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Semester's Events of Spring 2007
*These events are subject to change
January 24: Beginning of the Semester Celebration
- Event: SHKCA Spring 2007 Welcome Night
- Time: January 24, 2007, Wednesday, 07:30 p.m.
- Location: 174 Barrows Hall
The Society of Hong Kong and Chinese Affairs invites new and returning members to the SHKCA Spring 2007 Welcome Night. Come and meet new friends, Snacks and light refreshments will be served.
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February 7: SHKCA 2007 Movie Night
- Event: "Mr. 3 Mintues" 3分鐘先生
- Time: February 7, 2007, Wednesday, 07:00 p.m.
- Location: 174 Barrows Hall
We will be showing "Mr. 3 Mintues" on February 7, 2007. The event is free and open to everyone. Please arrive early for seats. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. and move begins at 7:15 p.m.
Note: Movie will be in Cantonese with English subtitles.
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February 21: SHKCA 2007 Chinese New Year Celebration
- Event: 中港研討社春節聯歡晚會
- Time: February 21, 2007, Wednesday, 07:30 p.m.
- Location: 174 Barrows Hall
Join SHKCA in Celebration the Year of the Boar.
There will be food, games and prizes. We are open to suggestions on the choices of food and games. Feel free to leave messages on the wall! We are still in the process of planning the event！
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March 8: SHKCA Game Night Spring 2007
- Event: SHKCA Game Night Spring 2007
- Time: March 8, 2007, Thursday, 07:00 p.m.
- Location: 242 Dwinelle Hall
The Society of Hong Kong and Chinese Affairs will host a free game night for everyone March 8, Thursday evening at 242 Dwinelle Hall. The SHKCA officer and interns have group games planned for everyone, along with the various board games, including cards and mah jong. Take a brake from all your hard work and come have some fun.
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March 21: In Discussion with Mr. Bernt Wahl
- Event: "China: A Nation in Transition"
- Time: March 21, 2007, Wednesday, 07:00 p.m.
- Location: 174 Barrows Hall
The Society of Hong Kong and Chinese Affairs is honored to have U.C. Berkeley Industry Fellow Mr. Bernt Wahl, from the Center of Entrepreneurship and Technology, U.C. Berkeley to speak on his business experiences in Mainland China. This is an open event and everyone is invited to attend this academic seminar.
Bernt has several passions, including starting fun and innovative companies, teaching entrepreneurship, writing books on chaos theory and fractal geometry, and Internet search technology. In his career he has been involved with several start-ups and he has taught over 1,000 university engineering students how to develop new product ideas. Bernt founded Dynamic Software in 1987 while at UC Santa Cruz. Its first products produced mathematical visualization software. Dynamic Interactive -- a spin-off company – started in 1995 was a pioneer Internet commerce company servicing clients that included Microsoft, Sun and Macromedia.
In environmental areas he has worked with the United Nations on Ecotourism and he help the U.S. National Park Service build its first website. He is also interested in social causes including the work done by The International Justice Mission on social issues, and various other organizations’ work on the global dissemination of information.
April 11: In Discussion with Dr. David Fraser
- Event: "Chinese Calendar Posters from the Early 20th Century"
- Time: April 11, 2007, Wednesday, 07:00 p.m.
- Location: 174 Barrows Hall
Dr. David Fraser, Managing Editor of the Asian Survey from UC Berkeley's International and Area Studies Department will speak about his personal collection of old Chinese calendar posters from the early 20th century and the research he has done on them. These posters were very popular during the 1920's and 30's, drawn by various professional artists trained in both western and Chinese art. Such calendars played an important role in shaping the popular urban culture during Republican China..
April 18: In Discussion with Todd Carrel
- Event: "Reflections on reporting in China"
- Time: April 18, 2007, Wednesday, 07:00 p.m.
- Location: 174 Barrows Hall
Todd Carrel is a journalist and reported in Asia for more than a decade as the ABC
News Bureau Chief and correspondent in Beijing and as an Associated Press Reporter in Japan.
He has been a journalist-in-residence at the East-West Center in Hawaii, a Knight International
Press Fellow in Hong Kong, and was a visiting lecturer at the UC's Graduate School of Journalism
last semester at Berkeley.
April 22: In Discussion with Raymond Wong Yuk Man/黃毓民: 三藩市講座
- Event: "回歸十年：香港政治的困局"
- Time: April 22, 2007, Sunday, 02:00 p.m.
- Location: Dr. Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall (S.F. Chinatown)
836 Stockton Street, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Raymond Wong Yuk Man, one of Hong Kong's famous political commentators will give
a talk on "Ten Years Since the Return: The Political Situation of Hong Kong" at the Dr. Sun
Yat Sen Memorial Hall in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Sponsored by the:
Chinese Democracy Education Foundation (CDEF)
UC Berkeley - Society of Hong Kong and Chinese Affairs (SHKCA)
Alliance of Hong Kong Chinese in United States (AHKCUS)
黃毓民先生，香港著名時事政治評論員，4月22日-星期日，在舊金山華埠國父
紀念館 舉辦“回歸十年：香港政治的困局“ 座談會。
April 25: Silicon Valley/Bay Area Career Panel Night
- Event: Meeting with Business Professionals from the Bay Area
- Time: April 25, 2007, Wednesday, 07:00 p.m.
- Location: 118 Barrows Hall
The Society of Hong Kong and Chinese Affairs, in join with the National Association of Asian American Professionals
(NAAAP) San Francisco Chapter is proud to present a Career Panel with various professionals from the Bay Area.
There will be speakers representing various professions, including:
Peter Yu: Director of Business Strategy and Planning at Oracle, has worked as a Senior Manager of International Product
Planning and Consumer Product Marketing for Gateway and as a Team Leader and Management Consultant for Bain & Co.
Peter's other previous experiences include Bain Capital Austral-Asia, TRW, McGraw-Hill, and IBM. He is a Director for
NAAAP-San Francisco. Mr. Yu holds a BS -Haas School of Business, and an MBA with honors - UCLA Anderson
School of Management.
Kiran Jethwa: Chairman of the Board of Directors for NAAAP-San Francisco, MBA-Santa Clara University.
Eric Young: worked as a Lead Capacity Planner for AMD , Lean Manufacturing Engineer and Quality Supervisor for Eaton
Corporation. MSE and BSE in Industrial & Operations Engineering- University of Michigan, will be attending the UCLA
Anderson School of Management for MBA in fall 2007.
May 3: SHKCA Year End Celebration/Elections
- Event: End of Semester Celebration and Elections
- Time: May 03, 2007, Thursday, 07:00 p.m.
- Location: 242 Barrows Hall
The SHKCA Year End Celebration and Elections is coming up. Come join us to say farewell to the graduating officers and members, and to elect and meet the new officers for 2007-2008. Free food and refreshments will be provided, event is free and open to everyone.