内容简介
本书是潘维廉教授从教厦门大学三十余年的回忆录，记叙了潘维廉教授来到厦门大学，在工作和生活上逐渐适应了厦门大学的环境，在厦门大学管理学院开始了从教生涯，从厦大出发走遍福建甚至环游中国，著书立说成为一名讲好中国故事的人的动人故事。本书是潘维廉教授从教厦门大学三十余年的回忆录，记叙了潘维廉教授来到厦门大学，在工作和生活上逐渐适应了厦门大学的环境，在厦门大学管理学院开始了从教生涯，从厦大出发走遍福建甚至环游中国，著书立说成为一名讲好中国故事的人的动人故事。
目录
PART ONE
6,000 YEARS OF INTERNATIONALIZATION
Chapter 1 No Choice but XMU!
Chapter 2 XMU’s 6,000 Years of Global Heritage
Chapter 3 XMU—Education for the Nation
Chapter 4 Changting XMU Tales
PART TWO
XMU HOLIDAY VILLAGE
Chapter 5 Slow Boat to Xiamen
Chapter 6 Student Life at Holiday Village
Chapter 7 Cafeteria Wars
Chapter 8 Mad About Mandarin
Chapter 9 Wheels in Amoy
Chapter 10 Chinese Dream in 1988
Chapter 11 TVs and Toast
Chapter 12 Vanilla in the Paint Store
Chapter 13 A Big XMU Family for Chinese New Year
PART THREE
SMXMU—PIONEERING MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
Chapter 14 Inexpert Teaching MBAs!
Chapter 15 SMXMU—Business for the Nation
Chapter 16 Everything but Their Wives: Iron Rice Bowl Education
Chapter 17 Merry XMU Christmas
Chapter 18 McChina
Chapter 19 Flowers on Horseback
Chapter 20 Lingfeng—Little House on the Hillside
Chapter 21 XMU Snakes, Fish and Amoy Vampires
Chapter 22 Turning the Tea Table
Chapter 23 Rock Jar Story
Chapter 24 Xiamen Goes Online
PART FOUR
EXPLORING FUJIAN
Chapter 25 Journey to Marco Polo’s Zayton
Chapter 26 The Mythic Port of Zayton—Home of Aladdin?
Chapter 27 Foreign Devils and Friends
Chapter 28 Fujian’s 1st Foreign Green Card
PART FIVE
EXPLORING CHINA
Chapter 29 High Road to Hainan
Chapter 30 Around China in 80 Days
Chapter 31 The Great Wall and Mongolian Time Machine
Chapter 32 Gobi Desert Sand Traps
Chapter 33 Shaanxi Hobbits
Chapter 34 The World’s Highest Highway
Chapter 35 Tibet at Last!
Chapter 36 The Potala Palace
Chapter 37 70 Years of XMU in Tibet!
Chapter 38 The Long Downhill to Amoy
Chapter 39 How XMU Helps Longde Ningxia Achieve the Chinese Dream
Chapter 40 These Are the Magi—Gift-giving in China
PART SIX
THE END, OR NEW BEGINNING?
Chapter 41 Y2K: New Millennium or End of the Road?
Chapter 42 XMU Survival Guide for Foreign Friends, Strangers and Strange Foreigners
Chapter 43 20 Years of Partnering with Xiamen University Press
Chapter 44 Robin Fei Fei—The Best Student I Never Had
Chapter 45 20,000 Kilometers Around China in 2019
Chapter 46 Fujian—Cradle of Targeted Poverty Alleviation
Chapter 47 Precision Epidemic Alleviation—Lessons for the World
Chapter 48 Dismounting the Tiger
作者简介
厦门大学管理学院ONENBA项目教授，是福建省第一个获得中国“绿卡”的外国人，曾获中国政府“友谊奖”、“福建省荣誉公民”、十大“功勋外教”等荣誉。出版了《魅力福建》等十余部英文书籍。
