Wednesday, March 12, 2014

March 13 (W), 2014 Crystal's serendipitous teaching-learning-sharing #25 It's all about mind!




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A question appeared in an assignment when I was grading, which concerned the wide spectrum of personality types and disorders.

This issue would have been well discussed in a Psychology class. Psy of Human Relations is a pragmatic course more relevant to Social Psychology than to Psychology.

Just name 2 conspicuous ones (based on the contents in my Psy of Human Relations course and info from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -DSM-IV-TR).

Though this population is small (seemingly, growing!), be aware if they happen in your life, or - could be one in self… and gather supporting resources/seeking therapies if identified.

1. Narcissists:
A narcissist is an individual who has the tendency to regard oneself as grandiosely self-important. Hare are some characteristics of narcissists: who are highly sensitive to criticism, preoccupied with fantasies of success, believe in deserving special treatments, react aggressively when experiencing threats to their views (ego-threat), with fragile self-esteem, lack of empathy , and manipulative/exploitative.

2. Psychopath/Sociopath:
A psychopath is a person with antisocial personality which could be the most recognized personality disorder. A psychopath is often well liked because of their charm and high charisma, but they do not usually care about other people. They tend to be egoistic or self-centered, and often blame others for the things that they do. They have a complete disregard for rules and lie constantly. They seldom feel guilt or learn from punishments. Though some psychopaths have become murders, most revealing their psycho-pathetic behaviors through less deadly and sensational means.

Nature and nurture interplay to shape these types of personality conditions.

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Charles Barnard #2b make the best witnesses in court--they believe everything they say 110%. In fact, saying things like "I 'm behind you 110%" could be a symptom...
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is baking a walnut cake to share with my high-end neighbors (up to the pine-tree mansions) and the low-end tiny friends (somewhere, down to the rabbit holes??)

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Charles Barnard Rabbits save nothing.
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Crystal Huang I could not imagine how many funerals have been happening in the rabbit dens.... sad...(Like a few days ago, people found a mass graveyard of the wild turkeys that starved to death...).
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Charles Barnard I don't know that it's been a particularly rough winter for them, they'll eat anything vegetable. Was a long cold spell though.

If the population declined greatly, then foxes and other small predators will die rapidly too.
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Crystal Huang Yup, the FDA predicts that the WI hunting and gathering societies will have hard time to have food and fun in the coming season??? the food chain has been broken a little bit...
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Charles Barnard They don't want you to eat anything not passing through profitable factory...
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Charles Barnard Looks great!
What are you doing for lunch tomorrow...?
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Crystal Huang Same as my friends' - rabbits and squirrels (the rest of the half) !
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Charles Barnard Then there should be plenty of cake left for me..!\
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Darrell Broten Am I a high-end or low-end friend?
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Crystal Huang Darrell, your are a super-motorbike no-end in addition to the President-end.
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Sharing, nowadays, is not an easy task! It takes tremendous "philosophy" to share properly. I guess, mmm my tiny fluffy friends would not reject my treats ( I don't believe they have capitals to be on diet!!! :D), since after such a long, cold winter... (hard to find the Post-Its buried in the chunky snow, and rabbits don't save nuts for hard time !!!????)
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Crystal Huang Repost - Out of the oven - cut it half, to share with both "high and low end" neighbors.

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Crystal Huang Ready to go- on the snowy table!

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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

March 11 (T), 2014 Sing Sing A Song - 愛人 Japanese Song Aijin (Lover)



A good way to learn a foreign language is through its love songs

愛人 Aijin Lover (With my brief translations)

作詞 (lyrics writer):荒木とよひさ (Araki Toyohisa)
作曲 (song writer):三木たかし (Miki Takashi)

あなたが好きだから それでいいのよ (Japanese)
喜愛你就是這麼意一回事 (Mandarin)
Anata ga suki dakara sore de ii no yo (Japanese pronunciation)
(Because I like you - that's enough to) (English)

たとえ一緒に街を 歩けなくでも
雖無法漫步於街道
Tatoe isshyo ni machi wo arukenakutemo
(even if we cannot stroll in the street)

この部屋にいつも 帰ってくれたら
總是有一個小歸處
Kono heya ni itsumo kaette kuretara
(If you can always return to the house,)

わたしは待つ身の 女でいいの
可就這麼等待著
Watashi wa matsu mi no onna de ii no
(I am that lover who is waiting for you)

尽くして 泣きぬれて そして愛されて
愛是深沉淚是永無止盡
Tsukushite nakinurete soshite aisarete
(True love, inundated with tears )

時がふたりを 離さぬように
時光無法拆散
Toki ga futari wo hanasanu youni
(I wish time would not separate us)

見つめて 寄りそって そしてだきしめて
凝望著你漸進的你, 緊緊地擁抱
Mitsumete yorisotte soshite dakishimete
(By gazing at you, embrace each other)

このままあなたの胸で暮らしたい
多麼希望永駐你心頭
Kono mama anata no mune de kurashitai
(I want to be with you)

めぐり逢い少しだけ 遅いだけなの
相見恨晚
Meguri ai sukoshi dake osoidakenano
(Meeting in the sunset)

何も言わずにいてね わかっているわ
無言相知
Nanimo iwazuitene wakatteiru wa
(Even in silence, I understand)

心だけせめて 残してくれたら
為我留下你的心
Kokoro dake semete nokoshitekuretara
(Leave me with your heart,)

わたしは 見送る女でいいの
可就這麼看著你遠去
Watashi wa miokuru onna de ii no
(A genuine love sees you off)

尽くして 泣きぬれて そして愛されて
愛是深沉淚是永無止盡
Tsukushite nakinurete soshite aisarete
(The true love is inundated by the tears).

明日がふたりを こわさぬように
時光無法拆散
Asu ga futari wo kowasanu youni
(Time will not separate us)

離れて 恋しくて そして会いたくて
遠去的你令我思念不已
Hanarete koishikute soshite aitakute
(When you are away, I miss you)

このまま あなたの胸で眠りたい
多麼希望長睡於你心頭
Kono mama anata no mune de nemuritai
(I want to sleep in your arms)





March 11 (T), 2014 The Priced Freedom


Monday, March 10, 2014

March 10 (M), 2014 This is your land... This is Whose Land...


