Nathan Sturman's Homepage
I HAVE RETURNED TO Japan for the time being. I'm living in rural Gunma Prefecture and teaching, after two years living in Naples, Florida, where my daughter finished high school and I taught at Edison Community College and for Collier County Public Schools.
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Feng Menglong, Ping Yao Zhuan, Translated, adapted, and annotated by Nathan Sturman. 2000. [MS Reader
format] From University of Oregon, searchable E-Book Version of Ping Yao Zhuan See following headers for html version links:
HTML Version of Ping Yao Zhuan specially formatted for Japanese readers of English.
US HTML Version of Ping Yao Zhuan Includes link to mp3 files of my reading of the Ballad of Meng Jiang Nu.
Translation of Shengshengman and other Ci poems by Li Qingzhao (1084-1151?)
Ci by poetess Zhu Shuzhen of the Southern Song
Qian Zi Wen: The Thousand Character Essay
Bai Jia Xing: The Hundred Families' Names, Annotated in English
The Ballad of Meng Jiang Nu: MP3 the epic poem in English, recited by Nathan Sturman in 1982.
MIKE STUART'S FREE FLIGHT SCALE HOME PAGE, highly recommended, My own small Mostly Free Flight Scale Models" Gallery Page
Precision Flying Scale Models, kits and plans in 1/24th scale: DIELS ENGINEERING HOME PAGE
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East Asian Studies, PING YAO ZHUAN (HTML version), U Oregon E-book version of PING YAO ZHUAN, MS Reader format Lin Yutang's Chinese English Dictionary Online Edition, E-books on East Asia from University of Oregon, Thousand Character Essay, Translated with Commentary, Photo Album 1, Photo Album 2, Photo Album 3,, FAC Nationals 2000 Pictures, Robert Short, 1904-32, American Hero in China, The Story of Hazel Ying Lee, immortal WWII Chinese-American Aviatrix, on National Museum of USAF website, From Dor to Dor: In Honor of the WWI and II Veterans of Starr-Faye Legion of Honor Post 672, JWV, Aeronautical Gallery Pages, "Mostly Free Flight Scale Models" Gallery Page, Sixties in Philly: Motorcycling Memories, And TESOL notes
PING YAO ZHUAN, (The Sorcerers' Revolt), my English translation of Feng Menglong's late Ming version, Table of Contents, All Chapters Up
Original Prose and Poetry
Field Days, a novel (in process) and Short Stories,
From Dor to Dor: In Honor of the WWI and II Veterans of Starr-Faye Legion of Honor Post 672, JWV,
Essays on The Art of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages,
Jack Myer Sturman, 1913-2000: The Last Salute
PFC Ben Sturman, USMC, New River NC, 1943
Hi, My name is Nathan Sturman
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| Aviation, Asian Studies, Chinese History and Literature, History and its Lessons and ESL pedagogy |
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| Aeronautics, Model and Full Size Chinese Language and Literature Sijiaohaoma: 4 Corner System; Some work inspired by Clio, the Muse of History and her Stern Lessons, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and Links. (Scroll down for links to other websites.) |
Links to other sites on the Web
Airsail International, Auckland NZ
Welcome to the University of Pennsylvania
Chinese Aviation: 1st plane, 8/14, Robert Short
Online Chinese Character Dictionary (Includes 4 Corner Index, Cangjie and others)
Anti-Defamation League Online
Extensive (!) Links to Judaism, Jewish History
DC Maxecuters
Books on Line, Digital Library: 12,500+ free titles on line at the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt Library
The Linguistic Funland, with TESOL area
Ping Yao Zhuan Homepage
Penn Valley Hobby Center Online Catalog (USA)
Muzi Homepage
Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania
Chinese Classical Literature presented by Rick Harbough. Original Chinese texts, English, and electronic dictionary, no font download needed
University of Oregon East Asian Literature, E-books
The Stallions, Gunma University American Football Club
Mike Stuart's Aeromodelling Home Page, UK
Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary Online
The Story of the Four Immortal Chaplains
The Story of the Heroic Girl Scout Yang Huimin and the Lost Battalion at the Joint Savings Godown
My English Hei You Den/Ping Yao Zhuan formatted and proofread especially for Japanese readers of English.
Classic Model Airplane Plans and construction articles by Earl Stahl and others from the 1930s and 40s mostly
How it Was, History of Kunsan Air Base, Korea
Diels Engineering Home Page
Abandoned and Little Known Airfields, (a truly amazing website, a artful work of great dedication).
416th FMS Alumni on Yahoo Groups
Remarkable Article by Pearl Harbor survivor CORNELIA FORT.
The Story of Hazel Ying Lee, immortal WWII Chinese-American Aviatrix
I am trading Foreign Exchange for my clients in Tokyo, a long commute from my home in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture. I returned to Japan in October 2004 after working for over a year in Naples Florida. I taught Asian Studies, Chinese, Japanese, and ESL at Edison Community College there. During the year 2001-02 I lived and taught in China at Beijing Foreign Studies University's Beidaihe Training Centre. I am 58 years old, married for 24 years to Masako Imai, with one daughter, Naomi, 20 years old, shown above several years ago at Penn and in this link as a 14-year-old at Valley Forge. Naomi has journeyed across the Pacific many times and twice to China, where she stayed with me in Beijing and Beidaihe, and to Florida where she graduated Naples High School. She is an avid swimmer, lifeguard and is very keen on her studies. She is also a teacher of both English and Japanese and a translator.
I am an avid and dedicated ESL teacher with over thirty years' experience, formerly involved in secondary and adult ongoing education, literary translation, and writing.
I once worked as a pilot and flying instructor, and as a dispatcher/pilot for a regional airline, back during and just after my halcyon days at the University of Pennsylvania. (BA C'72, MA G'75). International Relations, History and Chinese Studies, Chinese literature, politics, science and technology. Besides English I speak Chinese, Japanese and Korean. I have completed an English translation of the 40 Chapter version of the Ping Yao Zhuan, a Chinese vernacular historical novel, the version attributed to Feng Menglong of the late Ming. As an E-book it can be downloaded from the University of Oregon, fully searchable, for Microsoft Reader. You can also read the chapters in html, latest version, on this homepage too (click on the header links above), as well as a biography of the author. Here on this webpage there are also translations of Song period Chinese woman poets and a translation by me of the Thousand Character Essay and other things which might be of interest. There is a special link to the Ping Yao Zhuan for Japanese readers of English as this work is traditionally popular in Japan. I am now adding photo galleries on our family, friends, and lives. For many years I participated in Professor Ishida's sinological seminars at Gunma University as a guest and when in Japan I give a yearly orientation to the fast-disappearing (sigh) 4 corner system used in so many good old sinological indexes.
I also build and fly model airplanes as a hobby, and enjoy designing and scratchbuilding them; mostly rubber powered free flight scale models.
Nate
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