兰州大学

Enjoying at Piazza Castello/在城堡广场，后边是王宫

Prof. Giuseppe was teaching Italian to us at table/ 意大利语教授在餐桌上教我们意大利语

We 6 LZU exchange students in the classroom/来都灵的六个兰大学生在教室

Being an Exchange Student in Turin（1）

Yixin Liu

Although I have been here for just a couple of days, I have experienced many things and have many feelings.

On the second day we arrived in Turin, we called Jennifer who is the student dean of IUC（International University College of Turin）where we study in and she asked someone to arrange the accommodation for us in Olympic Village where Turin hold the 20th Olympic Games in winter. It takes 20 minutes to go to IUC by bus and the living conditions here is very good. IUC rent the apartments for us and the students from different countries live in the building together. The ones living on the same floor share a kitchen and when it is time for having dinner, you can smell dishes from all over the world. After the dinner, we usually sit together to talk for a while.

We have already had classes since 20th. IUC is in the center of the city and I think it is a place full of energy because the professors and the other people working here are very kind and friendly and they try to help the students at aspects of living or studying. The exchanging project of us is studying the course for MSc（Master of Sciences in Comparative Law Economics and Finance）. IUC has invited many famous professors to teach us such like Luca Anderlini who teaches Economic Intuitions of Capitalism and graduated from Cambridge UK). The main way of teaching is giving us lectures, and in the classes the students from different countries and knowledge background express their own ideas from many angles. I feel many pressures in studying: One is the language obstacle. Although I has passed CET-6 and IELITS in China, it is still hard to understand what the professor teach sometimes for the accent of some of them and there are also many terms in the lectures.The other problem is created by the courses themselves of Msc, because what we need to learn is not just about law, but also about finance and economics, and not only the domestic law but also the law of different parts of the world which is a big challenge for us. After finishing the classes at the end of a day, I felt tired but also need to read materials to compensate for the lack of listening English. But everything is hard at the beginning, and I hope after spending more time on studying, I will be adapt to all of this. It is a challenge but also can make us get much from it.

It is amazing to live here and students can organize some activities and there will be an International Football Game next Monday. I think it maybe different to play football here where the famous football club Juventus is in. In our spare time, we walk around this city and talk with the local people who are very kind and if you ask them the way to some place, they will show you with their body language if they can’t speak English and even take you there sometimes.

Turin is a beautiful city with long history, and in the downtown, there are many wide streets and beautiful squares .It has the blocks with baroque style built by Savoia family who governed Italy in 17th century. When I walk in the blocks, just feel like living far from modern society. There are also some churches, museums and theaters which show the belief, history and culture of this city.

In my opinion, studying abroad and to know different culture and the way of thinking are precious experiences in my life. The most important thing is you may learn how to get along with other people because it doesn’t like when we are in China where we are familiar with the surroundings and can communicate with our mother tongue. We should deal with all the problems and try to get what we want by ourselves. We are using English with different people and trying to cooperate with them.

Thank our university to give us such kind of platform and also need to say thanks to my tutor Mr.Liu Guanghua who gave me a kind of awareness which is important for me to have courage to go abroad. I also hope you guys can have such awareness and prepare for it such like taking the exam of IELITS and TOEFL and try to get the chance our university supply.

Such like Monk Tang going to west world, I also come here to find something which is knowledge, or more exactly, a kind of thought which can make my mind open and find the position of my life that make me keeping work hard for…

都灵交流感想(一)

刘一鑫

到都灵虽然才10几天，但是经历了很多事情，感触很多。

来这里的第二天，我们联系到要去的学校IUC（International University Colleage of Turin）的负责人Jennifer,她派人把我们接到了住宿的地方——奥运村，2006年，都灵举办了20届冬奥会，这里学校乘公交大概20分钟，居住区环境很好，IUC在这里为我们租了两层公寓，不同国家的人住在一起，同一楼层共用一个厨房，到做饭时间，厨房里飘出各国菜肴的香味，饭后大家经常坐在餐厅聊天。