Regarding the songs of Lands,
refer to one - written and composed  by the Dust Bowl Troubadour
Woody Guthrie  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s

This land is your land This land is my land
From California to the New York island;
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and Me.

As I was walking that ribbon of highway,
I saw above me that endless skyway:
I saw below me that golden valley:
This land was made for you and me.

I've roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts;
And all around me a voice was sounding:
This land was made for you and me.

When the sun came shining, and I was strolling,
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling,
As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting:
This land was made for you and me.

As I went walking I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the other side it didn't say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.

In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?

Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me.

Saturday, March 8, 2014

March 8 (Sa), 2014 Crystal's Serendipitous teaching-learning-sharing #24 Celebrating International Women/Female Sentient Beings' Day - Continued

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Happy International Women's Day!

Around the world, women are fighting to right the wrongs of hunger, poverty, and injustice. Stand with them: http://www.oxfamamerica.org/IWD



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Crystal Huang "If wealth is the inevitable result of hard work, then most of women in Africa and in the similar conditions would be millionaires" - and I might be one of the millionaires-supposed-to-be :D!!!!! Who won't say that those 1% who own property might be just carrying on "the family legacy"?! So what other social forces or man-made reality push or drag such a phenomenon??? Yes, institutional, social, and global stratification could be an answer - which will be covered soon after spring break in my Diversity and Soc classes - just a short broadcasting ! Thanks to Jo Neverdahl Hayes's' sharing.
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Crystal Huang He sold his mansion, Porsche, and yacht and set off for Cambodia to provide food, shelter, and education to destitute children.
Scott Neeson's final epiphany came one day in June 2004. The high-powered Hollywood executive stood, ankle deep in trash, at the sprawling landfill of Stung Meanchey, a poor shantytown in Cambodia's capital.http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=5219

DailyGood: The Man Who Left Hollywood For His True Callingwww.dailygood.org
In a former life Scott Neeson was a high-powered Hollywood exec responsible for the global success of box-office hits like Titanic and Braveheart. But eight years ago, after a poignant experience at a Cambodian garbage dump, he quit his job, sold his mansion and traded in all the trappings of success...
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Rodney Schultz If this is true Crystal, why does The Boss get all of my checks?
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Crystal Huang Dear Rod, maybe you are very well-civilized ! - A great gentleman in a better society, who is granted the luxurious opportunity to offer the best of what you have to the beloved one - your SuperSuper lady Boss? By the way, not many men have this privilege ! Do you also pay her the monthly finance management fee in addition to her designing, fixing, building the basement, rearranging and beautifying the interior, as well as raising good children, cooking, cleaning and the rest of tons of nice work?

Crystal Huang Just read a message from an fb friend's posts (attached below). Indeed, there are many wonderful gentlemen out there deserving more than just accolades!

I preached quite the similar messages to a couple of my classes (though majority were females students):
雖然今天就是婦女節,我仍然要幫男人加油一下。
做男人,這輩子挺為難的...

找個漂亮女人吧,太操心;
找個不漂亮的吧,又不甘心。
光顧事業了,人家說你沒責任感;
光顧家了,人家又說你沒本事。
專一點吧,人家說你不成熟;
花心點吧,人家說你是禽獸;
有錢,人家說你是壞人(賺黑心錢);
沒有錢,人家罵你窩囊廢;
自己奮鬥吧,
等有錢了女友也老了,
讓女人養吧,不如自宮練葵花寶典算了。
不去應酬,怕被老闆廢了,
去應酬吧,怕被老婆廢了。
哎!這時代做男人真難。
女人可以等嫁,
俺們等啥呀?
女人還有個三八節,
俺們有啥呀?
帥點吧,太搶手,
不帥吧,拿不出手;
活潑點吧,說你太油;
不出聲吧,說你太悶;
穿西裝吧,說你太嚴肅;
穿隨便一點吧,說你鄉吧佬;
會掙錢吧,怕你包二奶;
不掙錢吧,又怕孩子斷奶;
結婚吧,怕自己後悔;
不結婚吧,怕她後悔;
要個孩子吧,怕出來沒錢養;
不要孩子吧,怕老了沒人養。

有誰懂…

被問;男人你累嗎?
男人答;不累。
被問;男人你疼嗎?
男人答;不疼。
被問;男人你苦嗎?
男人答;不苦。
被問;為什麼?
男人答;因為我是男人,我沒資格,喊累,喊疼,喊苦。
被問;那你為什麼哭?
男人答;因為我也是人,我也需要安慰,所有的,累,疼,苦。只能化為一滴滴淚水。
正在打拼事業的男人就像個搬磚工人,他抱著磚,就沒法抱你;
他放下磚,就沒法養你。

獻給所有正在不斷努力、勞動,創業,承受著所有壓力的好男人們 !See Translation
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Crystal Huang Dedicated to all the hard-working, loving, caring gentlemen "獻給所有正在不斷努力、勞動,創業,承受著所有壓力的好男人們" !See Translation
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March 8 (Sa), 2014 Let's celebrate the International FEMALE SENTIENT BEINGS' day??!!!


Crystal Huang shared Ray of Hope Sri Lanka's photo.
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Let's celebrate the International Female Sentient Beings' Day???!!! For example, a cow (yes, a female - a productive working mother- all of her life, deprived the right to feed her own babies, but humans) contributing her last drop of milk to feed human sentient beings' adults and babies, shall not be rewarded like this before sent to the slaughter-house !

They need RESPECT and LOVE like us too At least in their last moment This is why i need to end this cruel world — with Rasanjana Mendis.


