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Presentation by Mr. Weiming Lu on Historic Beijing vs. Modern Metropolis:
Challenges of the 2008 Olympics Planning as part of China Today.

Mr. Weiming Lu, a distinguished urban planner, a numerous international design awards
recipient, an accomplished calligrapher, and an adviser to the City of Beijing and a
committee member of Beijing Olympic Screening Committee. In this brawn bag session,
Mr. Lu will address questions such as:

•How does Beijing, an ancient city of many historic sites, remake itself into a modern
metropolis for the coming Summer Olympics?
•What types of modern buildings/infrastructures have been built around Beijing and what
are the impacts?
•How did the city of Beijing seek creative ideas for planning the 2008 Olympics through
an international design competition?

A questions & answers session will follow after the presentation.

The East Asian Library will provide fresh tea and light Chinese treats.

Date: Wednesday (May 21st)
Time: 11:45am-1:00pm
Place: East Asian Library, Wilson Library Subbasement, West Bank

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Yi Yi, directed by Edward Yang (2000), shows how each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries.

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US Department of State
Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP)

Applications (due 5/16) to host an exchange teacher are currently
available for download at www.tclprogram.org. TCLP is a great program
that provides schools opportunities to develop and/or expand their
Chinese or Arabic language programs. Our program, through a grant from
the US Department of State, provides teachers' salaries, health care,
airfare, visa support, training, follow-up workshops, professional
development funds, and grant opportunities to support school
partnerships and educational exchanges. Schools interested in hosting a
teacher should feel free to contact me directly.

Ben Dunbar
Program Manager, Teacher Programs
American Councils for International Education
(202) 833-7522 / (202) 833-7523 (f)
www.americancouncils.org
www.tclprogram.org

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Professor Diane Tedick provides this info:

Hi all—

In case you haven’t heard about these:

The Confucius Institute at Michigan State has developed a number of online Chinese resources:

http://confucius.msu.edu/resources.htm

the University of Maryland’s National Foreign Language Center has developed a website to help high school students learn to read Chinese and to provide support for teachers:

http:/www.nflc.org/projects/current_projects/used_chinese_los

An index of Chinese characters for downloading can be found at:

http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc.htm

Hope you find them useful.

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Look for the critically acclaimed debut film by noted Chinese Opera director Chen Shi-Zheng at a theatre near you: darkmatterthefilm.com.

"The feature film debut of renowned opera and theater Chen Shi-Zheng, DARK MATTER delves into the world of Liu Xing (Chinese for "Shooting Star"), a Chinese science student pursuing a Ph.D. in the U.S. in the early 1990s. Driven by ambition, yet unable to navigate academic politics, Liu Xing is inexorably pushed to the margins of American life, until he loses his way..."

From China Books

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*Educators meet in Minneapolis for groundbreaking summit*Sometimes the quest to learn is so great, people will travel greatdistances to do so. ... Forty school principals from China are inMinneapolis this week for a groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind U.S.-ChinaPrincipal's Summit at the University of Minnesota.
KARE - TV

To view:http://www.kare11.com/news/olympics/olympics_article.aspx?storyid=509413

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