Gazette
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March 2002
Yunnan Province hails professor for service in China In connection with the People’s Republic of
China National Day celebration October 1, associate professor of
anthropology Charles “Chas” McKhann traveled to Kunming
to receive the Cai Yun award from the governor of Yunnan Province.
About 10 awards are given each year A 1979 Whitman graduate, McKhann first went to China in 1982 to teach English at Yunnan University under the Whitman in China exchange program. For the last two decades he has been involved in ethnographic research among the Tibeto-Burman people of northwestern Yunnan. In addition, he has worked to develop academic exchanges between Whitman College, Yunnan University, the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, and other institutions of higher learning in China. |
Chas McKhann, '79, left, was honored
for his service to the people of China. His former student Gan Xuechun,
(Whitman 1994-95), right, is director of Yunnan University's international
exchange programs.
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