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Charles Barnard I'd point out that this is AT the slaughterhouse, and an extremely illegal operation it was. It is not the endorsed end of life for any animal.
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Crystal Huang Dear Chuck, thank for pointing out this photo that was happening at the slaughter house before she was done her last contribution to the human society - meat/commercials or pet food products...
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Let's celebrate the International Female Sentient Beings' Day???!!! For example, a cow (yes, a female - a productive working mother- all of her life, deprived the right to feed her own babies, but humans) contributing her last drop of milk to feed human sentient beings' adults and babies, shall not be rewarded like this before sent to the slaughter-house !
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Crystal Huang In fact, I have learned to refrain myself not to post disturbing photos per some of my fb friends' requests. I chose this one for its less-disturbing effect...
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March 8 (Sa), 2014 Crystal's serendipitous teaching-learning-sharing #23: How am I celebrating the 100th International Women's Day?!



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Happy the 100th International Women's Day! (Born on March 8th, 1914) beginning with the struggle against prejudice and reactionary attitudes that denied the basic human rights and full civic rights to women...



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Crystal Huang About the above photo: has been applied to my Diversity, Sociology and Psychology of HR classes very often.
The the poster below : German poster for International Women's Day, March 8th, 1914; English translation: “Give Us Women’s Suffrage. Women’s Day, March 8, 1914. Until now, prejudice and reactionary attitudes have denied full civic rights to women, who as workers, mothers, and citizens wholly fulfill their duty, who must pay their taxes to the state as well as the municipality. Fighting for this natural human right must be the firm, unwavering intention of every woman, every female worker. In this, no pause for rest, no respite is allowed. Come all, you women and girls, to the 9th public women’s assembly on Sunday, March 8, 1914, at 3pm.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women's_Day

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Mahesh Vangala Crystal we have both sides of the coin n happy womens day, thank q.
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Pedagogial recipes- sharing#5 Story telling- 3 Women's Stories to echo 2014 International Women's Day!

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Crystal Huang Thanks, Angie's sharing =^.^= !

Crystal Huang The Lion Daddy says to his first meet kids - Don't bother me- Roar, Roar!!!! I am busy in observing the International Women's Day ! - Per your mom's command =^.^= !!
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WATCH: Lion Cub Triplets Meet Their Dad For The First Timewww.huffingtonpost.com
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Crystal Huang Women at the forefront of the struggle. Washington, DC, 1963.


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Pedagogical recipes- sharing#5... Story telling is one of the effective teaching-learning activities that I use often, in particular, my current Diversity f2f class. Both my Sociology and Diversity courses will cover Gender Stratification and Psychology of Human Relations which will allude to Gender/Sexuality and Expressions. A an unabashed Guinea Pig as usual for my classes, I will start sharing one of my favorite stories (In fact, titled '3 Women's Stories') which was a talk given at an AAUW Conference held at South Dakota (Mrs. Daschle was the keynote, photo attached) of something happening before from my reminiscence and observations to echo 2014 International Women's Day!

Here it goes:

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 (From left to right: S.Q Yang, Linda Daschle, Tom Daschle, Xena Crystal LC Huang)

Dear Friends of AAUW,

First of all, I would like to thank you for the fantastic job you have done to open my eyes as a brand new member. Then, I want to thank Kathleen who introduced and encouraged me to join this big family, so I have this opportunity to learn from you. Peg picked us from the airport along the way to the conference that made me feel so welcomed. Cheryl and Rusty, thanks for the email connection and the sincere help to make this trip possible. Finally, I want to show my appreciation to your Mayor who sang a wonderful song for us. I won’t forget his wonderful voice. Please promise to say our thanks to him.

I was amazed to know that AAUW was 121 years young. 121 years is equivalent to my grandma, my mother, me, plus my nieces’ generation together. During that century, when AAUW had accomplished so many great jobs to encourage /help girls and women to reach their potential, what did my grandma, and mother do? And what about my generation and nieces’ are doing? So, I decided to tell three women’s stories from Taiwan.

Once upon a time, a little girl was born in Taipei, Taiwan, 19xx. Her name is Amei-a. When she was a young girl, she told her mom that she would like to be an artist, ballerina, poet, and diplomat (a sidebar sharing quite relevant to the stories: an anecdote for how to be nice and encouraging :)! - An elementary teacher Mr. 呂芳德 kindly flattered Amei-a's teacher Ms. 吳隆香 when they were at 螢橋國小 Yin-Chao Elementary School about a 小時了了entertaining message. He said that this girl, Amei-a would be the President of Taiwan in the future!!! Haha, how wonderful and kind of him - both the teacher and Amei-a were quite happy to hear that because the candidates of the future Vice President,  the future Secretary of each Department, and the rest of important Rank and File could be found in this class at that time, too :)! :D! :)!). This is the first story of the three.

So, you can see, most of her interests seemed relating to feminine fields. But think about it, such a young girl was hardly qualified to be enlightened as a young "feminist" during 19xxs in Taiwan. The possibility of being a female computer scientist or engineer was equivalent to the cats in “A Room of One’s Own” wanting to go to heaven.

Since talking about cats, which the bishop commented in the Virginia Woolf’s article, Amei-a needed to confess that she had not read it when she was young. If she had known that she needed a room of her own with CASH to be herself, she dared not to tell her mom about her ridiculously daydreaming wannabe. Furthermore, if she had learned earlier about John Adams’ famous remarks, she dared not to have made such “Enormously Unrealistic” wishes within her own social stratum (yes, plainly speaking - a very "challenging social class"). Adams once said “ Because of my father’s hard-working, so I can study military and politics, so my sons can learn law and engineering, thus my grandsons can be artists or poets,” something like that…. You see, what an interesting statement that truly stimulated her brain to tick!

First of all, it is all about men- the father, himself, the sons, and the grandsons. Where were the great-grandma, grandma and the mother, the daughters and daughters-in-law, and the “Shakespeare’s sisters”? Secondly, it lets her think, how wonderful or how lucky it could be if she had had a father similar to the Adams’!

Finally, darn it, she is not a son, but another Shakespeare’s-sister-could-be!

