OYCF Teaching Programs in China
To facilitate the exchange of ideas and knowledge, and to create opportunities for transnational cooperation in advanced education, the Overseas Young Chinese Forum ("OYCF") sponsors short term teaching trips by overseas scholars and professionals to universities or other comparable advanced educational institutions in China. The subjects of the teaching program include various fields of law, humanities and social sciences.
The original teaching program started in 2000 after OYCF received grants from the East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School and the U.S-China Legal Cooperation Fund. As a result of those grants, teaching and research projects were conducted at the Law School of Renmin University of China in Beijing on various aspects of the securities and corporate laws. Please click here for details of this joint project.
In January 2002, the Ford Foundation agreed to make a three-year grant to support OYCF's teaching program in law, humanities and social sciences in China. In February 2002, partners of Jun He Law Offices, a prominent law firm in China, also approved a grant to OYCF's teaching program. Several distinguished individuals have also made donations to OYCF's teaching program. Jiping Zhang and Jie Lan, both practicing attorneys in Hong Kong; Zack Liu and Jianxin Li, both bankers in Hong Kong; and Junling Ma, a practicing attorney in California, have all made generous donations to OYCF's teaching program. With the generous support from the above institutions and individuals, OYCF has expanded its teaching program to cover other fields of law as well as various fields in humanities and social sciences, and the program is now called OYCF Teaching Fellowships. Please click here for details of the OYCF Teaching Fellowships.
In addition, with the support of a private donor, OYCF has added a new fellowship, the OYCF Education Teaching Fellowship. Please click here for details of the OYCF Education Teaching Fellowship.
In December 2002, OYCF received a second grant from the U.S-China Legal Cooperation Fund to co-sponsor a joint teaching program with the Financial Law Institute of Beijing University. Under the new joint teaching program, OYCF will sponsor four teaching trips in years 2003 and 2004 to Beijing University Law School. During each trip, one or two attorneys from OYCF will teach a three-week intensive course on American corporate and/or securities laws. Please click here for details of this joint project.
We are seeking additional financial support to expand our teaching programs in China. If you are interested in supporting OYCF's teaching programs in China, please contact teaching@oycf.org.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OVERSEAS YOUNG CHINESE FORUM
Financial contributions from the following contributors are gratefully acknowledged.
| Contributor | Teaching Program | Category |
| Ford Foundation | OYCF Teaching Fellowships | Benefactor |
| US-China Legal Cooperation Fund | Beida Teaching Program | Benefactor |
| U.S-China Legal Cooperation Fund | Ren Da Teaching Program | Major Donor |
| Janxin Li & Zack Liu | OYCF Teaching Fellowships | Donor |
| Jun He Law Office | OYCF Teaching Fellowships | Donor |
| Jie Lan & Jiping Zhang | OYCF Teaching Fellowships | Donor |
| Junling Ma | OYCF Teaching Fellowships | Donor |
| Po Sit | OYCF Education Teaching Fellowship | Donor |
| East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School | Ren Da Teaching Program | Sponsor |
The Announcement of OYCF Teaching Fellowships was distributed to a number of web sites and mailing lists thanks to the assistance of the following institutions and associations:
- ChinaRains at Stanford University
- Harvard China Review
- Columbia University Chinese Students and Scholars Association
- MIT Chinese Students and Scholars Association
- New York University Chinese Students and Scholars Association
- Princeton University Chinese Students and Scholars Association
- Yale University Chinese Students and Scholars Association
- University of California at Berkeley Chinese Students and Scholars Association
- University of Delaware Students and Scholars Association
- University of Pennsylvania Students and Scholars Association
- Chinese Economists Society
- Association of Chinese Professors in Social Sciences (USA)
- US-China Lawyers Association
- Asia Pacific Foundation
of Canada (http://www.asiapacific.ca/data/caprn/index.cfm)
- Beijing University Alumni Association of N.CA
- Beijing University Alumni Association (New England)
- Fudan University Alumni Association (Boston area)
- Qinghua University Alumni Association
- Renmin University Overseas Alumni Association
- Shanxi University Alumni Association
- Chinese Law Network
- Century China (http://www.cc.cn.org)
