Fulbright Scholar Stories: Dana Baker Wilde

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Dana Baker Wilde
Adjunct Lecturer, English Department, University of Maine, Orono, ME
Lecturing: American Literature
Host: Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
August 2001 - January 2002

Dana Baker Wilde, adjunct lecturer in English at the University of Maine, spent the 2000-2001 academic year as a Fulbrighter lecturing in American literature at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and at Xiamen University in Xiamen in the fall of 2001. He was accompanied by his wife Bonnie and son Jack. The three had many adventures together, and he sent us this series of compelling "Letters From China."

		From Maine to China
		Altered reality
		Language is everything
		What Chinese food is really like
		The I Ching as Bible
		On basketball
		The spy plane crisis
		China and America are each other's inside out

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