Since she has mentioned "father", let her just quickly and briefly introduce her father (though we are talking about women, without men, women's stories would have been much more different??). She needs to be objective and neutral toward her father who passed away several years ago. Her father was born in 1910 during the Japanese occupation. Putting in this way, let us recall a movie, maybe you have seen it- “The Last Emperor.” It was the last Sino-Japanese war of the last dynasty, the Qing was defeated and gave away Taiwan to Japan. From 1985 to 1945, Taiwanese people were like orphans suddenly tossed away to a foreign regime that strategically ruled her (both repressive and assuaging tactics) for half of a century. Some relevant information can be find in a grad paper of mine: https://ci8395.blogspot.com/2012/08/pedagogy-of-oppressed-vs-oppressors-and.html
Amei-a's father was forced to have 4 years’ Japanese elementary (one of the main reasons was to uproot the culture heritage) education which was all he could attend. Such a "privilege" given to him perhaps, he was born with a desirable gender.

To save time for the key stories, I would skip her father's, and go into the second one. It is about Amei-a's mother. Born during the Japanese’s colonization, like most of the poor women, she was encouraged to have as many children as possible. The "reproductive machines” were highly demanded to produce more workers, and soldiers for Japan’s military expansion needs. Her mother did have 10 children. According to the comparative advantage, and since some education would damage the womb (a popular theory advocated by Edward Clarke, 1873), her mother, and women of her generation were deprived of the opportunities of education. So, she could not read, nor write. Although she was a so-called “illiterate”, she insisted that children should have an education.” “Children should have an education” is equivalent to “people need to breathe, to eat, and to drink” in today’s society. So what’s new about it?

Now, again the story needs to be situated in the historical context (for detailed conditions, refer to my thesis: A Multi-Level Analysis of 228 Social Movement (A Massacre) of 1947 in Taiwan, deposited in the General Library of UW-Madison, 1993). Among her peers, education to women is like a camel wanting to go through the needle’s eye. Just taking a look at her contemporaries dealing with their daughters, you can imagine how noble an idea Amei-a's mother had!  Among
Amei-A's mother loved her children very much. Those young girls’ horrifying nightmares had never happened to Amei-A's female siblings. However, her eldest sister (Akiko 秋子- a name with the "legacy" of Imperial Japan's occupation on Taiwan) had to sacrifice herself to help out the family. Right after graduating from elementary school, at that young age, she worked at textile factories as a weaver- a very popular and booming industry at that time during the Second Wave of Globalization marching through Taiwan. She worked till the day she had to marry according to the social norm with a chronic occupational lung-disease (I guess, the horrible working condition that she endured). As to Amei-a, she realized how important money was to her family. She always had a strong desire to please her mom to soothe mother's constant anxiety of family financial stress. She worked many tiny jobs starting from elementary school days. Two bigger and significant jobs she had among them were the multinational corporate company’s branches in Taipei. One was the Max Factor Cosmetic Inc., (this was where she got her watery-pinky eyes from those power particles when she hand-made the cosmetic compacts as an elementary school kid), and the other one was an International Traveling Bags Manufacturing Company. She recalled taking with her younger sister Lei-gin working at those difficult working conditions to earn 3-8 cents per hour. No such a word -"child laborers” existed at that time, not to mention the Child Labor Laws ever been heard off, because children were assets, not liabilities when a time deemed the carefree childhood being an unimaginable luxury! Kathleen just now mentioned the positive and negative sides of Globalization (not Internationalization), I think her female siblings are good witnesses to those-days of sweet-bitterness!

Definitely, Amei-a's female siblings did contribute efforts to the stage of the for-better-and-for-worse Globalization processes (yes, the Rampant Free Trade in love with the Dominated Free Markets :)! And they were those little Free Souls with the ABSOLUTE FREE CHOICE UNDER THE FREE WILL to enjoy THE tiny $ents happily earned to lift up the global big boats :D!) in Taiwan, and were also part of the legend in establishing the famous MIT Kingdom (Made In Taiwan-yup, still remember that??? -  the buzzword of 亞洲四曉龍- the four Far-Eastern Burgeoning Dragons???) with unimaginable joy (tiny yet significant money) and sacrifice (terrible working conditions). Male siblings even born in a humble background still could get enough attention and protection from the mother and nurturing from sisters. For example,  Amei-a reminisced that she received many kinds of nowadays' TV Survivors or early gender-bootcamp (油蔴菜籽) training unconsciously, such as doing all family laundry by hands, working in the factory, bringing money home, keeping brothers’ rooms tidy, being a hard-working and obedient nice girl...and so on so forth when she was a very little girl who was cultural, ideologically, and genderly socialized to stay put (認命). She and her sisters took turns to do cooking and cleaning. But, the most terrible nightmare of hers at that time was when she was in high school which was a very competitive one (the Taipei Municipal First Girls’ Senior High School). Every day, she anxiously saw her classmates (indeed, some of them were her strong competitors :) ), going to expensive cramming schools after class for another 2-3 hours' extra home assignment drills and preparation, so they could do well on next day’s quizzes/exams and kept very competitive in class, while she had to go to families hiring her to tutor their children so she could bring some money home. You can imagine, after family chores, tutoring jobs, school works, there was not so much time to prepare for the next day’s challenges in school. But fortunately, thanks to gods, buddhas, Allah, and all sorts of almighty powers' blessings, through those events, she got the chances to keep her head above the water :)! Who says that “Things that cannot break you, make you stronger,” indeed! WHO could deny the fact that Amei-a is  A luckily CHOSEN ONE - to survive pretty well - so far :D!

Now, recalling those proper challenges that Amei-a had, she realizes how fortunate she has been and how much the blessing and privileges that she had compared to her eldest siblings' (merely by the random birth order- because her eldest brother and sister had to bear much of family responsibility and took care of the younger siblings- She could not imagine if she were born into her eldest brother and sisters' situations, and how lucky she was that she escaped that birth-order-Ascribed-trap, and witnessed some of her early childhood female classmates who had to drop out of the elementary school to help out their families.

(Note- sociology jargon: an ascribed status is a social position obtained by birth, such as race, sex, birth order, family background/social class, cultural capitals endowed...and so on, or involuntarily acquired later in life- mainly, statues without choices, compared to the achieved status which is based on birth and later efforts by choice. Both can go positive and negative ways.)

