Since 2012, groups of Shanghai American School Grade 8 students have taken four-week journeys to the village of Xizhou in Southwest China's Yunnan Province as participants in the school's Microcampus program. As representatives of their campuses, these students leave the "bubble" of their home city of 22 million people and become immersed in a new community of 2000 people, 2000 kilometers from home, at 2000 meters above sea level.
The Wildfires group--the twenty-third--were in Xizhou from March 9th through April 5th, 2019. Guests from around the world are encouraged to follow their journey--reading about, responding to, and joining in the learning adventure.
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I have narrowed my ideas to religious life of the Bai people. Religion has always been interesting to me. So I think that this topic stuck out to me because I love learning about new religions and being able to contrast them to others. This topic is important to me because I... more
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I considered my topics from Local education system, ethnic minority issues, Bai minority culture, local history, traditional Chinese medicine, economics case studies, tourism/development, wood carving/door making, textile production, local food/cuisine, and landforms/geology. The three topics I... more
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I decided to investigate the Hui Muslims of Xizhou because Islam has always... more
