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Conferences Meetings In China
Game Time International Asia China Expo, Guangzhou
An export-oriented trade exhibition of entertainment and computer games targeting international buyers. Products such as whole machines and single parts; hardware and software; and novelties and classics are included.
Date: Sept 23-25
Venue: Poly World Trade Expo Center
Website: www.chinaexhibition.com
Interior Lifestyle China, Shanghai
An international trade fair for household products and accessories.
Date: Oct 10-13
Venue: Shanghai Exhibition Center
Website: www.messefrankfurt.com.hk
eCommerce Expo China, Shanghai
Showcases e-commerce industry products and services, and real life case studies.
Date: Oct 16-17
Venue: Shanghai Mart
Website: www.ece-china.com
Electronic Manufacturing Exposition China, Suzhou
In an area covering more than 40,000 square meters and coinciding with a number of forums and seminars, this event gives global industry experts and companies the opportunity to discuss and present the latest topics in the industry.
Date: Oct 18-21
Venue: Suzhou International Expo Center
Website: www.goemex.com
China Education Expo
An event for overseas schools to expand their presence in the world’s potentially largest recruitment market.
Date: Oct 20-Nov 3
Venue: Selected cities
Website: chinaeducationexpo.com
Conferences Meetings In the US
China Leaders Forum: Will the Chinese Tiger Come Roaring Back After the Crisis? New York
Topics include the internationalization of renminbi, post-crisis relationship between the US and China, the euro debt crisis and how it will affect the Chinese economy, and what steps China will need to take to maintain its growth and success.
Date: Oct 2
Venue: Schulte Roth Zabel LLP
Website: www.chinaleadersforum.com
China: Competitor, Customer and Conundrum, New York
Hosted by Fred P. Hochberg, chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank of the US. Focus on US-China trade tensions and opportunities.
Date: Oct 4
Venue: Covington and Burling
Website: www.ncuscr.org
Chinese Direct Investment in California, Los Angeles
Reports on the patterns and impact of Chinese direct investment in California and brings together experts in China policy and foreign direct investment.
Date: Oct 11
Venue: To be decided
Website: www.asiasociety.org
Culture In China
China Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao
Combines photography with Pingyao, an ancient city listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Shanxi province.
Date: Sept 19-25
Venue: To be decided
Website: pip.cuctv.com
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Show, Beijing
This all-male drag ballet corps will parody the conventions and cliches of romantic and classical ballets for Beijing audiences.
Date: Sept 28-30
Venue: Mei Lanfang Grand Theater
Website: www.theatrebeijing.com
Culture In the US
Chinese Gardens: Pavilions, Studios, Retreats, New York
This exhibition explores the rich interaction between pictorial and garden arts in China.
Date: Aug 18-Jan 6
Venue: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Website: www.metmuseum.org/events/find-events
Green Paradoxes: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Literature and Environmental Crises, Los Angeles
Discusses how East Asian creative texts grapple with environmental degradation and highlights the conflicting ways people interact with the natural environment.
Date: Oct 18
Venue: University of Southern California
Website: dornsife.usc.edu/eascenter/green-paradoxes
Bound Unbound: Lin Tianmiao, New York
Surveying Chinese artist Lin Tianmiao’s work since 1995, the exhibition highlights the remarkably consistent focus on the human form.
Date: Sept 7-Jan 27
Venue: Asia Society Museum
Website: asiasociety.org
Diplomatic pouch
The US-China Business Council and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace will host a discussion with US Ambassador to China Gary Locke on Sept 13 in Washington. Locke will share his views with members of both organizations on the state of the US-China relationship, developments in China in this year of leadership transition, and the prospects for China’s economy, drawing on his previous experience as US secretary of commerce.
Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong met Arnie Roblan, co-speaker in the US House of Representatives from the state of Oregon, in Beijing last week. Liu praised Oregon’s pioneering role in China-US cooperation at a local level. She also applauded the state’s efforts to develop all-around cooperation with China, especially the passage of a bill in 2010 to make the instruction of Mandarin Chinese available to all public schools.
China’s Consul General in New York, Sun Guoxiang, welcomed Henry Kissinger and other guests to a reception last week commemorating the 40th anniversary of the “ping-pong diplomacy” reciprocal visit to the US by the Chinese national table tennis team.
He also saluted Jan Berris, vice-president of the National Committee on US-China Relations, an organization dedicated to China-US relationship even before the forging of diplomatic ties, the US table tennis players who visited China in 1971, and “all the friends who have played an active part in promoting the China-US relationship over the past 40 years”.
The Seattle University men’s basketball team ended a two-week, seven-game tour of China on Sept 4, heading home after stops in Beijing, Fuxin, Qianjiang and Heze. The 12-player Redhawks squad and head coach Cameron Dollar also visited US Ambassador to China Gary Locke.
US Consul General in Shanghai Robert Griffiths spoke at the opening reception for JAM Session: America’s Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World, a photo exhibition at the Fairmont Peace Hotel that continues until Sept 24. Guests included museum and gallery directors, Shanghai Conservatory teachers, a jazz club owner and musicians active in the Shanghai jazz scene, including some traveling from Suzhou, Nanjing and Hangzhou.
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China Daily
(China Daily 09/07/2012 page23)