Book Club meeting: The True Story of Ah Q by Lu Xun
Wednesday, January 13, 10:30am

Sharing a drink onboard the train to harbin as the clock struck 12 on new year's eve (2006)

Upcoming book chats:
January 17, "Moment in Peking" by Lin Yutang
February 28,  "Red Dust" by Ha Jin
March 21, Book Reports
April 18, "Oracle Bones" by Peter Hessler
May 16, "Mao's Last Dancer" by Li Cunxin 

Tonight: Wednesday, December 13, 7:30-9pm
"The Promises and Perils of Cross-Cultural Comparison"
David Porter, visiting professor from the University of Michigan, is going to give this lecture ...

Courses and workshops in January
Cookery classes: Pancakes; Chinese (herbal) soups; and noodles
Foot massage Courses (daytime classes, four sessions)
Hands-on: Making Tiger Shoes
Mahjong Workshop
check our January calendar for details

 
Over the following two weeks

Drink in an Ice Bar at Harbin Harbin is CCC's most popular destination in winter !

Beijing Tour
Saturday, Dec.16, 8:30am-7pm
Great Wall Mutianyu & Ming Tombs

Sunday, December 17, 2-4:30pm
Traditional Art Tour
This is an expert guided tour to Beijing Art Academy to appreciate original scroll painting masterpieces of Qi Baishi, one of the most famous artists in 20th Century, and a few other artists' works.

Wednesday, Dec.20, 2:30-4:30pm
Hutong (Alley) & Courtyard Houses Pedicab Tour

Wednesday, Dec.27, 9:30-12pm
Temple of Heaven and Taichi class

Wednesday, Dec.27, 2-4pm
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

Thursday, Dec.28, 9:30am-7pm
Great Wall Mutianyu & Ming Tombs
Take coach to Mutianyu, a famous and physically moderate section of the Great Wall for hikers. Then drive to the Ming Tombs, well preserved imperial tomb complex with over 500 years of history...

Friday, Dec.29, 9:30am-1pm
Walk: Forbidden City & Tiananmen Square
The 3.5-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 c

Wednesday, January 3, 9:30am-12pm
Temple of Heaven and Taichi class
Tour the Temple of Heaven CCC guide and learn the significance of workshiping and offering sacrifaces to the God of Heaven, and the architectual symbols in this dignified imperial building.

Wednesday, January 3, 2-4pm
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

Wednesday, January 4, 9am-6:30pm
Great Wall Mutianyu & Ming Tombs
Take coach to Mutianyu, a famous and physically moderate section of the Great Wall for hikers. Then drive to the Ming Tombs, well preserved imperial tomb complex with over 500 years of history...


Seminars / Classes
Wednesday, Dec.13, 10:30am-12pm
Daytime Book Club:"The True Story of Ah Q"

Wednesday, December 13, 7:30-9pm
Lecture: The Promises and Perils of Cross-Cultural Comparison
David Porter argues that history of Westerners' attempts to understand China offers many examples of the distortions that can be introduced through the very process of comparison. So he will explore how these distortions come about...

Thursday, Dec.14, 10am-1pm
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.

Wednesday, January 10, 10am-12pm
Tying Chinese Knots
Learn to make the auspicious knots 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

Saturday, January 13, 12-2pm/ Tuesday, January 16, 12-2pm
Cookery Class: Chinese pancakes

Wednesday, Jan.17, 10:30am-12pm
Daytime Book Club:"Moment in Peking"

Saturday, January 20, 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

Sunday, January 21, 2:30pm
Cookery Class: Chinese Soups

Tuesday, January, 23, 1-4pm
Hands-on: Making Tiger Shoes
Tiger shoes are commonly found on babies' feet in the countryside of China even today. The shoes are entirely made of cloth and their toe-caps are made into tiger's head. Learn how to make the traditional tiger shoes...


Explore China
December 25-28
4-day Lijiang Trip
Join CCC's trip to Lijiang to experience the dreamland and its diverse minority ethnic groups.

Dec.30-Jan.2
Yunnan trip: Xishuangbanna
This will be 4-day trip to check out the tropical Xishuangbanna (known for various minority villages) at the south end of Yunnan.Of course, Kunming will be...

The Snow Lantern Festival in Harbin

New Year Trip, Dec.30 evening -Jan.1
Harbin--Snow World
Take plane or an overnight train to Harbin (nicknamed Little Moscow) to join the Snow Sculpture Exhibition and Ice Lantern Festival...

Jan.12 evening -14
Harbin--Snow World
Take plane or an overnight train to Harbin (nicknamed Little Moscow) to join the Snow Sculpture Exhibition and Ice Lantern Festival...

Jan.26 evening -28
Harbin--Snow World
Take plane or an overnight train to Harbin (nicknamed Little Moscow) to join the Snow Sculpture Exhibition and Ice Lantern Festival...

Jan.19-6:30pm-21
Sanya--China's Tropical Playground
Pearl-white beaches and swaying palms greet visitors to China's tropical paradise. Whether sipping coconut milk as the clean ocean water laps at your feet or floating through a coral jungle, Sanya is the place to go if the words” beach, sun and fun"

Feb.9 evening -11
Harbin--Snow World
Take plane or an overnight train to Harbin (nicknamed Little Moscow) to join the Snow Sculpture Exhibition and Ice Lantern Festival...

Feb.18 evening -20
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.

Feb.19 evening -21
Harbin--Snow World
Take plane or an overnight train to Harbin (nicknamed Little Moscow) to join the Snow Sculpture Exhibition and Ice Lantern Festival...

March 02-9pm-04
Shaolin Temple & Luoyang Longmen Grottes
Take a weekend trip to Luoyang to visit the Longmen Grottoes, one of 3 most famous Buddhist grottoes in China and Shaolin Monastery, the birthplace of both kung fu and Zen Buddhism.

March 08-11
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...