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During the process of creating and editing, I have gotten so much care for, help and direction from so many people and organizations. I would really like to thank them and introduce them to you with a grateful heart.
Production General Supervisor:
緇箙Mr. Yixiong Xu the President of Jinan University Press it was he who
suggested the idea of creating a cross cultural research project in 2009 and since then,
he and his team have been directing, helping and supporting me with my work on it.
Advisors
篋綛Prof. Jiang Yaping (China) -- The founder of and the first Editor in Chief of Peoples Daily Online and Nieman Fellow of Harvard University, Deputy Secretary-general of China Land Science Society and the former President of China Land and Resources Newspaper Office, he led me into the Internet field in 1997 and he has encouraged me and given me good advice about my study, think and exploration on the project since 2005.
臀絎乗 Mr. Steve H Robinette (USA) -- Assistant Vice President of Missouri State University, he has given me many kind directions, much advice and actual help with this project and American culture study since 2009.
羯膸莎 Prof. Weiqi Man (China) -- Executive Deputy Dean of Chinese Painting School atChinese National Academy of Arts, tutor of masters students,a member of the Chinese Artists Association. He has directed me to paint in person and he encouraged and supports me to study, research and explore this project at CNAA since 2011.
English Director
藝 箙篌Mr. Mike Joyce (UK) A native English speaker, he has been my English tutor since 2002. He has checked all of the articles and text files for this project.
Music Director
篌筝Prof. Weiye Meng (China) Graduate from the Central Conservatory of Music , and a professor of Guangxi Arts Institute, he checked and corrected my music score, coached me in my singing, directed me in making the recordings and accompanied me on the piano for all the songs on the recording.
薊沿絽 Ms. Xuan Ma (China) My first music teacher 2002 to 2007. She witnessed how I created more than 130 pieces of music for Chinese poems. She coached me to sing the poems for the project in Beijing in 2012 and she directed a part of my singings and record for this project in Shenzhen in 2013.
Painting Directors:
絖筝 Prof. Xuezhong Hai(China) Director of Teaching Department of Graduate School and Chinese Painting School at Chinese National Academy of Arts, a judge of the senior professional titles of CNAA, A member of the Council of the Research Society of Chinese Gongbi Zhong Cai (Painting with Exact Delineation and Enriched Colors) of Chinese Artists Association, he directed me on the painting colors, structures and how to improve myself from an amateur painter to be a professional painter.
綵よ絽Mr. Tong Wu -- Deputy Director of Teaching Department of the Chinese Painting School at Chinese National Academy of Arts, he helped and directed me most in my Chinese painting at CNAA.
∽羝絽Mr. Wenqing Lu -- My instructor of Chinese Flower and Bird Painting and my Class Adviser at Chinese National Academy of Arts. He directed me in all my paintings and sketches directly from nature in CNAA.
絖絽Mr. Qi Sun -- A member of the Chinese Artists Association, he helped me choose Chinese National Academy of Arts to study and to work on the project, he directed me not only on Chinese Flower and Bird Painting, but also Chinese Landscapes.
絽Mr. Gang Li -- My first teacher of landscape at China Central Academy of Find Arts and my class adviser , the good foundation that was made at CAFA helped me become a graduate student at and to work on the project continuously.
莨Prof. Hui Tao -- My first Chinese painting teacher who taught me for 8 years from 2003, and it laid the basic foundations for me to enter the art schools in Beijing and work on the project.
Software Developer
綣 Charlie Quan Zhang -- Assistant general manager of the network company of Securities Times Newspaper Office and my work partner. He developed the software relates to this project.
Art Designers
膾絨鎈 Ms. Tina Hongye Zhou and 臀莚綽鐚They did the art design of the covers of the book, DVD and the web site.
Responsible Editer and Proof-reader
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Publisher: Jinan University Press
Producers: Shenzhen E-bridge Science and Technology Development Ltd.
Jiangsu E-bridge Culture Development Ltd.
Mastermind, Translator, Painter, Composer, Singer and Recorder of the product: 綣筝綛 Shirley Yiping Zhang (China) I am a full time Chinese painting graduate student at Chinese National Academy of Arts and China in Beijing. I have majored in Chinese language and literature, world economics, journalism (news), business administration, English and Chinese painting at eight universities in China and in USA.
First time I started to write about Chinese culture in 1999. I had the idea of starting a cross-cultural project after I heard how much different English in different countries while on a travel to Europe in 2000. Then I masterminded and translated (from English to Chinese) the first E-bridge series books, Together With Me, Learn True American Englishwhich includes 4 volumes, 4 CDs and contained 0.93 million words. With good help from a group of American, Canadian and Chinese friends, it was published by Jinan University Publish Press in Oct, 2002.
Then I started to learn vocal music in Nov, 2002, re-started to learn painting in 2003, then I started to create music for Chinese poems, to sing them in Chinese, and to translate the poems, folk songs into English in 2005, meanwhile, I found the web site www.ebridge.cn in 2005.
In 2007, I started to create paintings for Chinese classical poems and I tried singing them in English.
In 2008, I became a part time student of Beijing Foreign Studies University online, then I went to Missouri State University, USA, as a master student even though I had already got a doctoral degree.
From 2009 to 2011, I held 3 art exhibitions, visited 23 public schools, 4 universities, an arts centre and participated in a World Language Conference to introduce Chinese culture by means of my own comprehensive art with painting, singing, poetry and lectures 42 times in USA.
From 2010 until now, I have been a full time Chinese Painting student at China Central Academy of Fine Arts and at Chinese National Academy of Arts in Beijing.
My dream is to create a unique, artistic series product and service that is focused on Chinese poetry, painting and music, to help non-Chinese speakers learn Chinese culture and language naturally, artistically and more easily; to help Chinese teenagers from the remote and poor areas by inviting them to be this project' learners and participators.
I wish it to be mainly delivered by Internet, multi-media, and face to face.
Now I have made a model, I will invite more professional artists, musicians, scholars of Chinese teenagers to work with me in future editions, to created more and better works along with the time.
As the initiator of this project, I would really like to hear your comments and suggestions and hope to get your direction and advice.
Thank you for choosing this publication once more.
Sincerely yours,
Shirley Yiping Zhang
April 10, 2013
www.ebridge.cn
shirley@ebridge.cn
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