doc summers on Tiger Mountain

The Sam B. Hall Jr. Lectureship has been a feature on the ETBU campus since 1993 when it and the professorship were started. This year we will have a banquet and guest lecturer from The University of Mary Hardin Baylor, Dr. J. David Holcomb. His talk on the implications of recent Supreme Court decisions for religious liberties will capture some attention and provoke discussion. The event is on February 22 at 7:00 p.m. in the Heritage Room of the Jarrett Library. Call 903.923.2083 for ticket information.

So our plan to be in Lanzhou at our partner institution Lanzhou University of Technology will not work this year (no foreigners in Gansu Province), and our international director has us on the Beijing to Hong Kong train — only a 25-hour trip. We can do that. Let’s call it quality time for our group, and an opportunity to meet other rail travelers. Our historical focus will change from Silk Roads ancient and modern to the geopolitical and economic history of a maritime entrepot, the Hong Kong of almost seven million persons. We also get to visit our partner institution in Guangzhou (The Guangdong College of Foreign Languages and Art), just a two-hour train ride after we depart HK. But only for three or four days there, though we will be able to visit some classes, spend time with their students, faculty, and administrators, and visit some key sites in GZ. More later, especially the Travel Study China Report on the ETBU website.