Approximately 150 people gathered to hear poetry and folk art recitations and singing, enjoy games and sample traditional festival tea and foods at the campus’ Mid-Autumn Festival to celebrate a traditional Chinese holiday.
Juan Wang, an associate professor of foreign linguistics and applied linguistics in the foreign languages department at Xidian University in China, is teaching Mandarin Chinese at Missouri Western for the 2012-13 academic year, and she planned the festival. Students who were in the class in the fall semester presented information about the history of the festival and provided the entertainment.
This is the second year a professor from Xidian University taught at Missouri Western, and an exchange agreement with Xidian was signed last summer.
Missouri Western also has an exchange agreement with Guizhou University in the Guizhou Province of China.
Those who attended the Mid-Autumn Chinese festival sampled Chinese food.