Do you happen to know if there are any scholarship given to students who wish to study Chinese in Taiwan or in China?
Stupidly enough, I didn't apply for the Huji-Beida scholarship and now I'm trying to find another way to get to China next year...
(or later, if I have to work day and night to sponsor my studies...)
If you can give me some directions I'll be soo happy :)
please answer me via e-mail, if you can. My address is: anahatalie@gmail.com.
谢谢！
Hi Fili,
Since you're living there I figured I'd ask you this question because it does relate to the overall issue and I'm curious how you went about it. Visa. This seems to be the big linch pin. I'm coming from the US and may or may not come to NCKU-Tainan to study. I might end up at another school but that will depend on where I end up living. I'm hoping to get a 3 month visa which will allow me to travel around and check out different cities and schools. Then I'll apply to a program.
Does this make sense? How did you go about this process? Do you have to leave every couple of months to renew your visa? I find the information out there to be rather confusing? Visas with multiple entries vs none, non extendable visas vs extendable ones.
If you show up at the last moment at a school do they usually still have openings? Are the classes packed? What does a cheap apartment go for in Tainan?
Any suggestions or in put would be greatly appreciated.
Mike
Once you're a student you have to convert to a Resident VISA and issue an ARC within 15 days. That would mean that you're a resident of Taiwan, but this will only be possible with an acceptance letter & a student ID of a local university.
Since I didn't know which university to choose either (my options were NCTU Hsinchu and NCKU Tainan) I did a tourist visa (1 months), visited the schools and converted my VISA.
If you know in advance where you're going to, you can apply a resident VISA directly.
Check out iTainan (http://www.itainan.org) for more info about Tainan and NCKU.
Good luck,
Fili
Scholarship in Taiwan are a bit more complicated... but possible
Submitted by Fili on Thu, 2008-04-24 23:17.China, I wouldn't know, but in Taiwan, after you study for a semester, attend all classes and have good grades, you can take the test and apply for the Taiwan scholarship which would give you between 25-30,000NT$ a month (around 900US$). There's no guarantee that you'll get it, but there's a good chance if you do your job well. Taiwan's really helping out international students with endless funds thrown into the various universities. Just make sure you study with a university.
As for where, NCKU-Tainan, where I'm at, has a relatively good Chinese school and cost of living here is very cheap compared to the big cities of China and Taiwan, although the city is bigger than Jerusalem/Tel-Aviv. It's what foreigners call "The Real Taiwan". If you're into Chinese culture, I would dare say there's no place to better see Chinese culture than here (much more than in China).
If you have more specific questions - let me know.