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Personal Statement
Applied Program: Sports Journalism

Journalism, Sports, and Psychology are the three major components of my life.

Ever since I was small, I loved books of complex arguments and philosophical depth. This is why when applying to college, I chose Psychology as my major without hesitation. Meanwhile, I have taken martial art as a testing place of my endurance and perseverance. My mentors incded famed martial art masters, such as Professor Guo Yanjing and Professor Liu Xueqian, and Mr. Li Shiying, the national champion of sanda-a Chinese form of boxing. In fact, I won the national championship of sanda for college students two times. It was, of course, this combination of personal and academic interests that made me decide to choose Sports Psychology as my specialized area for graduate study, at the Beijing University of Physical Education, which has been considered a major cradle for China's Olympic champions. At the university, I took a large number of courses in Sports and Physical Education, and also used my spare time to audit related courses. For my outstanding academic performance I received honors from the university several times.

But it was in my involvement with the media during this period that I was able to truly excel-I was appointed by China Sports, the largest sports newspaper in China, as its part-time reporter. My success was almost immediate, because I was able to use my knowledge of sports psychology to comment on sporting events. My reports were so highly regarded that they soon became the staple for local newspapers throughout China. At the 1998 Goodwill Games held in the U.S., Sang Lan, a young Chinese gymnast, had a severe neck injury, an instance that attracted worldwide media attention. Since I made the most speedy and in-depth reports on the incident, the news coverage by major media networks of the world, including the American Warner TV Network, was all purchased from us.

After graduating from the university, I became a full-time employee for the newspaper company, beginning with an assignment for the project of "Public Election on the Top 50 Athletes in New China," which turned out to be a smashing success. I was responsible for the overall editing and column writing. As there was a great scarcity of useful reference materials in the company's archives, I utilized the totally original materials of our own creation. One year later, I was rewarded for my special contribution to the company with a quick promotion, to the rank of Service Manager. With this success, I began to look forward to a full-fledged career in journalism and the media.

My next assignment was to establish a new web site for China Sports, a project of great exigency because of the pressing public demand on Internet accessibility. Later, I joined Sina.com, the largest Chinese web station in the world, as their specialized consultant for the news coverage on the 2000 Olympic Game at Sidney. Using their newly developed information networking facilities, I provided speedy and in-depth reports of sporting events, resulting in a record-breaking 15,000,000 PV per day, unheard of in China's history of the Internet service. I also helped Sino.com remodel its sports section, with more emphasis on inside stories, detailed commentaries, and interviews with athletic stars. The effort was fruitful, as shown in that the PV was climbing up steadily.

My rich experience in journalism has made me more keenly aware of its importance in serving the public, as well as in shaping its values. We must maintain objectivity, and yet we must have our kind concern for the need of ordinary citizens, informing and inspiring them in the best way we could. For me, it has been a demanding job all along, but the lesson I have learned from it is to never give up. I still remember that when I was writing my Master's thesis, I started to work for China Sports, which ate badly into the time I needed for my academic project. I often had to work 18 hours a day to make satisfying progress. Eventually, the thesis was completed on time, and was highly regarded, for its substance as well as the graceful style of my writing.

On the other hand, I have also learned from my work experience that there is an urgent need for me to further my education, in order to attain high grounds in my profession. The news media for sports in China is developing fast, and the market is becoming saturated. Competition is intense, and plagiarism sometimes goes rampant. Obviously, the field has not yet been adequately regulated, and there is much China can learn from the journalist institutions and practices in the West. This is why I have decided to pursue an advanced degree in Journalism at an American university, to make myself a top specialist in sports journalism, a profession I dearly love.

Your university is famous for its graduate program in Journalism, ranking high among American universities and colleges. Professor BigName, in particular, is well known among Chinese college students, whose professional ability and creative spirit I truly admire. It will be a great honor for me to have an opportunity to benefit from your first-rate faculty and research facilities-an experience that will allow me to make my very special contribution to China's sports journalism, a few years from now. Your careful consideration of my application will be sincerely appreciated.

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Personal Statement
Intended Program: Recreation and Leisure Studies

The Martial Art (wushu) and the Technique of Deep Breathing (qigong) constitute an integral part of Chinese traditional culture and one of the essential cultural legacies of the world civilization. Even now, those two ancient health-building techniques are still indispensable in facilitating people’s health. Yet, it is regretful to notice that they seem to have stopped developing in the modern era. I believe that the best way out of this dilemma is to integrate those two traditional health-building techniques with the latest research achievements of western recreational and leisure studies. I believe that by undertaking a Ph.D. program in recreation and leisure studies at your esteemed university, I will be well positioned to make contributions to this integration. 

I completed my undergraduate and postgraduate programs respectively at xxxxx Institute of Physical Education and xxxxxx University, arguably two first-rate sports universities in China. I first majored in the Chinese martial arts then in Chinese traditional Taiji and health Qigong. This systematic and rigorous educational background has given me a necessary academic foundation for your program. My 7-year education allowed me to not only learn the theories and the skills in my specialties but also gain insights into the essence of the wushu and qigong—the perfect union between the physical and the mental. In two programs, I was particularly fascinated by a number of courses such as Martial Arts Serial Exercise Training, Taiji Boxing, Health Cultivation Qigong, Yoga, Exercise Physiology, Sport Medicine, and Sport Anatomy. I benefited from the martial arts training, taiji boxing and qigong exercises by deriving the spirit of perseverance and the pursuit of an active and balanced life characterized by a tactful aggressive attitude. In this way, I maintained a tranquil state of benign physiological-psychological cycle. Energetic and aggressive, I made efforts to win academic successes one after another.

