China

Editor’s note: Elizabeth Berryman, a Centre College student, is studying in China this fall and is writing about her experiences there. The Sun will be publishing her e-mails as a column. Elizabeth is the granddaughter of former Sun publisher Betty Berryman and her husband, Bob, and the daughter of Scott Berryman and Pam Larson of Lexington. Hello, all! I would like to apologize in advance for the length of this e-mail because we went on our first traveling adventure this week!

We are so excited to offer a Chinese culture crash course next week, taught by Zhoufen He Southerland, Boyle County 4-H program assistant. Zhoufen, a native of Louyang, China, and retired from a 30-year career teaching Chinese students to speak, read and write English, has agreed to share her unique and expansive knowledge of her home country with our young people. The project will meet at the extension office daily from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sept. 13-16. The crash course is for ages 8 to 18. There is no cost to enroll, but you must pre-register by calling (859)

Dear Editor, Concerning the article on April 22 in The Advocate-Messenger about Centre College student Jing Zhang. Let me reference three quotes from the article "Centre Olympic display to pique interest in China. " First: "To be honest, many people in Kentucky have misconceptions and inaccurate ideas of China, and I would like to do my part in correcting those assumptions. " I guess we hillbillies are just too backwards to grasp the greatness of China. Second: "Western media is unfair.

Editor's note: The author is the letter is the former plant manager at the Red Wing shoe factory in Danville. Dear Editor: I read the news from The Advocate-Messenger every chance I get. It is a great pleasure to keep up on my favorite area. My new home over the last year has been in China. ZhongShan City in China is a great place to live and work. Yes, there are very good people in China. But I miss your beautiful Kentucky community. In my travels, I can think of no better place to raise one's children.

WASHINGTON - The phrase "regime change" is associated with the doctrine of preventive war as applied to Iraq. But another sort of regime change has been the crux of U.S. policy toward China through most of the 35 years since President Nixon's opening to that nation in 1972. Since the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the objective of U.S. policy has been - and often has been proclaimed to be - the steady subversion of China's repressive regime. The cure for communism is supposed to be commerce with the capitalist world: Trade can turn China's potentially aggressive energies into constructive, pacific channels.

I recently returned from a ten day trip to China, and I can tell you that it's time for all of us to start paying attention to this rising country. My travels through Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai confirmed what I have long suspected-the emergence of China as a force in the world economy poses an immense challenge to future prosperity in America.  Big changes that will challenge the U.S. economy are already underway. Even though this Asian country has only barely scratched the surface of its potential, China has made tremendous strides toward becoming an economic leader in the 21st century.

When the Olympic torch passed through Guizhou province, it ventured across the last frontier of China, the place modernity has not yet fully reached. Even the Chinese speak of the province as backward. "Greyzhou," some call it. Although it is lush, the sun seldom shines. Yet for a moment the torch illuminated this obscure, minority-rich region in mid-June. Guizhou's beauty is raw, a beauty without rating. Only recently has the province opened its doors to foreigners. The route to Kaili, called the Miao and Dong minority capital, passes villages nestled in clefts of irregularly shaped mountains and shallow valleys.

Visual artist Margie Sobol works in a medium that is as exceptional as it is elegant and delicate: china. But it’s old hat for the Danville resident whose mother also was a china painter. Sobol’s house is filled with hand-painted china in a variety of forms: lamps, vases, plates, trinket boxes, teacups and saucers. In her downstairs area are many, many dolls with porcelain faces, as well as the two kilns where the materials with which Sobol works get fired. Sobol’s china comes from all over the world.

Dear Editor, My letter is regarding Mr. Knight's three insightful remarks in his letter to the editor about Jing Zhang's Olympic display at the Centre College library. First, yes, "We hillbillies are too backwards to grasp the greatness of China. " Thanks for providing the example. Many people in Kentucky, and in the world, do, in fact, have misconceptions about China. I would imagine that the incident at Duke University would indicate that a lot of people have misconceptions about China.

6 a.m.: Wake up to a completely lit room because the sun has already been up for 2 hours. The time in China is not split into time zones; it is all based on the time in Beijing so the sun comes up at 4 a.m. and goes down at around 5:30 p.m. 9 a.m.: Wake up for real. 9:15 a.m.: Head to the track for a work out. 9:17 a.m.: Make sure to look both ways while crossing the street so as to not get hit by a car, moped, bike or garbage truck. Drivers seem to think it is unnecessary to stop at crosswalks.

Strode Station SBDM special meeting The Strode Station Elementary School-based Decision-making Council will have a special meeting at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the school library. Kiwanis board to meet The Winchester Kiwanis Club will meet at noon Wednesday at Taste of China for its monthly board of directors meeting.

