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  • New England Got Talent, Notes from the Chinese Bridge College Student Talent Competition

    By David Li, bostonese.com, photo and video provided by Yi Sun of UMass Boston

    The second annual New England Chinese Bridge college student talent competition was held at UMass Boston on March 10. Sixteen finalists from colleges across New England participated in the competition. Due to increasing popularity of this event, University of Massachusetts Confucius Institute has decided to make this competition an annual event.

    Kathleen Teehan, director of University of Massachusetts Confucius Institute
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  • From Mobile Technology Conference to Online Gaming Webinar, NECINA Focuses on the Cutting Edge

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    In the morning of March 31, there was a dusting of snow north of Boston. New England Chinese Information & Network Association (NECINA) held a tech conference titled Mobile Technology for Enterprise and Consumer Markets at Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. Over 100 NECINA members attended the conference, with a dozen or so standing in the back of the conference room during the three-hour talk and panel discussion.

    Speakers and NECINA organizers at the mobile conference
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  • Chinese Lion Dance Came to Metrowest, I-495

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    For many years, Chinese lion dance has been performed in Boston Chinatown around Chinese New Year, which is also known as Spring Festival. 2012 is the Year of Dragon according to Chinese calendar, and celebration of the Spring Festival made its way westward to I-495 belt this year. Lion dancers from Wah Lun Kung Fu of Concord brought this traditional Chinese New Year celebration to an Internet company in Westford, and a Montessori school in Littleton.
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  • Bridging Industry and Academia – An Interview with MIT Industrial Liaison Expert Dr. Graham Rong

    By David Li, translation by Li Tan

    Graham Rong is the chairman of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. Under his leadership, the CIO Symposium has become one of the most influential forums for the IT industry, attracting CIOs and other top executives from numerous major international corporations to this annual conference. On December 9, 2011, I had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Dr. Rong at his office at MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) center.

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  • DaXun Zhang and Tomoko Kashiwagi To Delight Music Fans at Jordan Hall

    中華表演藝術基金會

    Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts

    Presents

    DaXun Zhang張達尋, Double Bass

    Tomoko Kashiwagi柏木知子, piano

    Saturday, April 7, 2012, 8 PM



    Picture of DaXun Zhang from 2010.
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  • Winners of White House Video Contest, Local High School Students Prepare a Trip of a Lifetime

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    On April 5, twelve teen students from Charlestown High School, most of them immigrated to Boston area with their families from China less than three years ago, will participate in a White House meeting as winners of a video contest. Started as a joint project between Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center(BCNC) and Charlestown High School, the Chinese Immigrant Student Leadership (ChISL) program played a major role in preparing these immigrant students transitioning from timid newcomers in school to leaders of tomorrow.

    Charlestown High School students who participated in the video contest.
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  • Boston BioForum 2012 To Be Held on April 7 at MIT

    Boston BioForum 2012 – Meeting the Challenges Through Innovation
    CABA(Chinese-American BioMedical Association) Annual Conference

    Date: Saturday, April 7, 2012; 8:30 AM – 9:00 PM
    Venue: MIT Faculty Club, 50 Memorial Drive, Bldg E52, 6th Floor; Cambridge, MA
    CABA Website: http://www.cabaweb.org/

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  • Ying Wu’s Vocal Classes Celebrated Year of Dragon with Beautiful Songs

    By David Li, translation by Jun Yang

    On the afternoon and evening of January 28, Ying Wu’s vocal classes held a Chinese New Year’s concert in Hancock United Church of Christ in Lexington, Mass.

    As a special guest, Kristy Lee, New England’s only 24-hour news TV station NECN’s morning news anchor, hosted the concert. The daughter of the Korean-American anchor is also a student of Ms. Ying Wu. Piano accompaniment was by Boston’s renowned pianist David Collins.

    Kristy Lee hosting the concert (photo by Mingwei Li).
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  • “Spring, its softness is disarming and its light comforting” – A Painter’s Note In Spring and Selected Paintings

    By Sophia Yee, painter and poet

    Spring allows me to express myself fully and freely in a dynamic movement of colors,shapes, lines, light and shadows and to capture the essence of the moment and perhaps the light and shadow that raises me from a sinking mood and a dead spirit. Spring speaks in a unique language that I am eager to learn and digest, to succumb to what is necessary in order to have a meaningful dialogue within the framework of the existing time and space. It is my desire to recreate a time and space in the forms of my canvases; to rediscover and reconstruct a new and to retrieve a ground that I am intent to gain. It is also an opportunity to unveil the mystery and to submit to the self to minimize the feeling of longing, losing and belonging and to come to understand the pain, the joy and the dreary.
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  • From Chemistry Engineer to Comedian – A Dialogue with Joe Wong

    By David Li, photo by Han Yan, bostonese.com

    In the afternoon of March 25, MIT Chinese Student and Scholar Association (CSSA) Career Development team hosted a special lecture, titled “From chemistry engineer to comedian – a dialogue with Joe Wong” at classroom 35-225 at MIT. Well-known Chinese American comedian Joe Wong shared his experience from a chemistry engineer to a stand-up comedian with over 100 attendees.

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