一個月前，中華文化中心尋根團凱旋歸來，昨天，帶隊的團長鄭國和在接受採訪時連聲稱讚“不虛此行！”

雖然，每年一屆的尋根團已組織了18屆，每次鄭國和帶領隊員們都有不少收穫，他介紹，此次尋根破了多項歷史紀錄：訪問的地級市及縣區數量最多、拍攝的照片最多（達300G，近10萬張照片）、因感動而流淚的人最多。

他們7月5日出發，7月26日返回，訪問了香港、廣州、台山、開平、中山、江門、三水、花都、南海、潮州、汕頭、揭陽、梅縣共13地，“浪漫的珠江夜遊、沉澱著歷史記憶的碉樓、鮮甜美味的海鮮都讓大家樂而忘返” ，鄭國和講述行程的細節，仍沉浸在美好的回憶中。 Read More »

When: September 13, 2008 (Saturday, 1:00 pm)
Where: Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny St, 4th Floor, “Pine” meeting room, San Francisco
Admission: FREE (RSVP Encouraged)

Chinese Culture Center Cinema (C4) is pleased to present a special installment of our current film festival. Alongside our screening of Farming the Seas, we are holding a workshop to discuss and learn about the issues facing seafood resources and their relevance to us as individuals and as a community. Read More »

The Fall 2008 Classes will be held for 10 weeks, beginning on September 27, and ending on December 13 (break on the week of Columbus Day and Thanksgiving). For this upcoming session, we will have both weekend and weekday adult mandarin classes, including Beginner, Advanced Beginner and Intermediate. Read More »

When: September 5, 2008 (Friday, 6:00 pm)
Where: Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny St, 3rd Floor, San Francisco
Admission: $5 public, $3 member
The Chinese Culture Center is pleased to present “Colonel Jin Xing: A Unique Destiny” 上尉金星 (2001). The film will be played in English.
Co-presenters: GAPA(Gay Asian Pacific Alliance), APIQWTC(Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women & Transgender Community), ON Magazine, QWOCMAP(Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project).

Shanghai’s principal dancer, 33-year-old Jin Xing, is a big star. She is the first choreographer to have received recognition in over half a century of national communism. But the most amazing thing about Jin Xing is that, up until 1995, this beautiful young woman was a man, a colonel in the People’s Liberation Army. Despite Jin Xing’s transcendence in the dance world, however, she is still up against the Chinese bureaucracy which refuses to give her permission to perform on the stages of the Western world. Read More »

Test your puzzle-solving skills on challenging new puzzles and old classics. Bring your favorite puzzles to share with others. Make puzzles out of common household items for your family and friends. All ages and skill levels welcome! Led by puzzle collector Stan Isaacs and science teacher Curt Gabrielson, with special presentation by Wei Zhang at 2 pm.

At the Chinese Culture Center on August 30th 2008, from 12 to 4 pm.
Admission is free and open to everyone.

Poster by Niana Liu

When: August 29, 2008 (Friday, 6:00 pm)
Where: Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny St, 3rd Floor, San Francisco
Admission Fee: $5 public, $3 member
C4 is proud to present the US Premier “Searching for Lin Zhao’s Soul”, AKA In Search of Lin Zhao’s Soul 寻找林昭的灵魂 (2004) in Mandarin with English subtitles.

This documentary film is about the outstanding Beijing University student Lin Zhao, who was labeled a rightist when she criticized the Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1950s. She was imprisoned and later executed. In Philip Pan’s recent book “Out of Mao’s Shadow”, two chapters were written about this documentary, quoting the filmmaker Hu Jie about Lin Zhao: “(the film is) inspired by her courage, and her uncompromising sense of justice… It was extraordinary that a great woman like Lin Zhao once lived in China… I thought she was a national treasure.”

This film is co-presented by WACSF (World Affairs Council San Francisco),AAWAA(Asian American Women Artists Association), IMOW (International Museum of Women), OACC(Oakland Asian Cultural Center), CCS(Center for Chinese Study) in UC Berkeley.

For more information about C4, and a listing of the entire year’s program, visit our 2008 Film Series page.



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