Now I had better quickly jump to the third woman’s story. I am running out of time. She was a wet-nanny. A wet-nanny, mainly, a woman living in poverty, who saved her milk to nurture other families’ babies for whose mother could not or did not want to nurse/raise them. Thus the nanny would be called in to breast-feed/nurse the baby and earned the service fees. The third story was also relating to Amei-a's mother. Her biological grandma died right after giving birth to her mom. You know at that time, woman’s partition was similar to put one of her legs into the casket (just recalling the horrifying and ordeal that Mary Wollstonecraft had been through for such a tragedy!) It was a 50-50 % chance to survive for most of the babies and the mothers (and most of us focusing on how high the infant mortality rate could be. What about the life-risking mothers' ??) . The grandpa had to marry a widow with 4 children of her own. He witnessed the abusive behaviors of the step-mom toward the little baby – Amei-a's mom, thus he decided to save the baby’s life by sending her to the wet-nanny’s house and paid her some meager fees. In the long run, Amei-a's mother decided not to go back to the step-mother's and stayed with the nanny's family.

The nanny (she called grandma at that time) had 7 surviving children, three boys, and four girls. Each time she gave birth a baby, if boy, she kept him, if not, she would arrange to sell or give away the female infants (named with gender derogation, such as 罔腰, 招弟, 一招, 再招 - frequently seen at that time. For more details, refer to my thesis: Social Ideology and Gender roles- Contemporary Women's Issues in Taiwan (社會意識型態與性別角色-論臺灣社會變遷中婦女問題, 1986 ) deposited in the Grad Library of National Taiwan University). Thus, the milk could be saved to nurture other families’ babies. She only kept one girl for family chores and for taking care of other family members. Two of her daughters were sold, and one of them almost ended up in a brothel, whom Amei-a's mother (she became the eldest one in the nanny's family whom the nanny dared not to touch) used all the possible methods to rescue her out of the misery. As to the money the nanny earned, she used to support the whole family. Remember, during Japanese imperialism, Taiwanese men were oppressed, just in a different fashion from women's - no better than the later retreating Nationalist government's domination on Taiwan after War World II, which was another tragically long story.

Now, I hope you won’t be misled by my anecdotal stories about the true face of women in Taiwan during the early 20th century. I wish I would have presented more accurate data about the social condition during those days. But, now, the misery of women has been replaced with a new vitality through a tremendous socio-economic transformation via the availability of educational and occupational opportunities to most of the female citizens: just comparing my current academic and career conditions to my mother’s would be evidence.

So, regarding the generation next to mine, are you curious about it?

Yes, let me tell you, each time I go back to Taiwan, I just could not tell whether my nieces are American girls or Japanese young ladies (Via Global Media penetration and hegemonic hierarchy??)! They enjoyed the tremendous economic affluence in Taiwan. They dyed/highlighted their hair, changed their contact lens by colors, and dressed up like post-Modern girls or Westerners with all sorts of fancy stuff and electronic gadgets that make their auntie Crystal look like a modern pumpkin. They just want everything that the affluent societies have and enjoy! They are experiencing the fourth stage of Rostow’s economic development model- the “high consumption era.”

The trajectory of women’s development in many societies has striking similarities reflecting her specific socio-economic conditions and the cultural ideology. That's why it is important for women from different cultures, nations, races, and classes to get together to share our female experiences.

Taiwan presents a wonderful case study for women striving for justice among developing countries in the 20th and 21st centuries. The history of the development of women in Taiwan was young but impressive. The female grass-roots movements have generated more than 50 NGOs (non-government organizations) to fight for women's rights. Via 30 years’ empowerment of education, women’s movements led by the well educated middle-class women and their relevant associations have accomplished the following major successes legislatively, economically and politically a decade ago:

1. Taiwan had the first female Vice President in Far Eastern Asia, elected in 2000,
    and the first female Presidential candidate running against two males with a narrow
    the margin of loss in January 2012;

2. passed the Equal Rights, Equal Pays Law;

3. amended several family laws to protect single parent and divorced women; and

4. passed the Civil Liberty Union Law that same-sex can legally marry and is protect by the law.

In conclusion, could you believe that giving a man a thriving opportunity, he might save and build a country, but giving a woman a proper opportunity to develop her potential, she might keep a nation healthy and bring up the future kind, compassionate, and productive generations to come? This might be one of the main reasons we say that to measure a civilization is not by the amount of its GDP or GNP, but by assessing how children, women (and, yes, its animals) are treated?????

Due to time constraints, the statistic data relating to the changing socio-economic statuses of women in Taiwan will be shown through the slides/PowerPoint presentation! Thanks for all of your attention and patience.

Crystal Curriculum Vitae

Crystal Li-chin Huang is a bilingual writer, folksong enthusiast, and visual arts/social science educator with a background in learning technology. Through her work, she offers poetic, socio-cultural critiques in her signature one-page-snippet format.

Teaching Experience:

Fall 2003 to Spring 2020, faculty professor, teaching Art Appreciation, American Government, Diversity Studies, Psychology, Sociology, and Social Problems via multiple delivery formats (course designer and facilitator for the face to face, online, hybrid, ITV -Youth Option, Web-conference, and Accelerated/Evening alternative methods) at Chippewa Valley Technical College. (During the above teaching career, I also completed my terminal degree in 2015 through being a part-time student for 10 years. This could be an answer to some friends' curiosity why I did not teach at the 4-year college? In fact, students and I have some similarity regarding SES at the 2-year college environment that sustains my teaching enthusiasm.)

