CCC e-Newsletter > Beijing

Five Animal Frolics (5-2): tiger Thursday, Nov.10, 10am

A 1,800 Year Old Chinese Exercise System for Fitness, Good Health and Longevity still practiced today. These gentle, fun and playful exercises relax muscles, stretch tendons, open joints, stimulate the spine, exercise internal organs, detoxify, g >>> more

Foot Massage Friday, Nov.11-Dec.2, 10am

4-session of foot massage and reflexology course is conducted in small group with English narration. >>> more

Weekend Trip: Datong (Grottoes & Hanging Monastery) Sat./Sun., Nov.12-13

CCC guides you to see the second-largest of the nearly 51,000 sandstone statues of Buddha in 53 Yungang grottoes. Buddhist cave art began here in Datong, 160 miles west of Beijing, in the fifth century, by Xianbei minority, which ruled Northern Chin >>> more

Peking Opera Makeup & Performance Saturday, Nov.12, 2pm

CCC will invite veteran Peking Opera artists to teach how to do the spectacular while complicated opera makeup. A male artist will demonstrate how to do the opera face-painting for hua lian role; then another artist will show how to do the make-u >>> more

Screening: Coal Miner Saturday, Nov.12, 8pm

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Beijing Amblers: Pagoda Forest & Pines Sunday, Nov.13, 9:30am-5:30pm

This Sunday the Beijing Amblers is going to check out the three following spots: --Pagoda Forest (largest Pagoda forest in Beijing) --Tan Zhe Temple (1,700 years monastery with 10 sights and various old trees and bamboo) --Ordination Temple (la >>> more

Chinese Sword Play at Park Monday, Nov.14, 10:30am

Learn Chinese swordsmanship with outstanding Chinese Martial Arts practitioner in Ditan park. All people, beginners or the advanced alike, are welcomed, just join us to stretch yourself after a long week sitting. >>> more

Talk & screening: Chinese prostitution Wednesday, Nov.16, 8pm

This is a documentary film and talk of how the famous "red lantern" district of Eight Hutongs in south Beijing were raided with PLA soldiers and prostitution banned within just one night, upon the founding of New China in 1949, and It goes on to show >>> more

Book Club: "Soul Mountains" Thursday, November 17, 7:30pm

Soul Mountain is the semi-autobiographical tale of Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian who, threatened with arrest in 1983 for his "counter-revolutionary writings", fled Beijing and spent five months travelling the remote regions of southern and >>> more

Tour: Peking Opera School Thursday, Nov.17, 9am-12:30pm

Visit a Beijing Opera School and see how the students are trained everyday during the class and check out the costume room for wide selection of costumes and props. >>> more

Five Animal Frolics (5-3): bear Thursday, Nov.17, 10am

A 1,800 Year Old Chinese Exercise System for Fitness, Good Health and Longevity still practiced today. These gentle, fun and playful exercises relax muscles, stretch tendons, open joints, stimulate the spine, exercise internal organs, detoxify, g >>> more

Stage: Authentic Mongolian songs & dance Friday, November 18, 8pm

CCC invites excellent songsters and dancers to perform at CCC and introduce their music, musical instruments, as well as the folk custom and culture. Audience will be taught to sing along and dance with these minority artists. >>> more

Shangyuan Established Artists Village Tour Saturday, November 19, 10am-3pm

Note: This is a different group of artists with that in Soongzhuang, Tongzhou District. Shangyuan artists are more acedemic artists, relatively older and have had established their fame in China and abroad. CCC arranges appointments with 5 distinc >>> more

Weekend Trip: Xi'an and Yao Ware Town Sat./Sun, Nov.19-20

Weekend trip to northwest of China: Xi'an (Terrecotta Warriors); Shaanxi Museum (the best museum in China)(Saturday) and Chenlu (yaozhou ware town)(Sunday). >>> more