Chapter 1828 of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association met for its regular monthly business meeting at noon Tuesday, Feb. 28, at Taste of China. Singer Jennifer Webb presented a program of gospel music for the group. Present for the meeting were Gayle Rees, Charlotte Rees, Jim Fehr, Philip Jackson, Elizabeth Bunch, Dolores Tabor, Wanda Bachman, Floyd Gibbs, Pat Gibbs, Jennifer Webb, Terry Omohundro, Linda Toler, Jean Brandenburg, Billie Scrivner, Lila Omohundro, Janice Taulbee and Faye Laubert.

This Christmas will be one Kristy and David Aldridge and their four children will never forget. The Aldridges just returned home from Taiyuan, China, where they welcomed the newest addition to their family: 2-year-old adopted daughter Lynnlee.  “This is the best Christmas present ever,” David said. “This is the culmination of an unbelievable prayer experience for us.” The Aldridges already had three children, Lauren, 14, Keaton, 11 and Karlee, 6, but Kristie said she long wanted to adopt a child, and last November she and David felt like they were led to do so. “Adoption was always a part of our life because Lauren was adopted from a previous marriage, and I had always wanted to adopt a child,” Kristy said.

Visual artist Margie Sobol works in a medium that is as exceptional as it is elegant and delicate: china. But it’s old hat for the Danville resident whose mother also was a china painter. Sobol’s house is filled with hand-painted china in a variety of forms: lamps, vases, plates, trinket boxes, teacups and saucers. In her downstairs area are many, many dolls with porcelain faces, as well as the two kilns where the materials with which Sobol works get fired. Sobol’s china comes from all over the world.

June 24, 1986 The Sun congratulates Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Fowler, Atlanta, Ga., on the birth of a son June 9. He has been named David Vaughn. Mrs. Fowler is the former Martha Snowden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Snowden, formerly of Winchester, and the granddaughter of Mrs. Jess F. Snowden of Winchester, and the late Mr. Snowden. Phillip Ho, a native of Tibet, will discuss a recent trip to Tibet and China at Wednesday’s luncheon meeting of the Winchester Kiwanis Club at Bud’s Beef ‘n More.

Nicholasville residents Clay Miller, Mark Miller and Blake Garrison are competing in the World Race 2011 New York to Paris, which begins on April 14 and concludes on July 21. Clay Miller will drive a rebuilt 1932 Ford Coupe from Times Square in New York City to San Francisco; his son Mark Miller will help navigate. In San Francisco on April 27, the car will ride on a ship to Beijing, China, where Clay Miller will rejoin it with grandson Blake, the international navigator, on June 3. The two will drive through China to Almaty, Kazakhstan, then on to Moscow, Russia — where Clay’s wife, April Truitt, will take over navigation — and finish in Paris, France.

Well, I’m on the airplane on my way back to the U.S. Only five more hours until I land. I can’t believe I have been gone for three months. It’s pretty crazy to think about the fact that I haven’t been at my home and I have lived on my own in a place where I didn’t speak the language and basically didn’t know anything beforehand, and I made it back alive. Our Mandarin teacher always told us how surprised she was that we would plan trips without a teacher and go on the trips and make it back all on our own. I honestly can’t believe it either.

6 a.m.: Wake up to a completely lit room because the sun has already been up for 2 hours. The time in China is not split into time zones; it is all based on the time in Beijing so the sun comes up at 4 a.m. and goes down at around 5:30 p.m. 9 a.m.: Wake up for real. 9:15 a.m.: Head to the track for a work out. 9:17 a.m.: Make sure to look both ways while crossing the street so as to not get hit by a car, moped, bike or garbage truck. Drivers seem to think it is unnecessary to stop at crosswalks.

Chapter 1828 of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association met at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 26 at the Taste of China on the Bypass. Mike Flynn, general manager of Winchester Municipal Utilities, was the guest speaker, and he spoke about the different areas of responsibility of the utilities agency. Also, Bill Crase, District 5 vice president for NARFE, brought the group up to date on various NARFE activities. Present for the meeting were Elizabeth Bunch, Betty Hollon, Audrey King, Gayle Rees, Larry Bosco, R.B. Omohundro, Lila Omohundro, Garrett Brown, Serena Brown, Otella Witt, Jim Fehr, Janice Taulbee, Steve Lech, Ruth Lech, Herschel Turner, Billie Scrivner, Jean Brandenburg, Kay Scrivner, Ruby Lenox, Geneva Lenox, Elizabeth Chalfant, Floyd Gibbs, Pat Gibbs, Mike Flynn and Bill Crase.

This week we went to People’s Square, or “Pee Poe Square” according to a voice on the Metro. The main landmark of Shanghai is right across the Huangpu River from People’s Square, and it is a radio/telephone tower. We went to the Jade Buddha temple and went to a market where I failed miserably at bargaining. I bought some very authentic looking Fay Bans (faux Ray Bans) for friends at home and chopsticks, since I am obviously a pro these days. We had our “orientation” today at the Baoshan campus of Shanghai University, and it would have been very interesting and insightful if I knew a single word of Chinese other than hello.