A Chemistry Teaching Experience in the People's
Republic of China Shih-Fan Ting Millersville State College, Millersville, PA 17551 I spent my sabbatical leave in The People's Republic of China durine the 1980-81 academic vear a t the invitation of the Chinese kcademy of Science. he first five months (one semester in a Chinese universitv) were spent as a visiting professor at Zhejiang university; Hangzh&l I had more or less an institute-like arrangement, lecturing. .physical chem. i e t ry, i~~strnn~enrnl nnnlysis and nu, Ietir magnetic reaonunce ~ L g r < . utheor\. l~ hg c.hvmiitry. hly &is well as 31~plicatiun~ was compo&d of about nineti college teachers with average age of about forty years and drawn from Zhejiang University and other universities all over the country. After five months in Hangzhou, I moved to Wuhan2 during the Chinese New Year Season. I lectured a t the Huhei Institute of Chemistry for six weeks. The topics of my lecture were designed for the research associates of the Institute. They were nuclear magnetic resonance, applications of group theory to chemistry, and modern technioues in analvtical chemistrv. Then I was invited to the Beijing and Tainjin area. I gave two lectures at the Beiiine Institute of Chemistrv and one lecture a t Nankai ~niveriit; Tianjin. On April 1,1981,I returned to the United States. The college teachers who comprised my class at Zhejiang University had their formal college education before the Culturd He\.ulnri