Spring 2000 to spring 2003, Lecturer, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Stout

95-97, TA at Wayne State College, NE

1. Taught “Introduction to Visual Arts” sections
2. Assisted Design and Painting studio courses
3. Conducted workshop for Information Literacy and Library Automated System

Professional Experience:

2000 to 2003,
adviser of Undecided Student Advisement Program, UW-Stout

1999 to 2000, program coordinator at the Undecided Student Advisement Office,

College of Arts and Sciences, UW-Stout

Nov.1997 to Jan.1999, Computer Layout Specialist in the Composing Department and

lifestyle columnist in the Editorial Department of the Dunn County News, Menomonie, WI

1992-93, library assistant, UW-Madison

Civil Servant:

1. Supervisor, the Supervisory Committee of the Congressional Aide Association of the Legislative Yuan (首屆立法院國會助理協會監委 Congress of Taiwan), Taipei

Job including: coordinating election campaigns, Congressional speech writing and serving constituencies.
(問政質詢總主筆, 競選文宣策劃, 選民服務)

2. Executive Secretary and member of Taipei Women Rescue Foundation (台北婦女救援會執行長)

3. Taiwan-China policy researcher at the Executive Yuan (研究考核委員會/大陸工作會報 - 陸委會前身 of the Central Government), Taipei

4. Journalist at the Ta Hwa Evening News, Taipei.

5. Cultural/English tour guide at the Ministry of
Transportation, Taipei, Taiwan. (交通部導遊 英語組)

6. Military educator, and English/Japanese instructor.

Education:

(Luckily, I won a full scholarship to study abroad through a nation-wide competition in 1990, Taipei, Taiwan.)

Ph.D. Learning Technologies (previous Instructional Systems and Technology) , Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
明尼蘇達大學科技教育研究所博士

Dissertation: Preferences, Pedagogical Strategies,
and Challenges of Instructors Teaching in Multiple Delivery Formats within A 2-Year College Context

M.S. Ed., Art Education, Wayne State College, Nebraska with a minor in Computer Science.
Research Project: Integrating Multimedia Technology into Art Curriculum with Classroom Implementation, 1997.
偉恩大學美術教育研究所碩士

M.S. Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Major: Social Psychology focusing on Social Movements
Minors: Journalism and Women's Studies. Thesis Title: Multilevel Analysis of A Social Movement-1947, 228 Social Uprising in Taiwan, 1993.
威斯康辛大學社會研究所碩士

M.S. Socio-political Science (the Graduate Institute of National Development), National Taiwan University. Thesis: Social Ideology and Gender Roles- Women's Issues in Contemporary society, 1986.
臺灣大學國家發展研究所碩士

Special Training. Major: Military Education. Political Warfare Academy, Army of Taiwan (due to a national crisis, I joined the Army Academy).
國防部政治作戰學院

B.A. Sociology, National Taiwan University.
臺灣大學社會

Taipei Municipal First Girls' High School.
北一女

Areas of Interests

Innovation in Online Education Programs

TPACK Integration of Emerging Technologies

Equity and Quality of Diverse Learning in the Digital Age

Learning Technologies in the post-secondary educational setting

Interdisciplinary collaborative (Education, Social Science, and Technologies) Learning

Skills

Interpersonal, enthusiastic, and helpful with strong work ethics

Multiple language ability: Taiwanese, Mandarin, English, and Japanese

Have taken computer science as a minor (2001-2003).
Knowledgeable of C++, JAVA, Assembly language and Web Design
CMS/LMS: BlackBoard, WebCT, E360, Moodle, Joomla.

General Software application: Multi-aid, QuarkXpress, Pagemaker.

2010,Hyperstudio, Inspiration and variety of social media applications

Authorize tools: Macromedia (DreamWeaver, and Flash)
Web 3.0, Blog 2.0., Cloud Computing,
Photoshop/Photodeluxe, Premiere, Illustrator

PC and Mac proficiency

Visual-art making (2-D: Calligraphy; drawing, traditional ink/painting and mixed media;
3-D: mainly, ceramics and other mixed media

Trained quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods

Statistic software: Spssx, MaxQDA2, and Minitab

Certificates:

Canvas/E360/BlackBoard/WebCT/Joomla - LMS (Learning management system) Teaching Certificates from UW-Stout and CVTC

Hybrid/blended and Web-conference training Certificates from CVTC

Quality Matters Certified Peer-Reviewer

Web Design and ITV Certificates from UW-Stout

General and Special Higher Civil Service Certificates from Taiwan

Academic Activities and Professional Development

Research, Papers, Posters, Projects, publications, and Professional Development


Book

1993, Title :The February 28, 1947 Uprising in Taiwan:
A Multi-leveled Analysis of Collective Actions Author Li-Chin (Crystal) Huang
Publisher: University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1993
Digitized Feb 19, 2008. Length 172 pages

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89048376008;view=1up;seq=12

2004, Title: The Wonder of Tao: A Meditation on Spirituality and Ecological Balance.
Author: James Eggert.
Illustrations and Calligraphy by Li-chin (Crystal) Huang
Green Dragon Publishing. Printed in the United States of America and
the United Kingdom.

2018 Title: A Mystic Flow. Poems.
Publisher: Xena Crystal LC Huang

https://www.bookemon.com/flipread/777800/mystic-flow-from-sun-sun

Theses/Dissertation

2015, Dissertation: Preferences, Pedagogical Strategies,and Challenges of Instructors Teaching in Multiple Delivery Formats within A 2-Year College Context. Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, Learning Technologies (previous Instructional System and Technology), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

1997, Thesis Research Project: Integrating Multimedia Technology into Art Curriculum with Classroom Implementation. Wayne State College.

1986, Thesis: Social Ideology and Gender Roles- Women's Issues in Contemporary society. Socio-political Science (the Graduate Institute of National Development), National Taiwan University.

