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Dali, Yunnan, China

The Education Annex was established to serve as a rural base for educational programs. We have restored and repurposed an important heritage complex that can accommodate up to 30 students and teachers. Additionally, it has two large classrooms, a library, dining hall, music room, TV/activity center, and outdoor gardens. The Annex is home to programs as diverse as Sidwell Friends (Presidents Obama and Clinton's children's school) semester program, Shanghai American School's Microcampus: four monthlong academic immersion in the small village of Xizhou, graduate classes with Indiana University and Middlebury College, and one-two weeklong summer and winter camps that focus on Filmmaking, Creative Writing, Architecture, Environment, and Traditional Chinese Literati Culture. Our programs are all mentored by international and domestic experts in their respective fields. The Annex has expanded to Suzhou and now hosts similar programs only an 80 minute drive from Shanghai.

Yunnan And Suzhou, China

The Linden Centre (www.linden-centre.com) is an American-owned, award-winning boutique hotel offering the intrepid traveler a true immersion into authentic China. Guests reside in an expansive and luxurious courtyard home in Xizhou, a pristine village in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province. The facility is a nationally protected heritage site that has been restored to its former dynastic elegance. In the foothills of the Himalayas, guests enjoy a year-round spring climate and direct access to rich, undisturbed cultures in a true melting pot of the region. •TripAdvisor - #1 out of 30,000+ reviewed hotels in China, Traveler's Choice Award 2011•Travel & Leisure - Global Vision Award 2010•Sina Travel - Best Boutique Inn 2010•Voyager magazine's China Sustainable Tourism Award 2010

China

We purchased and restored an old Frank Lloyd Wright-style church in one of the Midwest's most popular tourist destinations. For 23 years, we worked with collectors, museums, and universities to develop and host exhibitions of Asian artwork, crafts, and antiques to showcase the beauty and richness of this region to the middle of America. We hosted hundreds of exhibitions ranging from Japanese 17th-century ceramics, Han Dynasty funerary objects, vintage textiles from Indonesia and Thailand, to contemporary paintings from China. We sold the business to dedicate our lives full time to China.

San Francisco Bay Area

Managed expansion of internet-based education platforms to the world. Left to focus on our China projects.

San Francisco Bay Area

Managed international education projects in over 75 countries, including the development of international schools in Central Europe, distance learning programs in Asia, and the creation of language schools in South America,. Left in 1995 to focus on the development of our cultural exchange platform in America's Midwest.

Ma And Abd, History And Economics

Activities and Societies: Helped manager Bechtel International Center activitiesFocused on Chinese and Japanese economic history.

Sinology

Ms, Asian Studies

Activities and Societies: Focused on 20th century China's views of the role of art in society. Traced changes from late Qing views.