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Beijing’s new “travel ambassadors” discuss the rise of opera in China

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On January 27, Let’s travel! radio invited Peng Zeng, Assistant Director of Children and Youth program together with Alice Mong, Exec. Dir., of the new Museum of China in America and Mr. BSH Jin, Dir., China National Tourist Office to talk about Chinese New Year traditions and the wonderful prospect of traveling to China in the Year of the Rabbit.

In a city of theatrics and theater, two hallmarks of the Chinese culture, food and Peking Opera, have been packaged and delivered to doorsteps for several years by a 52-year-old man who grew up during the “cultural revolution” (1966-1976).

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Last Friday, Jing Daily attended the second part of the China Institute’s “Archaeology of Beers” series, featuring “the Indiana Jones of Ancient Ales, Wines, and Extreme Beverages,” Dr. Patrick McGovern (Uncorking the Past). Following up the first installment of the program, at which Dogfish Head Brewery founder and president Sam Calagione discussed his partnership with Dr. McGovern and their joint recreations of ancient beverages discovered at archaeological sites in places like Turkey, Honduras, and China, Dr. McGovern covered the legacy of alcohol and brewing from prehistory to today.

This isn’t your silly, average, little beer tasting. This is the second of a two part series “jointly hosted by Dogfish Head Brewery’s founder and president Sam Calagione, Dr. Patrick McGovern of U Penn, and Dr. Agnes Hsu, China Institute’s Resident Scholar.”

In New York for the opening this weekend of a major work at MoMA P.S. 1, Beijing-based artist Feng Mengbo spoke Tuesday night at the China Institute, offering a survey of his artistic development, his engagement with youth culture and video-game imagery, and his lifelong fascination with technology and machinery. This talk came as his recent Yi Bi Te exhibition at the Chambers Fine Art gallery in Chelsea ended and Long March: Restart is set to open on Sunday at MoMA PS1.

Last week, New York’s China Institute hosted a discussion by Senior Lecturer Ben Wang and a performance of classical vignettes by Yang Yu Bao, the “Singing Delivery Man,” the subject of a recent profile by the New York Daily News. The lecture and performance was inspired by an image in the China Institute’s current Chinese woodcut exhibit as well as the institute’s sponsorship of Peking Opera star Mei Lanfang’s New York tour in 1930. Ben Wang began by describing how he first heard Peking Opera in the form of one of Mei’s records and grew to love it. After briefly discussing the history of Peking Opera, Wang introduced Yang Yu Bao, a performer that Wang considers one of the best he’s ever seen.

Last night, at the China Institute in New York, Jing Daily attended the first of two Art Salons for the fall season, focusing on the work of two American contemporary artists working in uniquely Chinese styles: painter Arnold Chang and photographer Michael Cherney. Introduced by China Institute President Sara Judge McCalpin to the sell-out crowd, Chang and Cherney discussed their artistic backgrounds and processes, turning then to the topic of their recent collaborations, which blend aspects of traditional Chinese ink painting with photography and speak to a broader theme in today’s art world of what Chang referred to as “artistic globalization.”

Last night, New York’s CUE Art Foundation hosted a night of fashion organized by the China Institute’s Young Associates program to foster the next generation of China Institute patrons. The fashion show, broken up into two parts – “Fashion Then” and “Fashion Now” — first featured examples of traditional Chinese fashion, then showcased the work of four up-and-coming Asian-American fashion designers, complemented by a jewelry display by ken + dana.

First Evidence Of Fermented Grain Beverage Found At Jiahu, Modern-Day Henan Province In 1962
Dogfish Head’s Chateau Jiahu is based on molecular analysis of 9,000 year old pottery

Keep an eye on Jing Daily this Friday for our exclusive coverage of the first session of the China Institute’s “Archaeology of Beers: Tastings of Ancient Ales” lecture series. We’ll be attending the first session on October 7, where host Sam Calagione, the founder and president of Dogfish Head Brewery — one of America’s fastest-growing and most well-respected craft breweries — will introduce some of the ancient beers his company has re-created with the help of Dr. Patrick McGovern, a leading molecular archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1999, Calagione and McGovern have worked together to bring some of the world’s earliest beer specimens, found in places as far-flung as Honduras, China and Turkey, back to life.

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Industry analysts say they are confident that China, among other emerging nations, will continue being the star of initial public offerings (IPOs) in 2010, and the US capital market would still be its first choice.

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JOINING HANDS: The China Institute Executive Summit in Beijing on April 27-28 provides a forum for economists and business leaders from China and the United States to weigh their cooperation in fighting the economic crisis.

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The teachers were invited by the China Institute to participate in the Teach China Program, a study tour that focuses on the issues pertaining to education in rural areas.

BEIJING, April 27, 2009 – China Institute, the New York City based cultural and educational nonprofit institution focused exclusively on China, opened the 5th Annual China Institute Executive Summit in Beijing, China this morning.

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CI@CI HOSTS FIRST NORTHEAST REGIONAL CONFUCIUS INSTITUTES CONFERENCE

CHINA INSTITUTE-CHINA RELIEF FUND DONATES $750,000 FOR BUILDING SUSTAINABLE SCHOOLS IN EARTHQUAKE-DAMAGED SICHUAN PROVINCE

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China Institute in New York City, founded in 1926, is the oldest establishment of its kind in the United States. Radio86 spoke with Nancy Jervis, the institute’s vice president and Confucius Institute dean, about the growing interest in the West towards China.

Long before the invention of film the Chinese developed a remarkable art form of moving images. Shadow puppets, made of pierced and embossed rawhide and manipulated with sticks behind an illuminated screen of transparent cloth, entertained both emperors and rural peasants. Accompanied by music, shadow theater brought good luck at weddings and offered welcome distraction at funerals.

What an outlandish sight Buddhist monks must have been when they first turned up more than a millennium ago in China, a land where only criminals — the disgraced and the dangerous — had shaved heads, wore patched-together clothes and begged for food.

China’s growing prosperity and the soaring prices for contemporary Chinese art make it easy to forget that the country first opened its doors to modernization in the late 1970s, when Mao’s successor Deng Xiaoping introduced capitalist-oriented market reforms. Deng also removed restrictions on the flow of information in China, which allowed foreign ideas to flourish. Most of this information arrived not via the Internet, of course, but in the form of books.