The most important part of the exchange, of course, is the students engaging in cross-cultural people-to-people contact through their email letters. However, while facilitating China-US cross-cultural interaction, the exchange serves each teacher as a stimulating learning tool for the students.

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The students' letters present fresh insights into their daily lives,
 their personal histories, their family relations, their plans and hopes
 for the future, and
 their particular views
 of their societies
 and of world events. Overall, the letters
 show often surprising contrasts and similarities between Chinese and American students
 and how
 they see themselves and their contemporaries across the Pacific.

Spring '04

Spring '03 

Fall '03      

For Garrett McDowell, coordinating the project at Tianjin University of Technology, it is an aid in teaching English Writing.

Fall '03

Spring '03 

For Marla Copple at the College of the Sequoias, Visalia, California, the exchange is a focus for her Cultural Anthropology class.

Fall '03

Spring '03 

For Gerri Bates at Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, the exchange added content for her Humanities class.

Spring '03

Spring '03 

For Sue Fawn Chung at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, the exchange was an extra-credit activity for her History class.

Spring '03

July'03 

For Mary Tarbox at Mt. Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the exchange became the Cultural Diversity component of her Nursing class.

Fall '03

Fall '03 

For Gerri Bates, now at Bowie State University, Bowie, Maryland, the exchange provided a trans-Pacific discussion between grad seminars.

Fall '03

Fall '03 

For Xuemei Lu at Western Illinois University, McComb, Illinois, the exchange provides China contacts for her Chinese Language class.

Fall '03

Fall '03