Art And Culture

The Booming of Asian Culture Reflecting from Chinese New Year Celebration in New York

February 25, 2016
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Art And Culture, Chinese for Children, Chinese Language, Mandarin for Children

This is a fun year to see so many Lunar/Chinese new year celebration events almost everywhere in New York city, from Chinatown, Lincoln Center, Time Square, Madison Avenue, Natural History Museum, Americans are more eager to know about Chinese culture and art! I volunteer for China Theatre works last weekend, made about 50 monkey King puppets (pi Ying), now it is in plastic! It was so much fun to see the monkey king performance,Chinese dance, kids running around and absorb at…

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Chinese New Year Celebration is about East meets West

February 5, 2016
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Art And Culture, China Business, Chinese Language

Chinese New Year – year of monkey is today!  New York city even reserve this day as a school holiday.  There are a lot of celebrations in New York City.  Calligraphy writing, Dragon dance, fireworks, what is Chinese near year about?  It is all about “Remove old and greet new”. Also when everyone is talking about Chinese are coming abroad to invest, it is all about “East meets West”. I am happy to see this is true in art and…

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Year Of Monkey – Chinese Zodiac & Feng Shui

January 6, 2016
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Art And Culture, China Business, Chinese Language

It is a Chinese habit to always check “luck” – Yun Qi in the new year to get prepared.  Year of Monkey is coming on February 8th, 2016, I just checked mine, not bad. Furthermore, Chinese always check luck for important decisions, such as married persons, marriage date, buying properties, giving baby names even time to be born etc? why? Does Chinese Zodiac and Feng Shui scientific and believable? The answer is “Yes”.  The reason is this is based on…

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Learn Eastern Cultual and Health Tips through Tai Chi, Meditation, Yoga, Calligraphy and Feng Shui

December 7, 2015
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Art And Culture, Chinese Language

We bet that earning Chinese culture and health is going to be next hot topic after Mandarin learning. Social media is making our life busier and busier and sometimes so just overwhelming! If learning is a pleasure in your life, why not try something like meditation, Yoga, calligraphy, Tai Chi, Feng Shui etc.  Those workshops will clam you down and also give you wisdom to make right decisions. Wall Street Chinese has been providing special cultural, art and health workshops to…

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Chinese Helping Jewish Refugees During World War II – Documentary Film “Survivals in Shanghai”

November 17, 2015
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Art And Culture, China Business, Chinese for Children, Mandarin for Children

I went to watch this documentary film “Survivals in Shahghai” with surprise to find such a large audience on 11/16/2015. This movie was called by Rabbi Arthur Schneiur  “A tribute to the Chinese people who provided refuge to over 25,000 European Jews who fled Nazi oppression and found heaven in Shanghai”. As Chinese myself, I am very surprised that such a small number of Jews that China saved out of the 6 million which was killed by Nazi in Europe…

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Jack Ma Speaking in English, Mark Zuckerburg in Mandarin, Being Billingual is Hot And Necessary!

October 26, 2015
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Art And Culture, Blog, China Business, Chinese for Children, Chinese Language, featured

Interesting enough, Mark Zuckerburg just talked with Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping in Chinese in Seattle; Mark even gave a business teaching to Tsinghua university in Mandarin recently; Chinese has been passion learning English since 80’s of last century, today almost all the young children speak some Chinese; Alibaba and TaoBao founder Jack Ma gave a interview in the US entirely in English? Language is disappearing too, please look at this TED talk. Learning second language can make one’s IQ 10…

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Traditional and Contemporary Chinese Acrobatics and Symphony

October 26, 2015
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Art And Culture, China Business, Chinese Language

For Chinese who were born at 60’s and 70’s of last century, we grew up watching Chinese style acrobatics, ballet, model opera, even Chinese composed symphony and certain carefully selected foreign movies, no much choice but people were entertained in this way  which is pretty “focused”, comparing with today’s social media which is just the opposite. However, I recently went to two shows which are pretty amazing. One is 10/9/2015, I watched a low advertised performance by Chinese national Acrobatics,…

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Beijing Opera – One Of The Best Reflection of Chinese Culture

October 19, 2015
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Art And Culture, Chinese Language, Uncategorized

A play based the most famous Chinese classic novel Hong Lou Meng – ???, English name is ” The dream of the Red Chamber  “, about You family’s 3rd sister’s love tragedy showed at Flushing cultural center, played by famous Beijing Opera artist Tong Zhi Ling’s daughter Tong Xiaoling on 10/4/2015 was just a typical example of the beautiful tradition of China. “Hong Lou Meng” was written by Chao Xueqing about a falling rich and powerful family in the Jiang…

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Tai Chi, Tao and Business, Helpful For Young Professionals?

September 23, 2015
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Art And Culture, China Business, Chinese Language, events

The answer is Yes.  Actually learning Chinese ancient philosophy Tao and Tai Chi exercise which emphasis at Tao,  are very popular in the business world now! Wall Street Chinese have such workshops at our regular curriculum now (see our website WallStreetChinese.net) Tai Chi Chuan, a martial arts form of ancient China, is practiced today primarily to promote health and wellness. The practice of Taichi Chuan increases and uplifts energy, relieves pain and fatigue, improves balance and coordination. It is an excellent form…

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Making China Beijing’s Tian An Men into a game and much more!

September 21, 2015
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Art And Culture, China Business, Chinese Language

With China Chairman Qi Jinping coming to visit the US for the 1st time, Chinese’s economy slowing down effecting the world economy, the love and hate about China is heating up around the world. Last week I went to MoMa for the Friday free night, by the end  saw this two giant face to face screen with Beijing Tian Men squares image, my blood got shot up immediately, I have to admit the power of digital media/video game, in terms of…

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