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    San Francisco State shuts down Chinese language program under federal pressure

    by Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times Jul 30, 2019 4 minutes

    SAN FRANCISCO - In the far reaches of Redding, it's not so easy to learn Chinese.

    The Northern California city is 200 miles away from the Asian population centers of the San Francisco Bay Area. Only 958 of 91,236 Redding residents are ethnic Chinese, according to 2017 census data.

    But Madeline and Cooper Overton were able to study Chinese in their Redding high school - and visit China on a three-week summer trip that took them from the modern mecca of Shanghai to the terra-cotta warriors of Xian to the Great Wall outside Beijing. The siblings lived with Chinese families during three-day home stays, showed off their language skills in presentations and posed for countless photos with Chinese students enthralled by the American

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