The White Stupa Temple, one stop of the "Back-Street-Beijing" Walking Tour

Highlight of this weekend:

Saturday: "Back-Street-Beijing" Walking Tour  morning will explore Fuchengmennei, where you will see huge dignified palaces like the Forbidden City, Yuan Dynasty Indian style Stupa and hutongs & a pet market!

Sunday:  Nov.12, 2-5pm
Learn "Wax-dye" techniques and make your own batik !

Travel info

Sign you up for Shaolin Temple & Luoyang Longmen Grottes November 25-26

And prepare for the Harbin Trip (snow sculptures and Ice lanterns) ! The weekend trip will be available throughout January and February

What's on

Beijing Tour

Saturday, Nov.11, 2-6pm
"Back-Street-Beijing" Walking Tour(3)-Fuchengmennei
CCC's serial "Back-Street-Beijing" Walking Tour will take you to Shrines of Emperors of all Dynasties; Yuan-Dynasty White Dagopa (Kublai Khan's period), Writer Lu Xun's Museum and ...

Saturday, Nov.11, 2-6pm "Back-Street-Beijing" Walking Tour(3)

Tuesday, Nov.14, 9:30am-4pm
Red Leaves of the Fragrant Hills & Azure Clouds Temple

Tuesday, Nov.14, 12:00-14:00
Dining out: Sichuan Cuizine
CCC will organize a series of dining-out parties to introduce you to real Chinese cuisine from various regions in good local restaurants. We'll start with Sichuan food in March, and move on to food from vegetarian, Hubei, to Shanghai, Beijing, etc. i

Thursday, Nov.16, 10am-12:30pm
Tour: Chinese Ethnic Costumes Museum
Visit the Beijing Ethnic Minority Costume Museum, a beautiful yet neglected modern museum and see the marvelous designs and embroideries of these gorgeous old costumes of the 56 Chinese ethnic groups. These costumes were collected from all across ...

Friday, Nov.17, 10am-12pm
Hutong (Alley) & Courtyard Houses 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, Nov. 18, 8:30am-6:30pm
Hike: Great Wall Simatai and Jinshanling
Simatai section of Great Wall in Miyun County, Beijing, remains one of the best options for those who want more of a challenge from the Great Wall, harrowing, steep and unrestored. It connects to another section of the Great Wall, Jin Shan Ling, in

Saturday, Nov.18, 12:30-14:00
Dining out: Sichuan Cuizine
CCC will organize a series of dining-out parties to introduce you to real Chinese cuisine from various regions in good local restaurants. We'll start with Sichuan food in March, and move on to food from vegetarian, Hubei, to Shanghai, Beijing, etc. i


Seminars / Classes

Sunday, Nov.12, 2-5pm Hands-on: Batik & Wax-dye

Sunday, Nov.12, 2-5pm
Hands-on: Batik & Wax-dye
The wax-dyeing technique is thought to be over a thousand years old. The batik has reached its highest artistic expression in southeast Asia and Southwest China, particularly among minority ethnic Chinese. Batik has become a very central means of art

Monday, Nov.13, 1-2:30pm
Talk: China's Four Most Famous Folklores


Wednesday, Nov.15, 10am-11:30am
Daytime Book Club: "Mr. China"
Join our monthly book chat on "Mr. China" You are also welcome even though you may not have read a single page of the book yet. Just join our discussion! The book is available at Beijing Foreign Language Book Store in Wangfujing St.

Wednesday, Nov.15, 7:30pm
Seminar: Demystify Wu Xia, Martial Literature
You may stun but also be puzzled by the concept and scene in the Martial Arts films such as the“Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon" Many Chinese martial arts movies and novels seem a mistery and elusive to western audience.

Sunday, Nov.19, 2-4 pm
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, Nov. 21, 10:30am-12:00
Seminar: Zen Buddhism & Tea Ritual
This is an in-depth talk by CCC experts on the relation between Zen sect Buddhism and tea, and the importance of the three key elements: tools, water and tea leaves. The tea artists will explain all different tea cups and other wares, types of tea le

Wednesday, Nov.22, 2-4pm
Peking Opera and face-painting
CCC will invite one veteran Peking Opera artist to teach how to do the spectacular while complicated opera makeup. For this workshop, the artist will particularly focus on how to do the make-up for jing role--enterprising warriors and wild men.

Sunday, Nov.26, 2:30-5pm
Making Lotus Lanterns
Hear interesting lantern stories from Mr. Zhang, 73, nicknamed Lantern Zhang, who acquired the craftsmanship from an eunuch master in the Forbidden City.

Wednesday, Nov.29, 7:30pm
Why Kuan Yin (a bodhisattva in buddhism) is a female?

Cave dwellings in Henan Shaolin Temple & Luoyang Longmen Grottes (November 25-26)

Explore China

November 25-26
Shaolin Temple & Luoyang Longmen 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

December 01-04
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

Fri.night-Sunday,December 02-03
Ancient City 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.

December 08-10
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 o

Fri.even-Sun. night,December 09 even.-10
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

December 25-28
4-day Lijiang Trip

December 29-30
2-day Trip to Shanghai

Dec.30-Jan.2
Yunnan trip: Xishuangbanna & Lijiang

Dec.30-Jan.2
Yunnan trip: Xishuangbanna

New Year Trip, Dec.30-8pm-Jan.1
Harbin--Snow World
Jan.13-14
Harbin--Snow World
Jan.27-28
Harbin--Snow World