2007 summer camp in Beijing, China
Tour designed for those who want to learn Chinese language and interested in Chinese culture

2008 Teenager Abroad Summer Language Programs
Full language immersion programs, truly international student population at the schools, target language spoken at all times, suited to all language levels, all-inclusive programs including host airport pickup and return

easyMandarin – The Chinese Language Experts
easyMandarin provides a premier Mandarin Chinese language learning experience for students at all levels

EduKick Travel Soccer & Language Camps
Professional Soccer Training Daily, Language Instruction, Language & Culture Immersion

Experiment in International Living, EIL
The Experiment's international summer high school programs feature opportunities Experimenters focus on themes such as community service, language study, soccer, travel, ecology, the arts, sustainable development and fair trade, cooking, photography, theater, or outdoor adventure as they enjoy daily life with their host families and participate in activities with their group

Global Exchange-Chinese Language Courses in Beijing
Global Exchange Center is language and cultural training and education service center

High School Exchange Program
Private and Public schools, host family and boarding schools, from 14 to 18 years old

i-to-i Early Gap Abroad
These two week tours are designed to give students, aged 16-19, a structured tour of these countries where they will partake in a deep cultural immersion through volunteering at local initiatives, taking language lessons and journeying to more traditional site visits

The Learning Traveller
International Language Camps for Children, Teens, and Families

Mandarin House
Chinese Language School - Intensive group lessons, Private lesson, Academic Program, General Chinese, Professional Chinese, Summer Camps, Internships

One-to-One Homestays Worldwide
The unique Eurolingua One-to-One Homestay Programme will ensure that you make maximum progress in the shortest possible time, whatever your starting level, beginner to advanced. Total linguistic and cultural immersion, living in the private residence of your Eurolingua Tutor for 1 to 4 weeks

Rassias Language Programs
Rassias Programs features seven exciting opportunities to study and travel abroad for high school age students and one program for younger ages

School Year Abroad
School Year Abroad (SYA) is the only secondary-level program which allows students to live with a European or Chinese family for an entire academic year while earning U.S. graduation credits and preparing for selective U.S. colleges and universities

Sino Language Gateway
SLG's Total Immersion Chinese Summer Camp is designed for students aged 8-18. It combines language learning, culture immersion, fun activities, and traveling altogether

Youth For Understanding
YFU offers over 100 programs in more than 35 countries. Students are typically placed throughout the host country and live with a volunteer host family while attending a local school

China Information: Inside
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China is a geographical region in East Asia and Central Asia. With over one-fifth of the world's population, the majority of China exists today as a state known as the People's Republic of China, but it also refers to a long-standing civilization comprising successive states and cultures dating back more than 4,000 years.

With one of the world's longest periods of mostly uninterrupted civilization and the world's longest continuously used written language system, China's history has been largely characterized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war, and violent imperial dynastic change. The country's territorial extent expanded outwards from a core area in the North China Plain, and varied according to its changing fortunes to include multiple regions of East, Northeast, and Central Asia. (The term "China proper" is used by some observers and historians to describe the core territory historically home to the majority Han Chinese, as opposed to lands associated later with China such as what is now Xinjiang.) For centuries, Imperial China was also one of the world's most technologically advanced civilizations, and East Asia's dominant cultural influence, with an impact lasting to the present day.

By the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, China's political, economic, and military influence declined relative to the growing regional power of Japan and the influence of Western powers. The imperial system in China ended with the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC) under Sun Yat-sen in 1912; however, the next four decades of ROC rule were marred by warlord control, the Second Sino-Japanese War during which the Empire of Japan occupied large parts of China, and the Chinese Civil War which pitted Chinese Nationalists against the Communist forces.

After its victory in the Chinese Civil War, the Communist Party of China under Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, forcing the Nationalists to retreat and relocate the ROC government to the island of Taiwan, which it had governed since the end of World War II. Since then, the ROC has maintained administrative control over Taiwan, the Pescadores Islands, several islands off the coast of Fujian province including Kinmen and the Matsu Islands, and some islands in the South China Sea