not sure about that, but let’s face it, it’ll take a hell of a lot more money to get us integrated here 
Bob wrote:
I got 25 000 NTS a month to cover everything. It was the same whatever university you applied to. When the Taiwan Rep. Office informed you that you had a scholarship they gave a list of approved universities and more or less left you to it.
The people who got the scholarships in Taiwan got a bit less I think.
Screaming Jesus wrote:
The PRC are offering scholarships to their universities to UK students now.
I got that Ministry of Education scholarship while studying in Tainan at 成功 (just the language program). A friend of mine (‘Mad Scientist’ on Forumosa) got the same scholarship at 東海.
We had to take a written test, and then we had an interview at 成功, but I think it was different at 東海… (I aced the written, but I blew the interview - some teachers were surprised that I got it)
One thing that they asked Mad Scientist when he applied was if he was teaching English. When I applied, I made sure that they knew that I wasn’t teaching English at the time. We both think that that’s a really important factor when they decide whom to give the scholarship / fellowship to. The scholarship from the MOE is 15,000 NT per month for 6 months.
Also, in Tainan, there was this Quebequoi guy who got the scholarship 2 times in a row. He was studying Chinese Medicine material preparing to study Chinese medicine…
Guess what? Due to some sort of red tape/bug in the system (or could it be… RACISM ? :saywhat: ???), non-Chinese are barred from officially studying Chinese medicine at universities in Taiwan. They can audit classes, but they can’t get a degree or anything official. This guy had applied to every Chinese medical school in Taiwan. He asked the admissions office why he was rejected. Their response: ‘You’re not Chinese.’
Luckily, he finally found a school in Shanghai that accepts non-Chinese to study Chinese Medicine, and that’s where he is today.
I thought about mentioning his situation a long time ago when someone posted looking for a foreigner-Chinese medicine student to host a TV program… but I didn’t…
[quote=“Mr. Sir”]
Guess what? Due to some sort of red tape/bug in the system (or could it be… RACISM ? :saywhat: ???), non-Chinese are barred from officially studying Chinese medicine at universities in Taiwan. They can audit classes, but they can’t get a degree or anything official. This guy had applied to every Chinese medical school in Taiwan. He asked the admissions office why he was rejected. Their response: ‘You’re not Chinese.’[/quote]You think your bud was unlucky? My friend did 4 years at Chen Da, with top grades, then they broke the news that he could take the exams, but they couldn’t graduate him 
That was back in about '88 or so. Same reason.
This is fascinating to me. Did anyone ever offer a working definition of “Chinese-ness”? Did they clearly mean “Han”? Is this in the law somewhere? Etc.
Oh my god I thought I was the only one. Are there actually more like me out there?
thank god I’m not alone.
Limp? Limp… You didn’t say “limp.” Therefore you didn’t mean me.
Whew! That was close.
OOC
According to my classmate who’s now in Shanghai, you have to be able to prove Chinese ancestry… like a distant grandparent, etc…
And, you know, that’s a really really important qualification because, you know, it’s Chinese medicine…
He’s married to a Taiwanese. Anyway, if any non-Chinese want to study Chinese medicine and obtain a degree in Chinese medicine, the door is open to you in Shanghai… and Shanghai only.
But, gentlemen, let’s not digress…
As for the MOE scholarship, I knew a New Zealander who got it when he was at Shi-Da, and they knew that he was teaching English at Hess. Actually, this other Brazilian/English guy at my school in Tainan was an English teacher and he got the scholarship, too. They listed his nationality as British on the result announcement.
So, Mr. Bu, it’s possible to get the MOE scholarship and be an English teacher at the same time.
What I mean is, how do they define “Chinese” ancestry? How do I know whether that grandparent (or anyone, for that matter) counts as “Chinese”? By their name? Some kind of ID card? Proof of native language? What?
OK, let’s digress, then…
That’s an intelligent question, Screaming Jesus.
Therefore, I would think that the people who made the qualification didn’t think that far.
But maybe they did… Maybe they made a science out of it…
You can only study Chinese medicine if you possess one-sixteenth of the blood of the Yellow River people… [GONG]
I don’t think an eskimo would qualify… Maybe your Chinese ancestry has to have documents… so no prehistorical ancestry qualifications allowed???
It was common knowledge in my home town that my grandmother had an affair with a Chinese man, and I have always loved dragons, rice and the colour red. Do I qualify I wonder?
The continuation of a thread that went way off topic…
More than a year ago…
[GONG]
Hear ye! Hear ye!
Foreigners are allowed to be licensed to practice TCM in China
[GONG]
Though the article above is from 4 years ago…
And in Taiwan???
[quote=“bob”]It was common knowledge in my home town that my grandmother had an affair with a Chinese man, and I have always loved dragons… [/quote]How about rugby and leeks ? Maybe you’re Welsh ?