Check out this very old village of Beijing this Wednesday (April 12) with CCC. View more photos

Announcement 

1. New courses:
-- Another round of calligraphy class will begin on Monday 10am (April 17);
-- New traditional body massage course will start on the same date as the calligraphy.

2. Highlights of the week: Check tomorrow (wednesday) evening's Chinese history documentary (1953-1962) or various walks & tours of the week below:

Around Town

Wed., April 12, 9am-6pm
Beijing Amblers: Wise Water Village
This is a very old village south of Beijing. Wise Water Village has longer history than Ming Village (Chuan Di Xia) and never been open as a tourist spot. Go with CCC to amble around the village to see old wretched temples, houses, trees, and visi...

Thurs, April 13, 9am-12pm
Walk: Mosque and Muslim Quarters
Mr. Wei, director of the Mosque will guide you to the largest mosque in Beijing and the surrounding Niujie (Ox Street), a largely Muslim community in Beijing's Xuanwu District. This walk will give you a feel for the unique Muslim quarter with old Beijing hutong atmosphere.

Saturday hike to the Waterfall and blossom at Qing Liang Gu, Miyun.

Sat., April 15, 2:30-5:30pm 
Back-Street-Beijing Walking Tour (2)
This area is known for Huguosi restaurant, most famous traditional Beijing snack shop and restaurant; two famous 20th century artists' memorials, a coal-manufacturing factory, a shrine on the top of the hill with west lakes...

Sat., April 15, 9am-5:30pm
Hiking: Waterfall and Blossom
Drive to Miyun County, Beijing to see Qing Liang Gu Resort with peach and apricot blossom, red leaves, waterfall, valley and part of Miyun Reservoir....

Sunday, April 16, 9am-6pm
Tour: East Qing Tombs in Hebei
Visit the largest tomb complex in the world guided by professor Zhao Tiesheng. The Qing Tombs, listed by the UNESCO as World Heritage Site much earlier than Ming Tombs, is the imperial grave complex which houses most of Ming and Qing emperors, empres


Cultural events

The Great Leap Forward Movement before the Cultural Revolution. (Wednesday's screening of the Chinese history)

Wed., April 12, 8 pm
Screening: Chinese History (1953-1962)
This is the most important documentary series recording China's last century. It was made by China Central Television. You will see most comprehensive historical sources, including many rare footages. English subtitles.

Thursday, April 13, 2-4pm
Tying Chinese Knot( macramé)
Learn to make the auspicious knots (Chinese style macramé) from a CCC folk artists, and work out your own knots (knots, butterfly or lily shoes, and other patterns of crafts), and hang them up on your neck or your handbag

Sunday, April 16, 2:30-4:30pm
Mahjong Workshop
Come learn or practise this most popular games in China and rest of Asia. CCC boasts to let you grasp this game skills and immediately begin to play independently within one hour. If you are not a beginner...

Tuesday, April 18, 1-3pm
Sing Chinese folk songs

Wed., April 19, 8pm
Talk/Screening: Documentary of Eunuch Zhengh
CCTV producer will give CCC friends a talk (in English) on how he and his photographers traced the route of Zhenghe to shoot the long documentary of this Ming Dynasty Eunuch admiral who discovered America in 1421...

CCC Silk Road trip (June 1-6) Dunhuang Grotto, Turpan, Urumqi, Kashgar and Karakuri Lake (more photos)

Explore China

April 14-17
Easter Trip: Hakka Earthen Buildings
This is Easter Holiday Trip to get to know Fujian province, the southeastern end of China's mainland facing Taiwan across the strait. The journey starts from Xiamen, beautiful beach city with Gulangyu Island, to Zhangzhou, southern end of the provin...

Fri.night-Sunday, April 15-16
Ancient Xi An (Terracotta Warriors)
Take weekend trip to visit the famous Terracotta Warrior Site; Ancient City Wall, Shaanxi Museum; Great Mosque and Muslim Street; Wild Goose Pagoda, etc....

Fri.even-Sun. night, April 21 even.-23
Yellow Mountain & Ancient Anhui Villages
You will visit the following three places, the first two are UNESCO-listed sites: 1. Yellow Mountains, 2. Ancient Anhui Village Hongcun (fengshui village & shooting site for the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidd...

April 29-May 4 or 5   6 or 7-day trip to Tibet

May 1-7  May Holiday Tibet Trip

Another weekend trip to Pingyao May 6-7 (Sat.-Sun.)

April 29-May 5
7-day Yunnan Trip (Lijiang, Dali, Shangrila, Kunming)
Join CCC's trip to Yunnan (Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Shangrila, etc) to experience the dreamland and its diverse minority ethnic groups...

Fri.night-Sun.evening, May 6-7
Pingyao--Raise the red lantern
Listed as UNESCO Heritage Site, this exotic ancient city and city walls bring you back to the history and the atmosphere and environment like the Europeans back to the Middle Age Europe, and the awesome walls and carvings of the Wang Family Residence...

May 13-14
Datong Trip (Grottoes & Hanging Monastery)
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...

Guilin and Yangshuo

 
May 19-21 
3-day Trip to Guilin and Yangshuo

May 25/27-28  
Sichuan Panda Reserve and Leshan Giant Buddha

May 27-28
Shaolin Temple & Luoyang Grottes 

June 1-6
6-day Silk Road Trip: Dunhuang, Turpan, Kashgar