Research Papers/Publications, Posters, and Projects

2017, Internationalizing the Curriculum Conference, Panelist, 2017

Apr 13, 2017 publication description Crystal Li-chin Huang Learning-Teaching-Sharing Blog

Title: “The Voice of Faculty and Staff”

2012, title: Integrate Learning Technologies into A Social Science Course-Race, Ethnicity and Diversity Studies
https://drive.google.com/?utmmedium=et&utm_source=about&utm_campaign=et-about%23my-drive
Presented at the 28th Distance Teaching and Learning Conference
at UW-Madison, Aug, 2012.
Paper published in the Conference proceedings. https://drive.google.com/?utm_medium=et&utm_source%20=about&utm_campaign=et-about%23recent

2012, Project Presentation- STEMSS
Project presentation to the future- STEM scientists for the local district.
https://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?trk=nav_responsive_sub_nav_edit_profile

2009, Title: “What is the Lived Experience of Designing and Teaching Multiple Delivery Methods -Live Meeting, Hybrid, Online, and Face To Face (f2f) within a Semester at a Technical College Setting”?
Paper presented at the 2009 AECT International Convention, Louisville, KY
Published in the Convention Proceedings, and in the ERIC
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED511355.pdf

2009, Title: Learning Information Technologies as Empowering Tools to Narrow the Gender Gap in the Rural-Urban Spectrum - a Review from Global to Domestic Perspective (Project Leader: Dr. Susan Walker)
Paper presented at the 2009 AECT International Convention, Louisville, KY
Published in the Convention Proceedings, and in the ERIC
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED511355.pdf

2008, Title: Beauty and Artistic Beauty
Presented at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/XenaCrystalLCHuang-A

2008, Title: Green and Dao
“The Wonder of the Tao-Six Meditation on Science, Spirit,
and the Future of Economics”
Presented at University of Minnesota- Twin Cities, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/XenaCrystalLCHuang-B

2008, Title: Freedom Writers
Presented at University of Minnesota- Twin Cities, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/XenaCrystalLCHuang-C

The next 5 research projects, due to my job descriptions (mainly, as hired in a Non-Research Institution of a 2-year college setting, the dir. of professional development (a male) at that time/2010, informed me that the school budget supported attendees, but not the researcher-presenters), I was unable to attend/present to the following conferences.

2015, Research proposal: Title:
“How Could It Be, Two Identical Online Deliveries in One Composite, and One Did So Well,
While the Other… , accepted by Association of Educational Communication and Technologies (AECT) for presentation
at the 2015 International Conference.

2010, Research proposal. Title:
“Struggles and Triumphs– A Female Minority Social Science
Instructor’s Reflection on Sociology Web-conference Course in
Facilitating Disadvantaged Learners”,
accepted by Association of Educational Communication and
Technologies (AECT) for a presentation
at the 2015 International Convention.

2010, Research proposal: Title:
“From Quantity to Quality - Quality Matters! But, What and How Does It Matter?
– Pursuing Online Courses Quality Assurance One Step at
A Time!” accepted by the Association of Educational
Communication and Technologies (AECT)
for a presentation at the 2015 International Convention.

2010, Research proposal. Title:
“Live Meeting: Web-conference Triumph in Sociology Course
facilitation”, accepted by the League of Innovation for a
presentation at the 2010 Maryland Conference.

2010, Research proposal. Title:
“Constructing a Bio-ecological System of Teaching and Learning Environment for 2-year College”, accepted by the League of Innovation 2010 Maryland Conference

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2008, Quantitative Research Project. Title:“Do The Knowledge Of Using The Internet And The Annual Income Level Affect The Total Life Skill Assessments Of Rural Low Income Mothers”? University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (as part of my collaborative research projects)

2008, Co-presenter: The 16th Midwest Quality Research Conference
Topic: “The Lived Experience of Relocated Teachers in Korea”,
at St. Thomas University.

2008, Co-presenter: “A Brief Introduction to the Multimedia
Enhancer” at UW-Stout.

2008, Co-presenter: “A Mini-presentation: A brief of CMS”
at UW-Stout

2007-8, Collaborative Research Project: Joined the “Rural
Families Speak”
– A Multistate, Longitudinal and Multidisciplinary research
project, focusing on low-income women’s using information
technology, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.

2007, research project presentation. Title: “Reflection on the Pedagogies of the Oppressor and the
Oppressed”, at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

2007 The Four Asian Dragons.
Presented at Professor Husby's International Business program http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/lchuang-229189-4-dragons-new-entertainment-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ppt-powerpoint/

2006, Research paper: Exploration of PCTMK Model of Hybrid Teaching.
Published as an Op-Ed in the Dunn County News.

2004, Collaborative project.
Assisting professor emeritus Jim Eggert as a translator and
illustrator of the Book-
“The Wonder of the Tao- A Meditation on Spirituality &
Ecological Balance”. FL: Brumby Holding, Inc.

2004, Panelist, UW-System Women's Study Consortium
Topic: “A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of Childless
Issues in Contemporary American Society”, at UW-Stout.

2003, Keynote speaker:
Annual Spring Awards and Recognition of Multicultural Student Services at UW-Stout.

2003, Presenter, “A Cultural Sojourner's ‘Courage to teach’ in
Intro-Sociology”, at UW-Stout.

2002, Poster presentation, Student and Faculty Research Day:
”An Action Research Report on a Spontaneous Thematic
Pedagogy in Intro-Sociology”, at UW-Stout.

2002, Panelist- International Forum
AAUW Midwest Regional Conference Presentation:

1.“The Trajectory of Women's Transformation via Education
- 3 Women's Stories”, at Rapid City, South Dakotahttp://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/lchuang-1577072-mini-cultural-presentation-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20calligraphy/mini-cultural-presentation- calligraphy/

2. Story-tellinghttp://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/lchuang-224205-3-women-stories-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gender-presentation1-education-ppt-powerpoint/

2001, Teaching Day Display,
“Sociological Pedagogy-Blending Teaching Strategy to Empower Student Active Learning”, at UW-Stout.

2001, Presenter, Professional Development Day:
“Enhancing Active Teaching/Learning Via Electronic application” at UW-Stout.

2001, Research paper:
“A Thematic Approach of Teaching Sociology during September
11th Crisis”, accepted to the Midwest Sociologist Conference

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2014 Diversity Pedagogical Project
-The Gettysburg Address recorded in English, Mandarin,
and Taiwanese http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR4PZFwrj-hN3un6lZg_ADXauCGe7JCCy

Affiliations /Associations

American Education and Research Association (AERA)

Association for Educational Communications and Technologies (AECT)

International Society for Technology Education (ISTE)

Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE)

Wisconsin Association for Career and Technical Education (WACTE)

National Educational Computing Conference (NECC)

CVACTE, EDUTOPIA

American Sociological Association.

