Changxi Palace Lantern Day-trip to Baoding: Saturday, October 14

Highlight of this weekend

Be sure to make it to our Cricket Culture & Cricket fighting event this Sunday. Also don't miss the day trip this Saturday to explore Baoding City's Han Dynasty Tombs with important achealogical findings and the famous war tunnels...; or join our another Great Wall Hiking on Jiankou this Sunday

Upcoming Talks & Lectures

Today:  Thursday, October 12, 8pm
Talk: Modern Perspectives on Chinese Historiography
Dr. Thilo Diefenbach, researcher from China Academy of Social Science, will demonstrate a few general problems which everyone who is interested in Chinese history is confronted with. He will especially concentrate on the history of warfare,

Wednesday, Oct.18, 7:30pm
The Witchcrafts of Miao People

Wednesday, October 25, 8pm

The whole Jade Clothes sewn with gold thread Day-trip to Baoding: Saturday, October 14

Lecture: Chinese Population

Wednesday, October 18, 10am
Morning Book Club:"Wild Swans"

What's on in two weeks

Tours

Friday, Oct.13, 9:30am-12:30pm
Walk: Forbidden City & Tiananmen Square
 The 3-hour guided walk will provide informative and real explanation of the Forbidden City, not only covering the history, architecture, fengshui, and rituals and life in the Forbidden City, but also the imperial city planning of the whole walled cap

Tour: Hakka Earthen Round Buildings and Xiamen Island  October 26-29

Friday, Oct.13, 2:30-4:30pm
Hutong(alley) & Courtyard Pedicab Tour
CCC guides you to the hutongs and courtyards in Xuanwu District in the south of Beijing, where you will see the beautiful lakes and bridges, the real life of Beijingers, and visit their home for a chat

Saturday, Oct.14, 9am-7pm
Baoding's Prince Tomb and War Tunnels
Take a coach with CCC to explore Baoding City in Hebei, which used to be the capital of Hebei Province. Check out the ancient Governor’s Office compound, and famous Mencheng Han Dynasty Tombs with mummy of the emperor bound with complete jade cloth

Sat., October 14, 9am-1:30pm
Royal Canal Tour to the Summer Palace
Cruise along the imperial canal in a motorized canopy boat past the Beijing Zoo, the Beijing Aquarium and the Purple Bamboo Garden; appreciate the great views en route, and stroll in the garden to meet taichi practitioners beside lotus ponds...

Sunday, 8:30am - 6:30pm
Hiking: The Great Wall Jiankou


Beijing Events

The winning cricket chirps after fighting

Thursday, October 12, 8pm
Talk: Modern Perspectives on Chinese Historiography

Sunday, Oct.15, 2-4pm
Cricket(insect) culture & fighting
Go to a local pet market and take home a cricket songster to keep you company this fall! The Chinese love crickets! Come hear a talk all about crickets (qu qu & guo guo) and their extravagant containers – villas, and cricket apartments. ...

Monday, October 16, 2-4pm
Hands-on: 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

Wednesday, Oct.18, 7:30pm
The Witchcrafts of Miao People
Pang Jinquan, CCTV cinematographer will share with CCC participants on the Miao people’s witchcraft, a special religion and ritual in the village. Born and bred in such mysterious environment in Hunan, Pang filmed a documentary in 1980's. A few year


Explore China
Fri.even-Sun. night, October 13 even.-15
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

Oct. 21-24
Fairyland Jiuzhaigou & Huanglong's Picturesque Parklands
This trip will cover the famous World Natural Heritage listed by UNESCO Jiuzhaigou Scenic Zone and Huanglong Natural Reserve

Fri.-Sun., October 21-22
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

October 26-29
Hakka Earthen Round Buildings
Get to know Fujian province, the southeastern end of China's mainland facing Taiwan across the strait. Xiamen, beautiful seaport city with Gulangyu Island; then dirve into the villages in the mountains south and west of Fujian for the magical earthen

Minority ladies in Dehang, a town nearthe Phoenix Town in Hunan province

Fri.night-Sun.evening, October 28-29
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

November 02-05
Yangshuo & Longsheng Terraced Hills
The town of Yangshuo is a backpacker's paradise. Just over an hour south of Guilin, Yangshuo, with its natural scenery and laid back air, is a great escape from the gray and pollution of China's big cities...

November 03-08
Hunan Zhangjiajie & Phoenix Town
This trip offers two distinct sides of Hunan Province--the beautiful landscape in the nature reservation of Zhangjiajie, the clear waters of Mengdong River; and the traditional town of Fenghuang (Phoenix Town) with minorities and unique architecture

November 4-5 Jingdezhen ceramics & Wuyuan old town

November 4-5
Jingdezhen ceramics & Wuyuan old town
Wuyuan is a historical township surrounded by untouched ancient villages. We will visit Xiaoqi Village and Li Ken Village which boast breathtaking natural scenery, well-maintained ancient houses and special folk customs...

Nov.8 even.-12
Yangtze River Cruise
The Yangtze, China's longest river, originates on the Qinghai-Tibet-Plateau and flows eastwards. The rushing waters formed the dramatic scenery of the famous Three Gorges. Enjoy the spectacular mountainous landscape of the Yangtze River ...

November 14-19
6-day Guizhou Trip
Guizhou of Southwest China has long been remote, stagnant and ackward, however, unspoiled by tourism development as seen in surrounding provinces such as Guangxi, Yunnan and Sichuan. Its relative isolation has made the region one of the best kept...

Fri.night-Sunday, November 11-12
Ancient Xi An (Terracotta Warriors)
Take weekend trip to visit the famous Terracotta Warrior Site; walk on the ancient walled City, Shaanxi Museum; Great Mosque and Muslim Street; Wild Goose Pagoda, etc.

Fri.-Sun, November 17-19
Southern Water Towns: Suzhou, Wuzhen, Hangzhou
Chinese ancient Water Towns in South China are well known for their ancient houses, bridges and the rivers running through them. Explore with CCC Hangzhou and Suzhou, and one peaceful ancient town Wuzhen.

November 24 even.-26
Bucolic Township Kaiping Watchtowers(Portuguese Gothic)
Kaipíng, 136km southwest of Guangzhou, 164km from the Macau border, and also reachable by sea directly from Hong Kong, is China at its most bucolic.Peasants in conical straw hats bend over their plants, and position hand-powered threshing machines ...

November 25-26
Shaolin Temple & Luoyang Grottes
Take a weekend trip to Luoyang to visit the Longmen Grottoes, UNESCO-listed world heritage site in 2000. It is one of the 4 most famous Buddhist grottoes in China with over one hundred thousand Buddha figures in more than twenty three hundred niches...