bags for China.

Seated in a small apart-
ment overflowing with books
of every description in piles
on the floor, Burstein does
not look like the
distinguished scholar she is.

But a quick look at her
credentials is more than
enough to convince the
curious that Burstein is a
prime choice for Guangzhou
(Canton) Institute of Foreign
Languages officials seeking
“foreign expert” scholars for
their university.

An English instructor at
Capilano College since it was
first created in 1969, Bur-
stein has her Ph.D. from
Boston University and 25
years of teaching experience
including Boston, University
of North Carolina (Chapel
Hill) and University of
Massachusetts (Amherst).

. Right now, though,
. Burstein has more on her
* mind than her academic
: qualifications as she tries to
pack for a one year, possible
two year, sojourn in China as
a lecturer at the institute.

“It was all a bit of a fluke,”
«she smiles as she glances at
- the chaos that was once a

living room floor. “All the
post-secondary English
departments received

notices last summer that the
Foreign Experts Bureau in
Peking was looking for
teachers.

“I wrote off and received
no word from them until the
end of March, when they
asked ‘if it would be con-
venicnt for me’ to start this
September.

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bit more correspondence
back and forth.”

The lack of correspon-
dence has produced some
curious problems _ for
Burstein. For example, she
doesn’t know if she will be
teaching. graduates or un-
dergraduates, what she'll be
teaching (her specialities are
American and_ British
literature and composition),
how many she'll be teaching,
or even how she'll be
teaching — by lecture or
discussion.

Consequently, guessing as
to which books are most
appropriate to take all the
way to China is about as
scientific as winning the
notorious “Sweep Six”.

“I know Pll need obvious
books like dictionaries,
thesauruses, standard
literary works, but as to the
types of literature and ages I
haven't a clue,” she says. “}
also have no idea what the
library will be like.”

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at least the first year, some
tough decisions have to be
made.

Books are only a small
part of the problem. A major
one will be overcoming
cultural problems English
teachers over here never
think about.

“Ti be teaching students
who don’t have any
background in Western
literature,.a background that
I just assume over here,”
Burstein says. A lot of
allusions will have to be
explained. “TIl have to fill in
on Biblical references,
certainly, and it will have to
be done very delicately
because there is still some
hostility from the students.”

Other puzzles include
figuring out just which
languages are taught at the
nine-language institute. “I’ve
figured out seven of them,
but two have me stumped,”
Burstein grins.

As well as packing
selectively (even though she
doesn’t leave until Aug. 25),
Burstein is learning some
Mandarin Chinese in ad-
vance.

(Although the institute is 5

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