Member of American Association of University Women (AAUW)

Governance Involvements

Executive Secretary of Li-ling Huang Gender Equity Memorial Endowment at Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC). (2016 to present).

Sponsor of the Tsai-Huang Memorial Endowment Scholarship at CVTC. (2007 to present).

Adviser of Art Club at CVTC (2016 to present).

Adviser of Diversity Student Organization at CVTC (2011-2013).

Co-chair of Professional Development Committee of
Chippewa Valley Technical College Career and Technical Education Association (2009-2011).

Chair of the Chippewa Valley Technical College Education Association Scholarship Foundation (2010 to present).

CVACTE Event/Year Book Coordinator (2010-11).

Representative of ALC (Academic Leadership Council –WTCS).

Representative to the Advisory Committees of Renal Dialysis, Surgical Technician programs.

Course representative of Art Appreciation and Diversity Studies.

Nominations and Awards


2019, nominated to the Teaching Excellent Award at Chippewa Valley Technical College.


2013, nominated to the Teaching Excellent Award at Chippewa Valley Technical College.

2010, nominated to the Teaching Excellent Award at Chippewa Valley Technical College.

2006, nominated and the recipient of the Regional Outstanding Teacher of Chippewa Valley Technical College.

2001, nominated and the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to UW-System and Women of Color representing UW-Stout in 2001.

Activities in Taiwan

1989-1990 Taiwan-China policy researcher at the Executive Yuan

(大陸工作會報兩岸政策研究員 - 陸委會前身
Central Government), Taipei.


- 1988: Elected as the Supervisor
of the National Congressional Assistant Association, Taipei.
(首屆國會助理協會監委)

- 1987-88: Delegate of Taiwan, invited

by both Congresses of Taiwan and the U.S. to observe the

Primaries and Causes in New Hampshire and Iowa as well as

followed the Presidential campaign trails.

- 1985-88

1. Journalist at the Ta Hwa Evening News, Taipei.

2. Cultural/English tour guide at the Ministry of
Transportation, Taipei, Taiwan.

3. Twice Campaign Coordinator and Speaker, and later,

the Speech Writer in the Congress.
(問質詢總主筆, 競選文宣策劃, 選民服務)

4. Executive Secretary and member of Taipei
Women Rescue Foundation.
(台北婦女救援會執行秘書長)


1985-87 Congressional aide at the Legislative Yuan

(首屆立法院 國會助理 Congress of Taiwan), Taipei


Job including: coordinating election campaigns,

Congressional speech writer (質詢總主筆)
and serving constituencies.


- 1984-85: Summer and Winter Camp Speaker. (奉派執行冬令夏令營巡迴演講)


Previous career:

Military educator, and English/Japanese instructor at
Chung-San girls' High School, Chung-Sing University,
Taipei-Tech College, and Chang-Shu high school.

Others:

Grad Student Activities:

College and Graduate School at National Taiwan University

- Vice Chairperson

of the Graduate Association of National Taiwan University.

- Due to a National Crisis, I joined the Army Academic.
A retired Captain since 1985.

- Four semesters top 3% students of Sociology Department,

National Taiwan University.

- Selected, members of softball and volleyball varsity teams,
National Taiwan University.

Non-Academic Publications/Writing:

· Calligrapher and illustrator

of The Wonder of the Tao-Six Meditation on Science, Spirit,

and the Future of Economics by Jim Eggert.

A Human Trade Group Publisher, FL., 2004.

· Karma Ode, Burning Snow-Poetry, 2002, (in process).

· "Introductory Miao (Hmong) History and Culture by Tinqgui Li":

Translation,(collaborated with Steve Vang.) Wisconsin, UW-Stout. 2001.

· A Comprehensive History of the Chinese Miao (Hmong) by Xingfue Vue.

Translation. (collaborated with Steve Vang.), Wisconsin, UW-Stout, 2001.

· 10 articles related to cultural phenomena
for the Dunn County News, 1998-1999:

1. A thought to the Humane Society.

2. Homeopathy- a look from a tradition medical perspective.

3. The sociocultural perspective to Mulan.

4. Gua Sha-the traditional home remedy.

5. Halloween in the U.S. vs. Ghost Festival in Asia.

6. Organic products and its co-op practice.

7. Bosnia first hand report-Military sisters.

8. A cultural-sojourner's multicultural perspective.

9. Mini international house-visit the "Sharon the ambassador".

10.The legends behind Chinese New Year in Taiwan.

Selected writing/proposals as A Congressional Aide:

· “Women and Social Order,”

The Research and Assessment Monthly, Taipei, Taiwan, 1990.

· “The Interpellation to the Central Government”

- a compilation of 3 volumes (300 articles) relating to social welfare

and political system reformation drafted by me when working at

Congress,1986-88.

Some articles related to Women's issues are:

1. A proposal for "Equal Right, Equal Pay and Equal Opportunity of Employment

for both genders." September 29th,1987, the 80th session Legislative Yuan.

2. A proposal to Establish the "'Ministry of Women's Affairs'

to implement the Social Welfare for Women."

January 6th, 1988, the 80th, session, Legislative Yuan.

3. An interpellation on the issue of the Dilemma of

Single Parent and Divorced Women. January 19th,

1988.the 80th session, Legislative Yuan.

4. An interpellation on the issue of "the Myth of Marriage and

Increasingly Dysfunctional Families in contemporary society."

January 18th, 1987, the 80th session, Legislative Yuan.

· Personal Quantitative Research Project:

"Gender and Political Tolerance-The Study of Dane County,

Wisconsin." UW-Madison, 1992.

Hobbies

Enjoy reading, writing, poetry, music, cooking, visual art-making, nature and pet-caring.

Like to play basketball, ping pong, volleyball, tennis, softball, swimming, and hiking.

Li-chin (Crystal) Huang


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