Multiple entry points to the arts and culture of China

Two ostensibly unrelated journeys are recounted with photocollage and essay in two voices (italics and roman). In one, the author rambled along as a child, acquiring an education in Singapore while exposed to the cultural forces that shaped her educational values and beliefs. She ultimately transformed them into the curriculum design for a new course culminating in a travel-study to China. In the other, she accompanied several US college students on an intellectual and creative trek to explore how art-centred learning can actualize experiential education in travel-study. The co-constructed learning experience was reciprocal and facilitated the author’s personal, cultural and professional identity quest.