SEAIE took advantage of its wide channels to cooperate with the foreign friendly association to organize foreign students to study Chinese and Chinese culture in Shanghai. SEAIE treats 20 long-term students and 50 short-term students every year on average. Most of the students come to China to learn Chinese, traditional Chinese medicine and other subjects that have Chinese features at their own expenses. SEAIE arranges these foreign students to live and study in Shanghai's colleges. Besides learning Chinese and Chinese culture, the foreign students get themselves to accustomed to the Chinese life style. In the meanwhile, they make full use of their stay in China to make friends with the Chinese in or out of school and friendship generates between them while in the process of understanding each other. So after they graduate and go back to their own country, every foreign students will look on their experiences in Shanghai as a sweet memory in their life.

In recent years, with the external opening of Shanghai, there are more and more foreigners to live and work in Shanghai. Many of them have a strong interest in Chinese historical culture and customs. As these people are living in a special circle around us, in order to make their life more colorful, SEAIE specially hold lectures on individual Chinese teaching and historical Chinese culture for them. We meet their need of knowing Shanghai and China in the form of humanity journey, lectures and visits on special topics and make them have opportunities to experience the Chinese culture of 5,000 years by their own after work. (The Photo)

The series activities of experiencing the Chinese culture are very colorful, almost involving in every part of the traditional Chinese culture like Chinese tea culture, the history of Shanghai, the ancient buildings of Shanghai, Beijing Opera, pottery art, lectures on Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China's costume and so on. To make the contents of the lecture more vivid, the personnel of SEAIE show them around some distinguished features of Shanghai, such as the Bund and the Temple of Town God. Sometimes they even give the lecture in the visiting sites. In addition, SEAIE also organized the foreign people to go out of town to see about in Shanghai's suburb, even in Suzhou or Hangzhou. This made the foreign friends to learn Chinese culture's variety and profundity.

After a few years' practice, the series of activities of "Experiencing the Chinese Cultures" are broadly welcomed by the foreigners living in Shanghai for long term. The Association has also acquired valuable experience from the activities. We hope that we can carry forward the cause and forge ahead into the future to make new achievements in the culture exchange.