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  • GBCCA Chinese Music Ensemble Presents a Suona Seminar Given by Guo Yazhi

    By GBCCA Chinese Music Ensemble

    Mr. Guo is a renowned suona soloist, and former principal suona of Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. This seminar is co-sponsored by Harvard Tea Party.

    Saturday, December 1st
    2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
    Science Center, Lecture Hall A, Harvard University
    1 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA (Map: map.harvard.edu/?bld=04420 )
    Free Admission

    Guo was the chief suona musician of Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, founding president of Hong Kong Suona Association, National Band Music Research Director of Chinese Musician Association, meanwhile employed by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a guest instructor.

    This photo of Mr. Guo was taken in April 2012 at Berklee College of Music by David Li.
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  • Mascot Named “Fuleco” for 2014 World Cup Brazil

    (from cntv.cn)

    Brazil’s 2014 FIFA World Cup mascot, a blue and yellow armadillo…now officially has a name. Following an online vote, the armadillo was baptized on Sunday as “Fuleco”, a word which organisers say transmits a message of environmental awareness.
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  • Gwei Lun-mei, Lau Ching-wan, Life without Principle and Beijing Blues Win Golden Horses

    (from chinapost.com.tw)

    Taiwanese actress Gwei Lun-mei (桂錀媄) was honored with the Best Leading Actress award at the 49th Golden Horse Film Festival, yesterday.

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  • You Are Invited to Boston Guzheng Ensemble’s 10th Anniversary Concert in Lexington

    By Boston Guzheng Ensemble

    Join us for an enchanted evening of Chinese music! To celebrate of 10th anniversary the Boston Guzheng Ensemble will present a concert with Chinese traditional folk tunes, new composition, and Chinese pop song. The guzheng is a Chinese 21-string zither and the ensemble is the only guzheng ensemble in New England.

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  • BSHC’s Annual Celebration and Fundraiser Raised over $100K

    Boston — Boston Senior Home Care (BSHC) hosted its Annual Celebration and Fundraiser on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at the elegant and historic Fairmont Copley Plaza, Boston. With the holiday season just around the corner, friends and supporters of BSHC enjoyed an evening of fine dining and live music.

    From left: Michael Maggiacomo (outgoing BSHC Board President), Linda George (BSHC Executive Director), William and Mary Jane Restuccia (owners of Emily’s Family Foods and platinum sponsors of event), Paul Wong (incoming BSHC Board President), Andrew Brown (BSHC Board Secretary), Sol Sidell (BSHC Board Second Vice President), and Joanne McMahan (BSHC Director of Development and Quality Assurance).
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  • New Study Links Lower Fertility Rates to Female Off-farm Employment in China

    Cambridge Mass. — Women in China’s workforce have significantly lower fertility rates than those who are not employed. That is one finding in a new Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Working Paper co-authored by HKS Professor Richard Zeckhauser.
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  • Director Niu Chen Zer Wants to Elevate Mandarin Film

    TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Golden Horse-nominated director Niu Chen Zer says he gets tremendous joy doing work he loves and he’s found a new way to share it with the world.

    Director Niu (middle) attending a press conference in Taipei.
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  • “Sodium Energy” Wins 2012 MIT CHIEF Pitch to China Business Plan Contest

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Cambridge, Mass. — In the afternoon of Nov. 18, 2012, the Winner of 2012 MIT CHIEF Business Plan contest was announce at the MIT China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (CHIEF) at Stata Center in MIT. “Sodium Energy”, a clean energy project by MIT students Kai Xiang Zheng Li, won the first place award, and the $10,000 grand prize.

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  • Soprano Yan Lian’s Debut Concert at St. Paul’s Parish Church Draws Rave Reviews

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Malden, Mass. — Just a little over a year ago, Yan Lian was a student at South China Normal University, and Attila Dobak was studying singing in Italy. They might never have imaged that one day they would share the stage, singing a classic duet together. Famous for its world-class universities like Harvard and M.I.T., Boston is also becoming a magnet for talented young musicians and singers from around the world in recent years.

    On Saturday, November 10, Soprano Yan Lian’s Boston debut concert was held at St. Paul’s Parish Church in Malden, Mass. About 200 people packed the historical church, and were in festival mood as the holiday season was just around the corner. They enjoyed the classic Western songs as well as favorite Chinese folk songs, like the Jasmine folk song from Jiangshu province and the Dragon Boat folk song from Hubei province.

    Lian (left) and Dobak performing Duet I Love You So.
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  • BU Student Chung-Wei Yang Struck by a Bus Riding a Bike Died in Hospital

    BOSTON, Nov. 16, (AP) — The Boston University student who died when the bicycle he was riding came in contact with an MBTA bus has been identified as an international relations major from Taiwan.

    Chung-Wei Yang was struck and killed while riding a bike. (Photo from BU Today)
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