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 »