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Member of
the ATA Canada Chapter for Toronto, Ontario,
Canada Africa
Adventures and Study Tours provides travellers with
an extensive collection of high-quality yet
affordable travel programs to Morocco, Mali and
Ethiopia. Our long-standing connections with local
people, cultural institutions and travel
professionals in the above countries will gain you
special access and make your trip remarkable. Click
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For
full details, visit: http://www.africaadventures.ca Meet
the company principals Ms
Yue Chi was born in Beijing in the early 1960's and
was brought up in the Russian-influenced city of
Harbin, in China's most northern
province. During
the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76),
her family of academics and business executives was
relocated to a remote village for "re-education".
As a result, her memories of childhood are framed
by images of endless fields of soybean,
snow-covered mud houses, horse-drawn carts and the
Northern star casting ghost like shadows over piles
of red sorghum stems. As
China recovered from the political turmoil in the
late 1970's and the educational system was re-born,
Ms. Chi, in 1980, won a much-prized placement to
major in History at Nankai University in Tianjin, a
port city 2,000 miles from her home. In 1984, she
qualified for post-graduate studies at Beijing
University, where she also received a teaching
appointment in the History Department after
receiving her Masters' Degree in
History. Beijing
University is the largest, oldest and most liberal
university in China, and as such, attracted many
foreign students, scholars and visitors. Yue,
driven by her eagerness to connect with the outside
World, was instrumental in establishing an
educational program for foreigners, the "Chinese
History and Culture Seminar at Beijing University",
to give visitors an appreciation for Chinese
language, history, literature, art, cuisine, music
and lifestyle, far beyond anything that could be
gathered through normal tourist
activities. Since
coming to North America in 1989, Yue has made a
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