20号，学校开始上课了， IUC坐落在市中心，走进这所学校，感受到的是一种活力，无论是教授还是工作人员，都表现出对工作认真和热情，在生活上和学习上积极地为学生提供各种帮助。我们参加的交流项目是学习MSc（Master of Sciences in Comparative Law Economics and Finance）的课程，IUC聘请了一些有名的教授来给我们上课，这学期教我们Economic Institions of Capitalism的Luca Anderlini教授就毕业于英国剑桥。上课的方式以讲授为主，课堂上气氛比较活跃，来自不同国家，不同知识背景的同学们踊跃发言，从多个角度来发表自己对同一问题的看法。在这里学习，感受到很大的压力，一方面来自语言的障碍：虽然在国内过了六级和雅思，但是听那些带着很多专业术语的英文还是很吃力；另一方面的压力来自于专业本身，要学的不仅仅再是法律知识，还涉及到了金融和经济，不再局限于本国的法律，而是把视角扩展到了整个世界。这对我们来说是个巨大的挑战，一天的课上下来，已经十分疲惫了，为了弥补听力上的不足，课下需要看很多的资料——万事开头难，我想经过自己的努力，以后会慢慢适应，这是个挑战，同时也会带给我们很大的收获。

在这里生活是很有乐趣的，学生之间会自发的组织一些活动，下周一会举行一场“国际球赛”，而能在尤文图斯所在地踢球，应该是另一番感觉了；课余时间，会四处走走，和当地的意大利人交谈，这里的人很热情，如果问路，他们即便不懂英文，也会耐心地比比划划，有的甚至亲自带路。都灵是个古老和美丽的城市，在市区，宽敞的大街及美丽的广场很多，保留着17世纪萨沃亚家族统治下建造的巴洛克似的美丽的街区，走在街上，如同远离了现代社会。点缀于城市间的教堂，博物馆，剧院展示这个城市的信仰，历史和文化。

能在国外学习，感受不同的文化和思维方式，我想对人生是一种宝贵的经历，最重要的是，学会如何为人处事。所有的事情不再像在国内，熟悉的环境、用母语交流，所有的事情都要自己去做，自己去争取，用英语与不同的人打交道，去协调和适应与不同的人合作。

感谢兰大能给我们提供这样的平台，同时也感谢刘光华老师，他给了我一种意识，有了这种意识，才会有勇气走出来看一看。我希望大家也应该有这种意识，并为此做一些准备，比如参加雅思，托福这样的语言考试，积极地去争取学校给我们提供的机会。

就像唐僧西天取经一样，我来到这里也似乎在寻找着什么，这种东西可以说是知识，但我觉得更重要的是一种思想，这种思想可以使我的视野更加开阔，去准确地定位我的人生，可以让我去努力，去坚持…….

Brainstorming

Being an Exchange Student in Turin (2)

Yixin Liu

Last week, IUC held a “Brainstorming” seminar chaired by Professor Ugo Mattei, during which, faculty members and students from the IUC “Research Group on Global Financial Markets” took a good opportunity to present their research results. At the seminar, everybody expressed their views and exchanged ideas freely, new sparks of thoughts burst out now and then together with collisions and conflicts between different minds, although more than one time we felt the tense atmosphere of debate clearly and strongly, yet it was friendly all the way from start till finish. And the brainstorming was so fierce that it lasted for 7 hours from 10:00 in the morning to 17:00 in the afternoon. I guess that’s the reason why it is called “Brainstorming”. Even now, when recalling back, I can still remember each amazing moment happened on that day clearly.

Inspired by this seminar and its name, I came up with the idea of writing my 2nd essay entitled “Brainstorming” about exchange life here at IUC in Turin.

I think it has been five months since I wrote my 1st essay about life of being an exchange student here. During the past five months, the dense academic atmosphere of IUC has drawn a much bigger circle for me within which I could get more knowledge that I had no idea of before. I feel like having been rolled into a strong “knowledge storm”. Hence, in this small essay I would like to talk something about the STORM I experienced in the past two semesters at this marvelous place.

Just as I’ve mentioned before in the 1st essay, IUC is an international college in which the main courses are concerning interdisciplinary courses in Economics, Finance and Law. As an international college, one of its characteristics of internationalization is that professors working at IUC are from 14 countries from across the world. Thus, it is not hard to imagine that the “knowledge storm” could happen whenever, wherever. In the last two terms, I took three compulsory courses: Economic & Legal Institutions Foundations of Capitalism, Financial Instruments and Incentives & Regulations. Each course was arranged to be taught by two professors of Economics and Law respectively. Thus we could get a deeper and broader view through different eyes, different academic brains. For example, Prof. Anderlini revealed that the aim of trade was to get the Pareto Optimal from the angle of Economics, and further, Prof. Tom Herth introduced to us the two fundamental theorems of Welfare Economics and Coase Theorem with his special American humor on the grounds of Anderlini to find the balance between justice and efficiency; whereas Prof. Panailillo and Paolisa lectured us about the legal regulations and the rationale from angle of Law. Except for these compulsory courses, in the second term, IUC also offered 5 optional courses which could be chosen according to our own interests. In addition, there are three kinds of clinics open to all of us, in which many lawyers and entrepreneurs are invited to analyze some real cases and share their experience of management in a more practical way.

