in the Czech Republic they don’t sell much fat free/skim milk—that 2 percent is basically skim. While I don’t love it, it really does go with the theme of hearty food that the Czechs enjoy.
Typical Czech food tends to be salty and heavy and delicious. Last night, after an exciting day-long scavenger hunt that took us all over the city, we ended our trek at a restaurant called The Monastery. There, I tried goulash for the first time (a common Czech dish). It was amazing. It was a mixture of hearty dumplings, meat, and sauce. The dumplings confused me when I first saw them because I expected some kind of Chinese wonton soup dumpling, but these dumplings resemble boiled bread (and tasted like boiled bread). The dumplings were pretty great—especially when doused in the chunky sauce. We had dessert as well, and went home with full bellies that kept us warm despite the chilly air. And while that should’ve been it for the night, a group of us ended up passing by a small stand that had smažený sýr (fried cheese). We’d been told ahead of time that the fried cheese was a specialty. And it was no greasy campus mozzarella stick; these pieces of cheese were gourmet-tasting! It is not customary for them to give you tomato sauce for it, so usually you either eat it plain or have some mayonnaise on top. Regardless, they are fantastic. A perfect late night treat!
Oh No, Not another “Czech Out My Prague Blogue”!!!
Wenceslas Square
I’m actually here! I’m currently sitting on my low-to-the-ground, blue floral print bed and typing up the first post I will officially make in Prague, hardly awake from my first of many naps to come. To sum it up in a few words: Prague is amazing. It’s beautiful with the cobble stone walkways, the statue in Wenceslas Square surrounded by red candles and flowers to honor the memory of recently deceased Vaclav Havel (the first president of the Czech Republic and quite an amazing man), the bold and vibrant graffiti lined tunnels, etc. This is so clearly a hub of culture and expression, a fact that only makes me more excited to begin my classes about its history and evolution. Those classes, however, start in a week and a half. For now, I will focus on the here and the now.
Tonight we attended a dinner party for everyone in the CET program from Central European/Jewish Studies to the Film/Art Studies. Though the food was not necessarily “typical Czech” as one of our Czech buddies says, it was delicious. And to top if off, it was free—a concept that all students can agree is ideal. People shoveled down the buffet-style dinner and the dessert nut cake alike, most likely because nobody had braved the Czech grocery stores yet—something about packaged goods and a lack of English making for a tough combination. My roommate was smart enough to pack an emergency box of good, old-fashioned Pop Tarts. I definitely wish I’d packed some kind of snack. Luckily, living in Flora, my apartment is incredibly close to a mall. I can only imagine that somewhere in there granola bars sit on a shelf, waiting for me to arrive. Until then, however, I will be mooching off my amazingly sweet roommate. Can’t wait to see what’s to come!
Stay Tuned!
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