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Semester's Events of Spring 2005
Events from Spring 2006*These events are subject to change
January 26: Semi-Annual Orientation
- Location: 56 Barrows
- Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Everyone is welcome!!!
- Are you looking for something fun to do this Wednesday?
- If you do, here's what you might want to check out!!!!
- Come join us for Semi-Annual Orientation!!!!
- Full of Excitement and Suprises!!!
February 2: Game Night (Chinese calligraphy, Majong, Poker, and more)
- Location: 283 Dwinelle
- Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Everyone is welcome!!!
- Are you looking for something fun to do this Wednesday?
- If you do, here's what you might want to check out!!!!
- Come join us for Game Night!!!!
- Have you ever written in Chinese calligraphy (using Chinese traditional writing tools)?
February 16: Chinese New Year Celebration
- Location: 283 Dwinelle
- Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Everyone is welcome!!! Do you know what is Chinese New Year? Do you want to learn some Chinese New Year sayings and the meaning of different food? Rice Cakes, Sweet Rice Balls, Fried Dumplings, and other Traditional Chinese New Year Snacks!! If you do, here's what you might want to check out!!!! Come join us for Chinese New Year Celebration!!!!
February 23: Movie Night: Mao Tsetung's Last Great Battle
- Location: 54 Barrows
- Time: 6:00- 8:00 pm
The Topic:
A documentary on China?s Cultural Revolution, its massive impact on the life of the Chinese in the period between 1965-1968, and how Mao came to resist the class of intellectuals.
March 3: Talk: The Flying Tigers and The U.S. in China during WWII - A Personal Experience
- Location: 283 Dwinelle
- Time: 7:00- 9:00 pm
Speaker Info:
Harry Kendall is a Research Associate with the Institute of East Asian Studies. He grew up in Louisiana and served two years with the U.S. Air Force in China during World War II. Following the war he used the GI bill to obtain a BA in journalism and political science at Louisiana State University, an MA in international relations at Yale, and did PhD work at the University of North Carolina. After working a short time as a reporter for the Charlotte NC Observer, he joined the US Foreign Service and spent the next three decades as an information and cultural officer, now known as public diplomacy. That service took him to Latin America, Europe and East Asia--where he served in Japan, Vietnam and Thailand. Upon retirement from the Foreign Service in 1980 he joined Berkeley's Institute of East Asian Studies as coordinator of international conferences. This work took him back to China and virtually every country in Asia. Following his second retirement he has collaborated with books on Korea, Vietnam, and Mongolia and has published two books on his military and foreign service experience. Though retired once more, he continues his work with the Institute tutoring visiting scholars from Korea in conversational English.
March 11: Chinese Music Night: Zither Performance
- Location: 102 Wurster Hall
- Time: 6:30- 7:30 pm
Gu-Zheng - seven-stringed zither without bridges, the most classical Chinese instrument with over 3000 years of history. It is literally called qin yet commonly known as "guqin" where "gu" stands for ancient. Confucius (around 600 BC) was a master of this instrument. To learn to play qin used to be regarded as a very important element for education for the purpose of enriching the heart and elevating human spirit. In Imperial China, a scholars and ladies of the high society were expected to master the four arts, namely, the qin (guqin), qi (weiqi or Go), shu (Calligraphy), and hua (painting). The guqin has historically been regarded as the symbol of Chinese high culture. Unfortunately only small number of people in China could play the instrument, because classical musical education of this kind has never reached general public.
Performer's Info:
- 9yr, I started zither training;
- 1995: Since 11yr, I successively represented China's youth ensemble to perform the zither in Denmark, Holland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Israel, and Jordan;
- 1997: 13yr, I won 2nd place in China's National "Da-feng Cup" zither competition's professional teenagers' division;
- 1999: 15yr, came to the US alone for school;
- 2002: 18yr, won 3rd place in China's "Century-Star" professional zither competition, and also held my own instrumental and singing concert, "Journey of the Beloved."
- 2004: April, won Excellent Singers' Award in Chinese' National TV Singing Contest - American Division;
- 2004: August, won 2nd place in China's "Fang-Yin Cup" professional zither competition &the Best Performance Award;
- 2004: September, My zither teacher, Ms. Li Jing Sha, and I finished recording the first ever Chinese/English zither teaching DVD, which will be released in summer 2005;
- Currently appointed to the board of directors for Shen-Zhen Zither Society.
- Location: 283 Dwinelle
- Time: 7:00- 9:00pm
The Speaker: Professor Xiu Liu
Xin Liu is Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley. Trained in Britain (SOAS), his main research interests concern the development of other modern experiences, with particular reference to East Asian societies. He is the author of In One's Own Shadow (UC Press, 2000) and The Otherness of Self (U. Michigan Press, 2004). His most recent publication is an edited volume: New Reflections on Anthropological Studies of (greater) China (2004, the IEAS, UC Berkeley).
April 13: Talk: Chi analysis of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China - from the perspective of of Black Sect Tantric Buddhism
- Location: 200 Wheeler
- Time: 7:00- 9:00pm
Professor Thomas Lin-Yun Info:
Grandmaster Lin-Yun is famous for his theory of chi to read and assess ch'i of individual, of environment, of society, of economy, of nation, and of the world.His Holiness Grandmaster Professor Thomas Lin-Yun is the founder and supreme leader of the contemporary Black Sect Tantric Buddhism at its fourth stage. His teachings are comprehensive, philosophical, and spiritual. It incorporates the essence of Confucianism, Taoism, Yin-Yang philosophy, Eclecticism, Exoteric Buddhism, Esoteric Buddhism, I-Ching, Theory of Ch'i, holistic healing, feng shui, and folkloric studies. As a distinguished philosopher and foremost authority on feng shui, Professor Lin-Yun lectures extensively at the invitation of academic institutions and religious communities all over the world.
April 20: Talk: Village Architecture in Guangdong Province - by Professor Mui Ho
* Location: 283 Dwinelle
* Date: April 20, 2005 (Wednesday)
* Time: 7:00- 9:00pmEveryone is welcome!!!
- Are you interested Chinese Architecture Design?
- If you do, here's what you should want to check out!!!!The Speaker Info:
Mui Ho is Principal of Mui Ho, Architect. Recent projects include Hong Nam New Town and Peizheng Technical College Visiting Faculty Housing and Student Dormitories, China; True Sunshine Episcopal Church, San Francisco; Storefront Improvement Project funded by HUD for CCDC, San Francisco; as well as residential and commercial work and housing for disadvantaged communities. Honors include the Distinguished Professor Award from ACSA; Gensler Chair Visiting Critic, Cornell University; Distinguished Alumni Award, Cornell Asian Alumni Association; Julia Morgan Award for outstanding professional achievement and the advancement of women in architecture. Teaching includes design studios, thesis preparation and seminars on Chinese vernacular architecture. Professor Ho is also engaged in ongoing research on vernacular buildings of China.
May 4: Election and End of Year Party
Past Events:
Events from Spring 2005
Events from Spring 2004
Events from Fall 2003