Boston, Dec. 31, 2015, — The Night of Opera, Ms. Ying Wu’s graduate recital concert, will be held on Jan.23 (Saturday 7:00 PM) at Longy School of Music of Bard College (27 Garden St. Cambridge Pick Man Hall). The concert will be directed by Robert Honeysucker.
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Mezzo-soprano Ying Wu to Hold The Night of Opera Concert on Jan. 23
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Xiamen to Host First Ironman Event in China
BEIJING, Dec. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Wanda Sports Holdings Co. signed a cooperation agreement with the Xiamen Municipal Government on December 24. Under the agreement, Xiamen will become the first city to host Ironman events in China.
Wang Jianlin, CEO of Wanda Group, lectures at Harvard University.
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Chinese Consulate Hosts 2016 New Year Reception in Boston
By Xinming Li, bostonese.com
Boston, Dec. 29, 2015, — Close to 300 guests attended 2016 New Year Reception at Boston Harbor Hotel hosted by Chinese Consulate General in New York yesterday evening. Ambassador Zhang Qiyue, Consul General of the Chinese Consulate, delivered a speech that highlighted the achievements in Sino-US relations over the past year. Representatives of Gov. Baker and Mayor Walsh along with elected officials attended the reception.
Ambassador Zhang(3rd from right, front row) and members of Chinese Progressive Association pose for a picture (photos by Xinming Li).
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Rising Star — Wellesley College Wushu Team
By Li Qiang, translated by Cecille Yang
Located in the western Boston suburbs, Wellesley College is the famed alma mater of notable female Chinese figures like Soong Mei-Ling and Bing Xing and US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. Recently, the Wellesley Wushu Team attended the 2015 Cultural Day event on campus, featuring a 9-minute wushu performance with demonstrations on all sorts of Chinese weapons： straight sword, broadsword, three-section cudgel and staff. Their performances garnered enthusiastic cheering from about a thousand audience members composed of distinguished professors and students alike.
Group picture of Wellesley College Wushu Team （photos provided to bostonese.com).
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Pictures from Singtao Meiya Book Club Xmas Lecture
Photos by Fenfang Mei
The first lecture of Singtao Meiya Book Club was held on Dec. 19, 2015 at Singtao Daily office in Boston Chinatown. Ms. Shuping Yao, Mr. Bin Liu and Mr. Tianhan Guo were the three speakers for this event. This is the first ever lecture by the Singtao Meiya Book Club.
Please check out some pictures by photographer Fenfang Mei below.
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Tsinghua Graduate Introduces Healthy Chinese Food in the US
New York City, Dec. 23, 2015, (xinhua) — “The Chinese food is popular in the United States. There are more than 43,000 establishments, and with an annual sales of over 25 billion dollars, it is the secondly most popular takeout cuisine in America,” said Wang Rui, a co-founder of Cuckoo Kitchen.
Screen shot of Cuckoo’s website on Dec. 23, 2015.
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Near 100 People Missing after Landslide in Shenzhen, China
Shenzhen, China, Dec. 21, 2015,（Xinhua） — Seventy-eight excavators and 1,200 rescuers have been added to the operation searching for the 91 people missing after Sunday’s landslide in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
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Register Now: 2016 Chinese New Year Indoor Soccer Tournament
Boston, Dec. 17, 2015, — Youth soccer players, a long snowy winter is cancelling good chances of playing soccer outdoors. Do you have a strong hunger for footballing due to inclement weather conditions? Stronger than ever?
Soccer players clear a field after a blizzard in early 2015.
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World Internet Conference — ‘White-hat’ Hackers Key Force in Cyber Security
Wuzhen, China, Dec. 17, 2015 (source: China Daily, Cao Yin) — A very small office near the Sixth Ring Road in Beijing houses a very big dream, one that’s shared by thousands of Internet security enthusiasts across China.
Internet security enthusiasts participate in a session related to the prevention of telecommunications fraud during a forum organized by Wooyun, China’s largest online “white-hat” hacker community, held in Beijing in July. (Photo/China Daily)
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Transnationalism and 1930s British Cinema
By Na Ma, Ohio Univeristy
The forms and institutions of mainstream British cinema have a hegemonic function. In fact, British Cinema is generally considered to have successfully shaped “the national life” and achieved a “high degree of consensus” (Adamthwaite 288). This significant element undoubtedly characterizes British society and contributed to the remarkable stability of British society[1] during the 1930s, when the United Kingdom, like most other countries in the world, was shaken by economic depression, but which had also experienced several labor turmoil in the mid 1920s.
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