http://www.hws.edu/news/ Daily Updates from Hobart and William Smith Collegesen-usSun, 22 Nov 2009 02:56:07 GMTSun, 22 Nov 2009 02:56:07 GMThttp://hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=11220Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT<img src="http://hws.edu/dailyUpdate/Resources/Res8424.jpg" alt="" /> Unscrambling Mandarin Chinese sentences into correct ones is not necessarily an early afternoon brainteaser many students would call a good time. But the eight HWS students working in pairs in teaching Associate Yi-Tung Wu's Beginning Chinese 101 language lab this semester, were fully engaged in the exercise, and enjoying the challenge. Not surprising. Their Taiwanese teaching associate -- who like he...http://hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=10893Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT<img src="http://hws.edu/dailyUpdate/Resources/Res7921.jpg" alt="" /> If you look at mended Japanese ceramics, many of their repairs seem "instantly obvious," says Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures James-Henry Holland. But the intricacies of this art form and the ceremonies in which they are involved are anything but plain to the untrained eye. Which is why Holland, a venerated scholar of Japanese language and culture, was one of three experts asked t...