Beijing Temple Fair Tour
Monday, Jan.23, 09:30-16:00

If you've never visited temple fairs of Beijing, then you must experience this style carnival with the locals and feel the bustle and lively New Year atmosphere of Beijing >>> more

Celebrate Chinese New Year in a Village
Wednesday, Jan.25, 09:00-16:00

CCC will organized an exclusive event to celebrate the Spring Festival in a village of the suburb Beijing. You will see happy revelers giving painted-face performances and walking on stilts, gay clowns, even paper donkeys, funny-looking ladies smoking tobacco pipes, and puppet shows. Then you will have lunch in local villagers' home. In the afternoon you will be rewarded by a performance of a troupe of old Beijing street entertainers, which can rarely be seen elsewhere. >>> more

Joining Yu County's Lantern Festival - Molten Iron Fireworks
Feb.04-05

The hundred-year old Yu County is a fortress-like township, famous for its paper-cutting, and throwing Molten Metals as fireworks during the Lantern Festival. The molten metals are thrown up in the air and onto the wall, creating magic firework effec >>> more

Talk/Hands-on: Spring Festival & Spring Couplets
Saturday, Jan.14, 14:00-16:00

Learn all about Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) - meanings, customs and traditional activities. And hear the meaning of chun lian (spring couplets)-- a must for every Chinese family during the Spring Festival! Then try your hand writing them. >>> more

Light Hiking Tanzhe Monastery & Yangpoyuan Village
Sunday, Jan.15, 08:30-17:00

Tucked away in the mountains in the west suburb, Tenzhe Monasteries and Pagoda Forest remain authentic and peaceful. They are one of the oldest temples in Beijing with lots of old pines and stone scarvings. The village nearby is old & nice. >>> more

Beijing Longqing Gorge Ice Sculpture & Lantern Tour
Sunday,Jan.15,16:00-22:00

Beijing Longqing Gorge is best known for its outdoor gallery of ice sculptures carved into animals and figures of all shapes and sizes, When illuminated at night they create wonderful visuals. Performances and toboggan add to its fun. >>> more

Book Club "Nixon and Mao"
Tuesday,Jan.17, 10:30-12:00

Join us for our monthly book chat at CCC! We are going to talk on the book "Midnight in Peking" by Paul French (Please note that the author will not be on hand at CCC for this book chat). >>> more

Morning Zen Practice & Meditation Workshop
Saturday, Jan.14, 10:30-12:00

Join us each week for an insight into the teachings and practices of Zen Buddhism. We'll be guided on our journey of self-discovery by a Buddhist layman and learn about Zen through its music, its stories, its art, its rituals & martial arts. >>> more

Harbin - Ice Lantern Festival & Snow Sculpture Expo
Jan 23 eve.-25

Go by air or overnight train to Harbin to catch the famous Snow Sculpture Exhibition and Ice Lantern Festival; appreciate the old Russian style architecture; drive into the Siberian Tiger Park; and dine in the Ice Bar. >>> more

Yunnan's Yuanyang (Hani Rice Terrace) & Tropical Xishuangbanna
Jan 23-29

Yuanyang, southeast of Yunnan, is renowned for its rice terraces crafted out by bare hands by the Hani people since one thousand years ago and even today, the world largest nature wonder. Luoping is famous for its blossoming of rapeseed flowers. >>> more

Explore Guangzhou, Foshan and Pastoral Kaiping
Jan 24-26

Kaiping, 164km from the Macau border, is China at its most bucolic. Its old European style watchtowers are very unique residences. While Guangzhou and Foshan in the Pearl River Delta Region feature Cantonese culture, custom and cuisine. >>> more

Sichuan Panda Natural Reserve, Leshan Buddha & Sanxingdui Museum
Jan.24-26

Visit the Panda center at Ya'an Natural Reserve, taking photos with the giant Pandas or even holding a panda; visit the famous Le Shan Giant Buddha, world's largest Buddha statue in the World >>> more

Subtropical Hakka Round Buildings & City Xiamen
Jan 24-26

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 >>> more

Harbin - Ice Lantern Festival & Snow Sculpture Expo
Feb 3 eve.-5

Go by air or overnight train to Harbin to catch the famous Snow Sculpture Exhibition and Ice Lantern Festival; appreciate the old Russian style architecture; drive into the Siberian Tiger Park; and dine in the Ice Bar. >>> more

Joining Yu County's Lantern Festival - Molten Iron Fireworks
Feb.04-05

The hundred-year old Yu County is a fortress-like township, famous for its paper-cutting, and throwing Molten Metals as fireworks during the Lantern Festival. The molten metals are thrown up in the air and onto the wall, creating magic firework effec >>> more

The Silk Road Tour (Xinjiang's Urumqi,Turpan and Kashgar)
Feb.10-14

The Silk Road Route starts from Dunhuang's Mogao Grottos in Gansu, fly to Xinjiang to explore Turpan Basin for its grape and melon harvest; then fly to Kashgar, the heart of Chinese Islam and drive to Karakuri Lake and Snow Mountains. >>> more