Entering the xxxxx Institute of Physical Education as the third top student in my province in that year’s national university entrance examination, I maintained a leading position in my academic performance, not only winning scholarships (available only to the top 5%) every year but also receiving the honor of Outstanding Student, Outstanding Graduate and Excellent Intern. With top scores in the qualifying examinations for the postgraduate program, I was enrolled into Beijing Sport University. As a postgraduate, I had ample teaching assistant experience. First, I taught taiji boxing and health cultivation qigong to undergraduates. Then, because of my sound English proficiency and interpersonal skills, I worked as a teacher of taiji boxing and health cultivation qigong, on behalf of our university’s Foreign Affairs Section, to foreign students and taiji-qigong fans from France, Canada, the United States, Japan and African countries. In addition, I was a voluntary teacher offering free taiji-qigong trainings to the elderly people at Martial Arts Association of China Academy of Sciences and Beijing Ever-Green Geracomium. All those activities helped me accumulate important teaching experience and raise my service awareness.

The research I have done in writing my undergraduate thesis and postgraduate dissertation is closely aligned with the program I am currently applying for. Entitled The National Characteristics of Chinese Martial Arts, my undergraduate thesis demonstrates the underlying cultural features and the healthcare medical effect of the martial arts—their ability to temper one’s psychology and cultivate one’s temperament in addition to their direct health cultivation through physical exercises. My Master’s dissertation focuses on the Philosophical Characteristics of Chinese Traditional Sport Health Cultivation Practices. By an in-depth analysis of the theoretical premises of Chinese traditional sport practices, such as “the supremacy of prevention”, “parallel development of internal and external mechanisms,” and “equal emphasis on mental and physical cultivation”, the dissertation offers an interpretation of the philosophical basis of those practices. I also examined how those philosophical principles are embodied in the actual practices. I applied an interdisciplinary approach in writing this dissertation, soliciting constructive comments from senior professors in Chinese medicine, arts, social sciences, and, of course, sports.

My work experience since the completion of my Master’s program is related to sports administration as I have been working at the Center of Health Qigong Administration, State Administration of Sport. Our center is a governmental organization devoted to providing consultations to elderly citizens concerning sports activities and exercises. Apart from drafting major government policies, I have taken part in important academic activities over the past two years. I have been a member of a research team on two research projects sponsored by the State Administration of Sport and other relevant departments—Creating and Standardizing Certain Health Qigong Practices from Chinese Traditional Health Cultivation Forms and Evaluating their Physical Effect and Research into the Current State of Public Health Qigong Activities. For the first project, I have received the National Award for Sports Science and Technology Advances. In addition, I have co-authored four books published by the People Sports Publishing House, including Tendon Changing Classic of Health Qigong Practices (please refer to my Resume for detail). I have also attended important academic conferences, acted as research assistant and trainer. In this way, I have developed valuable practical experiences, enhancing my teaching, training and research abilities. 

In my proposed program, I am deeply interested in studying recreation and leisure. My work experience shows that Chinese traditional health cultivation practices like qigong and martial arts, themselves recreational and leisure events, have sound preventive and therapeutic effects. It is a pity that, without scientific guidelines, we have not made full advantage of those important resources. The underlying reason is that we have not been able to perform systematic and comprehensive research. Another reason is that, even though people now enjoy much more spare time than ever before, they have little idea how to spend their leisure and undertake recreation in an intelligent manner. I hope that I can help people understand the importance of the principle of “LIVE WELL THROUGH HEALTHY LIFESTYLE.” I also hope that, through your program, I can continue to broaden my administrative knowledge so that I can ultimately facilitate recreation and leisure activities through government and community channels.

I would like to apply for admission into the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation of xxxx University. Your program of Recreation and Leisure Studies offers an interdisciplinary study that encompasses a rich variety of subjects ranging from Recreation Management to Leisure Behavior. You have advanced facilities, mature curriculum and effective research methodologies, thereby providing a sound condition for me to carry out my studies and research. I would like to concentrate on Therapeutic Recreation, Recreation Administration, Recreational Sport Management, and Leisure Studies, Leisure and Health, Leisure and Healthy Lifestyles, Leisure and Aging, Sports for Seniors. I am particularly interested in Therapeutic Recreation because I hope to focus on exposing the socially underprivileged people, that is, the weak and the elderly, the patients of chronic and deeline diseases, the handicapped and the mentally retarded, to a satisfying leisure lifestyle by practicing yoga, taiji boxing, qigong, and martial arts.

I wish that your program will develop me into a researcher, administrator, teacher and/or counselor in recreation and leisure who can treat and rehabilitate people in need by using recreational sports and therapeutic recreational services. My undergraduate and postgraduate specializations and my work experiences all point to my qualifications as a worthy candidate for your Ph.D. program. I believe that my Oriental background, especially my understanding of traditional Chinese philosophy and my skills in Yoga, Taiji boxing, Qigong and Martial Arts will be a unique contribution to the diversity of your program.