he Ameson Foundation is committed to the promotion of culture and language exchanges around the world. Between hosting 'Chinese Culture Days' abroad, promoting the cultures and languages of various countries within China and providing assistance for Chinese language programs abroad, the Ameson Foundation is constantly exploring more ways to promote Chinese language and culture abroad as well as promote other cultures in China. The Ameson Foundation strongly believes that through these efforts the goals of increasing students' and educators' global mindedness will be achieved.

Foreign Language Promotion in China

Using a broad range of resources and materials, the Ameson Foundation is committed to promoting foreign languages all over China. With the ever-increasing need for speakers of other foreign languages, other than English, the Ameson Foundation actively promotes French, Spanish and Italian languages in China.

Ameson's method of promotion is to implement languages as elective subjects within participating schools. These form the core of cooperative programs, which are designed for Chinese students who want to participate in study exchange programs abroad. Ultimately, the Ameson Foundation hopes that when these students return to China, they will bring their acquired language and cultural understandings with them to pass along to their peers to continue the development of more cultural understanding. In order to achieve this objective, Ameson typically provides participating Chinese high schools with teaching staff, course books, testing standards, teaching plans and a syllabus.

Chinese Culture and Language Promotion Abroad

The Ameson Foundation is committed to the promotion of Chinese culture and language around the world. With Chinese culture events and donations of books and funds for Chinese language purposes, the Ameson Foundation uses its resources in order to promote these ideas across the globe. For the last 6 years, the Ameson Foundation has continued to make Chinese culture and language promotion a primary goal.

Chinese Language Promotion

More recently, the Ameson Foundation has become a valuable resource for schools, libraries and other institutions in assisting in the promotion of Mandarin Chinese. In 2009 alone, the Ameson Foundation made significant contributions to this cause. In April, the Ameson Foundation donated books in the amount of $20,000 to an Los Angeles public library. The donation included Chinese fiction and non-fiction books as a way to enhance the Chinese-language collection at the library. And in November, the Ameson Foundation made a significant contribution to Stanford University’s School of Education to fund the ,Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP) masters program in Mandarin. It is through donations and programs like these that the Ameson Foundation makes contributions toward improving Chinese language programs around the world.

Chinese Culture Days

One way the Ameson Foundation promotes Chinese culture is through Chinese Culture Days. The tour through Europe in 2003 at five leading Irish and British universities provided an opportunity for Chinese artists from prestigious music institutes and prominent Chinese government officials to engage in public talks, exhibitions and Chinese folk art performances. This series of events was the first time such a high-level Chinese cultural promotion event was hosted overseas and fully sponsored by a non-governmental organization from China.

Promoting a kaleidoscope of culture

In addition to promoting foreign languages, the Ameson Foundation also works closely with local communities to promote an appreciation for cultural diversity and global harmony.

Although Ameson actively engages in promoting the cultural values of many foreign countries in China as part of its numerous exchange programs, it also supports the cultural activities of young people in China.

For example, Ameson organizes several annual summer camps for students of all ages. These camps contribute toward the building of a 'foundation' (language ability and cultural awareness) to better students' chances of studying at top-tier universities.