Knowledge storm is everywhere. The more I’ve learned, the more I realize I lack. As a LZU exchange member in the older generation, for those who are exploring the possibility of studying here, I think to know some basic knowledge about Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Finance, International Finance as well as Law will be very helpful for adapting to new life as early as possible.

With Prof. Tom Herth/和Tom Herth教授的合影

Seminar storm occurs in every week. On every Monday, IUC holds a seminar and many famous professors come here to give us lectures, discussing hot topics in Economics, Finance and Law. Usually, the professors prefer to spend half an hour or so explaining their ideas firstly and then give us some time to ask questions and discuss. In recent months, because of the world financial crisis, many lectures are focused on re-evaluating financial systems and putting forward practical advice on innovation. Among these seminars, the one which gave me the deepest impression is the First Annual Comparative Law, Economics and Finance Conference held from December 12th to 13th of 2008, in which the American senator Mike Gravel was invited to be a keynote speaker.

US Senator Mike Gravel lecturing in the Annual Conference/

美国议员Mike Gravel在全球化&金融危机年会上作报告

Question storm in the classroom happens at any moment in any day. When having classes in China, we got used to listening. Even if we do have some questions or doubts, we prefer to ask the professors after classes. But here, there is more time to discuss in class and whenever you have some opinions about what the professors said, you can interrupt them directly, and the following result you could imagine might possibly be an active even heated atmosphere in a small classroom. In my mind, Tomaso, Marco, Ibrahim and Emanuele are the forever “question makers”. I fairly admire their sharp minds, original ideas, and fluent English. Meanwhile, I also understand how important, how beautiful “sharing knowledge” is. It is much better to share with each other your new ideas and sparks of thoughts instead of locking them in your heart. Since it comes to the point of sharing and communication, now, what I’d like to emphasize is the language again. Poor English can be a huge obstacle for communication. Many precious thoughts will be probably missed just for your English is not good enough to catch them in time. Thus do please improve your English, and the more, the better. Your attention should not be limited to what scores you’ve got or plan to get in the English tests such as CET-6 or even IELTS and TOEFL but to the practical listening and speaking abilities.

Discussing in the classroom/教室里的讨论

Chance and caring storm is easy to access. The professors at IUC are very helpful and supply us chances of doing some research. For example, Prof. Giuseppe often provides us research materials of Economic and Law about China; Jennifer introduced to us how to use LexisNexis to gather electronic database information for law studying; Prof. Giuliano launched an academic project, convening students to choose their interested country and study its legal system.

IUC Library at a glance/IUC图书馆一瞥

Being at IUC, I feel I am totally involved in kinds of storms nervously, yet fortunately. Within the brainstorming, I have cherished chances to absorb as much knowledge as I could to improve myself. However, in my mind, the value for a social person does not lie in what I’ve got, but what I’ve given, am giving and will give. I surely know I cannot thrive alone, and I surely know I have a lot of things to do. Therefore, I sincerely hope instead of being submerged in this amazing brainstorm, I’m able to gradually accumulate knowledge from it as much as I can and make full use of it to give more and better serve.

头脑风暴——蕴蓄飞的力量

——在都灵做交换生（二）

刘一鑫

上周，IUC举行了一场由Ugo Mattei教授主持并被冠名“头脑风暴”的Seminar。于是，IUC“全球金融市场研究小组”师生的论文成果得以充分展示。一般，新观点的产生都要经历激烈的博弈交锋，因此Seminar冠做“头脑风暴”绝对名副其实：大同立场的相互容纳，迥异观点的交锋碰撞……新的东西往往闪现在巅峰对决的那一刻。从上午10点一直到下午5点，头脑的风暴足足持续了7个小时。现在回想，那时唇枪舌战的狡辩也好明辨也罢擦出的火花依然星光四射。

