Taiwanese students visit Amity University to showcase culture

While the Chinese president Xi Jinping was busy meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi, not so far away was a delegation of students from Taiwan visiting the Amity University campus as part of a cultural exchange programme on Thursday. The delegation called it a mere coincidence though, that Chinese president was in the country at the same time. Frances Lee, minister, Taipei Economic and Cultural Center, said, "It's a coincidence that the Chinese president is also visiting India. The purpose of our delegation's visit is to enhance mutual understanding and boost cultural exchanges between the young generation of India and Taiwan. The students have already visited JNU and are planning to visit Jamia Milia Islamia and OP Jindal Global University. The students of both the countries will benefit from the visit."

Students put up performances representing their respective countries. The Taiwanese students staged performances that combined dance, music and Mandarin to introduce Taiwan to Indian students. They also performed a Taiwanese opera and recited two poems. Words like 'mountain', 'family' and even 'feelings' were explained by Teresa, a junior year student at the National Taiwan Normal University, who was the anchor of the Taiwanese leg of the show. She asked the audience to repeat the words after her and conducted a small quiz at the end of the programme, which saw enthusiastic participation from the audience.

The Taiwanese students were equally spellbound by the performance of Amity students. Fan Ting-Ya aka Tanya, who is a student of the Department of Acrobatics at National Taiwan College of Performing Arts, said, "I liked the fusion dance where two girls performed Bharatanatyam and Kathak. I really enjoyed the afternoon in the college and hope to come to India again."

Talking about their visit, Lee Chuan-Tung, director of the delegation, said, "We enjoyed the programmes presented by the students here. The hand movements and the steps that the girls were doing were quite similar to what I have seen in Thailand. I must say that Indian culture has had a huge impact on Thai culture. I was very impressed with the command of JNU students over Chinese language, even though their instructor was an Indian. We also want to have good instructors in our country who can teach students English, but our instructors are all Taiwanese."

B Shukla, vice chancellor of Amity University, said, "We have been running the Taiwan education centre since last two years with four instructors. We arrange different activities organised by TEC, including Chinese food and dance festivals."

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