Reflection from 1926: Chronological sequence in brief

Francis Shieh aka Xie Shihao. May be searched at www.Google.com as a blogger at www. Sino-American Economics. www.bing.com for reference as well.

1926-32 Random Play as a kid.
1933-37 Studied in Shanghai. Elementary school.
1937-42 Studied in Tianjin. Hautes Etudes.
1942-43 Attended Gonzaga College High School,Shanghai.
1943-46 St. John's University,Shanghai for B.A. degree.
1945-47 Taught at St.Ignatius Loyola College,High School,Shanghai.
1947-48 University of San Francisco as a graduate school with a scholarship.
1948-50 Georgetown University Graduate School for M.A.
1951-52 Farmers Insurance Group,Statistical work in Los Angeles,California.
1953-54 US Army Language School,Monterey, California Mandarin Instructor. US citizenship,1954.
1955-56 Working in New York and touring in New Jersey to start a family.
1956-57 Back to Army Language School. Left due to Reduction-in-force.
1957-58 IBM Accounting work,San Jose,California.
1958-61 Taught economics in Hollywood,Los Angeles,California.
1961-64 Taught economics at Grand Rapids,Michigan.
1964-65 RAND Corporation,Santa Monica,California. Research,Dept. of Economics. Author of "A Glimpse of the Chinese Language" available free at pdf at www.rand.org for information.
1965-66 Surveys and Research, a project for the National Science Foundation: a Directory for American scientists to contact Chinese counterparts.
1966-1984 Taught economics in Maryland. Head,1967-69, Chair,1971-73. Ph.D. 1978. Doctoral dissertation entitled "Work and Study Cycle Theory" listed in the Library of Congress with other 9 works in Economics and China studies. 6 are listed at Georgetown University Library online catalog for information. Author of "The Future of Community Colleges": Congressional Record,July 18, 1974. Economist,US Dept.of Labor:"Keys for Economic Understanding,1971"Keys to Economic Understanding,1976. Useful references for USA and China. www.ask.com for details. Contributed to textbooks by Richard T. Gill of Harvard and George Bach of Stanford University: 9 editions in toto. Cornell University Economist Milton Spencer cited my book in "Contemporary Economics" 1983 edition.
1985-1991 Taught economics at Montgomery College. Fulbright Senior Scholar,Hong Kong,1989-1990. Lectured in Beijing and Shanghai et al as a Fulbrighter for scholarly exchanges.
1992-1993 American Expert at Guangzhou Institute of InternationalTrade.
1993-1996 Foreign Expert in Beijing. Beijing Broadcasting Institute and Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute.
1998-1999 Taught Mandarin at Foreign Service Institute of the State Department.
1999-2000 Suzhou University,Suzhou,China. Suzhou is the home of my paternal ancestor.
2002-2004 Diplomatic Language Services. Taught Mandarin and Wu dialect.
2005-2009 Dictyon.net Taught Mandarin and Shanghainese to advanced students.
2009 to date: Independent Research: blogging at the Base Library as my daily routine.

The above is the highlight in a nutshell. It is fun to move around and meet all kinds of people in the USA and in China as fellow homosapiens on earth.

Saturday,December 12, 2009 at 2.32 p.m.