也因为IUC的这场“头脑风暴”，动了我写下在都灵第2篇的念头，并定与“头脑风暴”的Seminar齐名。

回想初到IUC写下第1篇文字，距离现在已经快5个月了。这5个月，我如同被一股强劲的知识风暴席卷。IUC浓厚的学术氛围在我所触及或尚未触及到的知识域外又画了一个更大的圆甚至是一片海，于是整个的我并我战斗的细胞徜徉在更open的开区间，享受已知的快乐一并未知的迷茫，并在迷茫中运筹我下一站的策略。

所以，这第2篇的随笔，多要讲些风暴来袭的事情。

正如我在第1篇文字里提到的，IUC是一个侧重金融、经济和法律跨领域研究的国际化学院。其国际化的一个明显标志就是师资的国际化，这里有来自14个不同国家的教授给我们上课。所以，知识的风暴可以整月整年随时随地地刮。过去的这两个学期，我的必修课共有三门：Economic & Leagal Institutions Fondations of Capitalism, Financial Instruments and Incentives & Regulations。但每门课都由两位分别来自经济和法律领域的教授从各自专业的角度讲授。比如：Anderlini教授从经济学的角度揭示了交易的根源在于达到帕累托最优，而Tom Herth教授善用他美国式的幽默在此基础上进一步引入福利经济的两个基本定理和科斯定理，探究法律的经济学价值，追求正义和效率的平衡；Panailillo教授和Paolisa教授则从法律层面讲授不同的法律规制和产生的原因。另外，IUC还开设有很多选修课。比如第二学期就有Comp. Law & Econom. of the Public Sector, Anti Trust等5门。除了常规的课程外，IUC讲经说法的Clinic课程会经常从校外请一些律师、企业家从实战的角度讲述一些真实案例和成功的经营理念。

风暴来袭！接触的知识越多，就越觉得自己的不足。所以，作为半个过来人，建议那些准备进入IUC学习的同学提前了解一些微观经济学、宏观经济学、金融学、国际金融学以及法律方面的基本知识，这对尽快适应有很大帮助。

Seminar的风暴每周都要刮的。这里每周周一都会举行Seminar，邀请一些知名教授来作讲座，探讨当前经济和法律领域的热点问题。通常，教授们先用半个到一个小时的时间来阐述自己的观点，剩下的时间会留给同学们提问和讨论。由于金融危机的爆发，近期的讲座内容涉及最多的还是当前危机下对金融制度的思考和进行改革的建议。这其中，印象很深同时也是规模最大的应属去年12月12日至13日召开的为期两天的全球化&金融危机年会，主讲人有邀请到美国议员Mike Gravel，当然还有许多来自其他国家和地区的学者。

课堂的风暴是要时时起的。在国内上课的时候，大家似乎更多地习惯于听，如果有什么问题，也是喜欢课下去找老师请教。在这里，讨论的时间比较多，有什么问题可以随时向教授提出，课堂气氛比较活跃，有时为了一个问题会争论很久。班里的Tomaso, Marco, Emanuele, Ibrahim常常是“问题的制造者”，我很佩服他们敏捷的思维、独到的见解和流利的英文，也越发地领会“分享知识”的重要性。所以，有了新的见解和思想的火花，定要拿出来分享，而不是闷在心里造车。说到要交流，所以，接下来我要强调的依旧是语言问题。如果英文不好，对于交流真的是一个巨大的障碍，很多宝贵的idea还来不及catch就已从耳边溜掉了，还有那个自己，大多时候纵是才思敏捷文思泉涌也只能哑在一边敲闷鼓。所以，还作为半个过来人的我强烈建议大家定要努力提高自己的英文，能有多好就有多好，不应仅仅局限在四六级，或是雅思托福能考几分，而是切实的听说能力。

还有，机会的风暴、关爱的风暴也时时随机而起。IUC的老师会积极给我们提供学习上的帮助和搞研究的机会。比如：Giusepp教授会经常把有关中国经济和法律的资料发给我们几个中国学生；学校辅导员Jennifer向我们介绍如何利用LexisNexis搜集电子数据库信息以便我们做法律研究；Giuliano教授则开展了一个学术项目，吸收班里来自不同国家的学生选择自己所感兴趣的国家并对其法律制度进行研究。

风暴！风暴！浸在头脑风暴的激荡里，我似海绵吸水般充实着自己。然而，对于一个有着社会属性的人来说，价值的体现不是我得到了什么，而是我能给予什么。所以，我希望自己不会被风暴带来的迷茫吞噬，而是借着这股强劲的风蕴蓄我飞的力量，学会飞翔，并且认真去飞……因为我不只是我自己，我还有我要去做的每一件事情，我还要把飞的翅膀带回去。