June 15, 2004

 The OYCF is pleased to announce that it has received an endowment of $200,000 from Professor Gregory Chow, a world-renowned economist and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. The endowment will be used to fund five short term teaching trips to China each year. The recipients of the OYCF-Gregory C. and Paula K. Chow fellowships will teach a subject in humanities or social sciences in a Chinese university.

OYCF is a U.S. based non-profit and tax-exempt organization dedicated to promoting cooperation and exchange of ideas between China and the rest of the world, and it provides a forum for disciplinary discussions of social, economic, political and cultural issues concerning China. OYCF sponsors overseas scholars, professionals and graduate students to teach in China. For more information about OYCF, please visit http://www.oycf.org/.