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…
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…
Wall Street Chinese is going to pre-launch a unique organization – Business Chinese professional club (BCPC). After training business professionals for over 6 years in New York, Wall Street Chinese is planning to launch a professional organization for professionals who are bilingual in Chinese and English, appreciating multi culture with a dream career, balanced life, a healthy social life with motivation and spirit. Here is our mission statement for BCPC: Business Chinese communication skill is becoming more and more important…
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…
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…
On Nov 3rd, 2015, seven business students of Wall Street Chinese were selected to be included in a real time business Chinese class taught by WSC’s senior trainer and founder Hanying (Helen) Liu. This class will be included in the documentary TV about East Silk Road series by CCTV – the No.1 TV station in China soon! With China’s booming economy, Business Chinese becomes Wall Street Chinese’s signature class. We have been training professionals for over 6 years in the Great…
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…
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,…
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…
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…