When: September 5, 2008 (Friday, 6:00 pm)
Where: Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny St, 3rd Floor, San Francisco
Admission: $5 public, $3 member
The Chinese Culture Center is pleased to present “Colonel Jin Xing: A Unique Destiny” 上尉金星 (2001). The film will be played in English.

Shanghai’s principal dancer, 33-year-old Jin Xing, is a big star. She is the first choreographer to have received recognition in over half a century of national communism. But the most amazing thing about Jin Xing is that, up until 1995, this beautiful young woman was a man, a colonel in the People’s Liberation Army. Despite Jin Xing’s transcendence in the dance world, however, she is still up against the Chinese bureaucracy which refuses to give her permission to perform on the stages of the Western world. Read More »

The Fall 2008 Classes will be held for 10 weeks, beginning on September 27, and ending on December 13 (break on the week of Columbus Day and Thanksgiving). For this upcoming session, we will have both weekend and weekday adult mandarin classes, including Beginner, Advanced Beginner and Intermediate. Read More »

Test your puzzle-solving skills on challenging new puzzles and old classics. Bring your favorite puzzles to share with others. Make puzzles out of common household items for your family and friends. All ages and skill levels welcome! Led by puzzle collector Stan Isaacs and science teacher Curt Gabrielson, with special presentation by Wei Zhang at 2 pm.

At the Chinese Culture Center on August 30th 2008, from 12 to 4 pm.
Admission is free and open to everyone.

Poster by Niana Liu

When: August 29, 2008 (Friday, 6:00 pm)
Where: Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny St, 3rd Floor, San Francisco
Admission Fee: $5 public, $3 member
C4 is proud to present the US Premier “Searching for Lin Zhao’s Soul”, AKA In Search of Lin Zhao’s Soul 寻找林昭的灵魂 (2004) in Mandarin with English subtitles. Read More »

Date: July 22 - Oct 11
Location: Chinese Culture Center Gallery
750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat, 10-4
Admission: Free

“This unique and exciting exhibition will bring much enjoyment to viewers of all ages!”
- Terese Tse Bartholomew, Curator Emeritus, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

While the entire world is celebrating the spirit of sports at the Beijing Olympic Games, the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco would like to introduce the “Games of the Hands and Mind”. Read More »

In response to the 8.0 earthquake in China’s Sichuan’s province, the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco strongly extends its support to the families and everyone affected by this devastating disaster.

We ask supporters of the Chinese Culture Center and all the people in the Bay Area to help with our efforts to bring awareness and resources to earthquake relief efforts. Please go to our direct website dedicated to these efforts.

CCC is partnering with our peer organizations to assist in fundraising efforts with relief agencies to support these families and victims of the China earthquake. We will make these resources available on our website for those wishing to donate to this cause. Read More »

Lure/惑 by Beili Liu
劉北立大型裝置藝術展: 惑
Official Selection of the San Francisco International Arts Festival
舊金山國際藝術節指定展覽
11th Annual United States of Asian America Festival
11屆亞美藝術節指定展覽

Runs May 9 – July 5th, 2008
Chinese Culture Center Gallery
750 Kearny Street, Third Floor (inside the Hilton Hotel).
Gallery Hours Tue.-Sat, 10-4
Admission: Free

“Absolutely stunning…A must see!” - Flo Oy Wong
“Poetic…” - Jay Xu, Director of Asian Art Museum
“Don’t Miss!” - SF Chronicle/96 Hours
“Lure” is emotional, meticulous, and, yes, beautiful.” - SF Weekly
“Legend Made Visible” - SF Examiner

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Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco & Pacific Environment jointly present:
On the Cutting Edge: Social and Environmental Change in China
在最前沿：中國的社會和環保的變革
A Reception and Presentation Honoring Changemakers in China

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Chinese Culture Center
750 Kearny Street, 3rd floor mezzanine (inside the Hilton Hotel)
Admission: $15 suggested donation

China’s growth over the past several decades not only brings enormous economic opportunities for China’s youth, but also the chance to shift social norms. Join us to meet the emerging social leaders from four different regions in China, and explore how China’s rapid rise is influencing the development of social movements.
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For an intimate look at the Chinese community, the Chinese Culture Center offers docent conducted walks. The tours emphasize its cultural achievements, social progress and history. The walk begins with a brief introduction at the Center and may include places of interest such as the Chinese Historical Society of America, a Chinese temple, herb store, churches, schools, community organizations, and many architectural and historical points of interest.

More information about the Chinese Heritage Walk.

April 11 - June 7, 1998
In an exhibition of forty color photographs of San Francisco’s Chinatown taken over the last quarter of a century, Maurice H. Edelstein offers candid glimpses of a colorful, multigenerational, and symbiotic community.
Mr. Edelstein has found the similarities mirrored between Chinese immigrants and Jewish settlers, in their day-to-day struggle to maintain tradition and family through education, work, and humor, to be remarkably identical. The R. print photographs in this exhibition reflect the bonds of affection he feels existing between Chinatown residents and their children. His photographs capture intimate moments in the daily-life activities of a multigenerational community:
According to Mr. Edelstein, “It’s impossible for me to walk through Chinatown without at least one camera. To do so would be like eating chow fun without soy sauce. (Gefilta fish without horseradish?) Where in San Francisco can one get this much color, this much activity? Where in America in such a small area is there such action going on which screams out for picture taking?”

He is drawn to Chinatown for some other reasons: “My grandparents on both sides came from Europe around the turn of the century. In fact, my mother and her siblings were all born in Poland. Both families arrived in New York City without any money and without any knowledge of English. They spoke only Yiddish. (A few spoke Polish.) They dressed funny. They had a strict diet, so they could only eat certain foods which had to be ritualistically approved by rabbinic authorities. They lived in tenements, crowded into small rooms with big families. My mom slept in a bed with three of her sisters. The older sister had a job in a sweat shop. So she slept in the position closest to the door, so as not to wake the others, as she had to be out before dawn. Sound familiar? What the first wave of Chinese encountered in California is not dissimilar to the discrimination faced by other ethnic groups entering a new land. But the similarities mirrored between the Chinese-Jewish settlers in their day-to-day struggle to maintain tradition and family through education, work, and humor are remarkably identical.”

He is drawn to the teeming crowds on Stockton Street on Saturday because “in my mind this is how the streets of the Lower East Side of New York must have looked almost one-hundred years ago. A walk on Stockton Street on a weekend may be the closest replica of a walk on Delancey Street at the turn of the century.”

Because of his own heritage, Edelstein feels “a strong kind of fascination in the exchanges I have observed on the streets in Chinatown, particularly between the very young and the very old, who have learned to sustain each other. The pictures in this exhibit reflect those bonds of affection I feel existent between these people and their children. Each picture has been taken candidly without the subjects being aware of being photographed. The camera is pointed at the subject but my body language is intent on appearing to look in another direction. This method insures the integrity of the moment and protects the privacy of the individual.”