ÿþ<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <title>Books For China Project&#150;&nbsp;New York, NY</title> <meta name="description" content="Books for China Project is a non-profit organication in the US, where volunteers donate, collect western books toward China's university and college libraries."/> <meta name="keywords" content="books, china, chinese, university, college, library, book donation"/> <link href="style_uc.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen"/> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div align="center"> <table id="contenttable" width="716" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td id="header" colspan="2" align="center" valign="bottom"><img id="header" src="../images/header1.jpg" alt="Books For China Project" height="90" width="716" border="0" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td id="navcell" rowspan="2" valign="top" width="20%"> <a name="nav"></a> <h3>Contents:</h3> <div id="nav"> <div><a href="../index.html">Our Mission</a></div> <div><a href="../members.html">Our Members</a></div> <div><a href="../sponsers.html">Our Sponsers</a></div> <div><a href="../faqs.html">Our FAQ</a></div> <div id="thispage"><a href="../resource.html">Articles</a></div> <div><a href="../news.html">Media Coverages</a></div> <div id="thispagetop"><a href="http://localhost/guestbook/guestbook.php">Guest Book</a></div> </div> </td> <td valign="top" bgcolor="white" width="80%"> <div id="content"> <h3>Articles</h3> <br><b><u> 2009 Annual report of the Books-for-China Project</u></b> <p> Thanks to the help of all supporters, the Books-for-China Project had a banner year in 2009. It shipped nine containers of books to China. This makes a total of 16 containers since the founding of the project five years ago. </p><p> In 2009 Xiamen University Library was approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education as the receiving station specifically established to receive books from our project. After our first receiving station, the Ocean University of China at Qingdao, used up its quota of four containers for 2009, the last five containers were sent to Xiamen University Library.. </p><p> Seventeen designated university libraries in China have received our books. Any university library can go to our two receiving stations to select books they need. All our books have been taken. </p><p> In the United States, in addition to our storages at EP Expedi Co. at Brooklyn, N.Y., and at the World Journal (San Francisco) at Millbrae, CA, we had two new storages in 2009 one in Houston, TX, and the other in Thousand Oaks, CA, in southern California. In Houston Dr. Kongwei Huang, Chairman of Wong Family Benevolent Association of Houston, is kind enough to receive and store donors books for our project. In Thousand Oaks, CA, Ms. Linda Sun and Mr. Jimmy Lu, Manager and Director respectively of Kleve Electronics Co. will receive and store our books. All four storages are provided to our project free of charge. And all staff members of those companies work for us as volunteers. </p><p> In 2009 the project received gift books from many individuals and institutions. Individuals were mainly retired professor, scholars, libraries, and publishers. Among them are Professor Choyun Hsu, Academician of Academia Sinica in Taiwan and Professor of History of the University of Pittsburgh, Professor and Mrs. Immanuel Hsu, of the University of California at Santa Barbara, Professor and Mrs. Xiaobin Ji, of the same university, Professor of Mathematics, Jacques Dutka, of Columbia University, Professor of History, Eric Foner, also of Columbia, Professor Dave Wang of St. John s University, and Paul P. Wang of Duke University, Ms. Patricia Koo, of the UN and daughter of Dr. Wellington Koo, and Ms. Grace Yeh of IBM. </p><p> Among institutions that have donated books are C.V. Starr East Asian Library of Columbia University, Queensborough Community College Library, the University of Chicago, Portland State University, Brooklyn College, John Marshall Law School, Vermont Law School, Baruch College, Soka University Library, Forbe Magazine, The BusinessWeek, The University of Victoria, in Canada, The National Books Company, and IMF. </p><p> Mr. Qianli Hu of the CUNY collected many books from the CUNY library system. Mr. Jia Ying of the New York Academy of Medicine donated a large number of medical and science journals. Many other friends helped collect books from various sources. Many volunteers picked up many books for the project in 2009. Among those hard working volunteers were Dr. Lan Zheng, Dr. Changchuan Wu, Mr. Dakun Xing, Mr. Leong Wong, Ms. Lisa Suming Wang, President of AG International Travel, Mr. Ben Strong, Program Director of the Volunteers-in-Asia, and Mr. Taihe Kong, President of US-China Cultural Exchanging and Development Association. </p><p> Financially we were less successful. The total expenditure of the project in 2009 was $4459.83 and the total income $2075.00. Although the project is an all-volunteer organization wherein nobody receives any payment for his work, yet we do have some expenses. For instance, some out-of-town donors ask us to pick up their books from their homes or institutions. We have to pay the UPS or a trucking company for the pickup. If a donor s collection is too large for a volunteer s car, we have to hire a van. To fill up nine containers needs a lot of books which required a lot of expenses to collect. </p><p> We are very grateful to the following 11 financial supporters in 2009: </p><pre> Dr. Wai Leong--------------- $500. Mrs. Sharon Tong----------- $500. Professor Pai-chi Chou----- $250. Mr. Pohang Lee------------- $200. Mrs. Jeanne Fong----------- $100. Mr. De-hui Ren------------- $100. Mrs. Marion Cheng-------- $100. Mrs. Peggy Pan------------ $100. Mr. Henry Chung---------- $100. Ms. Rita Ormsby---------- $75. Yahoo------------------------ $50. Total-----$2075 </pre> <p> The project had a deficit of $2384.83 in 2009. This deficit will increase in 2010 because we expect to pick up more books in 2010. One of the reasons for the increase of pickups is that the U.S. Postal Service began to charge air-mail letter rate for sending books abroad in May of 2008. This prohibitively high postal rate makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for anyone to send books to China. Almost all international exchange of books between Chinese and American universities have been cancelled. Donors who want to send books to Chinese universities have been asking our project to send books to China on their behalf. Our project can send books to China for them free of charge if they only send their books to one of our storages in the U.S. Our project sends books to China by container. And the freight is shared by all recipients in China in according with the number of books they take. Therefore, an increasing number of donors are asking us for this service. </p><p> We are happy to perform this service for all donors. For not only it helps university libraries in China, but, by making more American books available to students and professors in China, it also promotes U.S.-China cultural relations. Since library collections in China s universities still lack many American books. We earnestly hope that more people will be interested in the Books-in-China Project and make 2010 an even better year. </p><pre> John T. Ma President Books-in-China Fund Feb. 14, 2010. </pre> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" valign="bottom" bgcolor="white"> <div id="contact"> Books-for-China Fund<br/> 138-10 Franklyn Avenue. #3-D, Flushing, NY 11355 <br /> <a href="mailto:info@bookforchina.org">info@bookforchina.org</a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>