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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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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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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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 – 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/
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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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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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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By Baiyun Yao
I traveled to Arizona in March 2012 with friends. I was total amazed by the colors and wilderness of the red rock country. I would like to share the excitement I felt when I was in awe of Nature’s beauty with these pictures.
Antelope Canyon
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By Anping Shen, ED. D.
Jason was born in China and went through from pre-‐school to graduate school in the United States. During his junior year at the Newton North High School, Newton, MA, Jason was selected as a member of the USA National Man’s Junior Gymnastics Team. In 2009, Jason was a co-‐captain of Stanford Man’s Gymnastics team, which won both the NCAA man’s gymnastics national championship and academic championship titles (the first team in the history of man’s gymnastics to win both titles in the same year). Upon his graduation from Stanford in 2009, he served as Chief Operating Officer for the Stanford Daily newspaper company and then worked as a sales rep for a startup in Silicon Valley. He co-founded an online company (www.ridejoy.com) in San Francisco in May of 2011. He was back visiting his parents recently and talked to his father about his (real) company and passion for a healthy, competitive and purposeful life.
Jason Shen was competing in a recent triathlon event.
“You Should Realize That There Is No Point Of Living Your Life to Meet Other People’s Expectation. It’s Not Their Life, It Is MY Life.”
-Jason Shen