Coming Events:

Chinese Culture Club-Kung Fu 101 Event

The Chinese culture Club would like to invite you to come to the Kung Fu 101 Event. This event will have both a brief lecture on the history of Chinese Martial Arts as well as some hands-on self defense practice.  Master Kevin Miller, a local practitioner and owner of Bei Shaolin Kung Fu Inst. Memphis will be instructing at the event.

Details:
Kung Fu 101
4:00 - 5:15 pm
Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009
U of M Field House Rm. 118

Please come and bring comfortable clothing. There will also be light refreshments.

Confucius Institute at the University of Memphis, October Celebration, Monday, October 5, 2009
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Lion Dance Performance Monday, October 5, 2009 , 7:30 pm
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Confucius Institute will sponsor high school students for Summer Camp to China

Please find details here

Past Events:

Learning with Fan, Open Mind
Chinese Summer Camp Looking Back

On June 29,2009 at Hutchison School, All Roads Lead to China Chinese Summer Camp started and was well done on July 3,2009. Within these five-day Summer Camp, Students had lots of fan through variety actions, classes, games and sports, also learned Chinese language and contacted to Chinese culture.

Please find photos here

June 29 � July 3, 2009, Chinese Summer Camp

Come join us this summer! We will spend an action packed week learning Tai Chi, Chinese dancing, Chinese martial arts, Mandarin Chinese, Chinese calligraphy, Chinese sculpting, Chinese paper cutting, Wushu, and so much more!

Please find details here

April 25, 2009, World T'ai Chi & Qigong Day

Time: 9:30am to 1pm

Location: U of M Campus,  McWherter Library Ellipse

CIUM will present World T'ai Chi & Qigong Day in collaboration with the Department of Health & Sport Sciences at UofU.

Please find details here

December 27, 2008, Study Abroad - Winter Break in China

Faculty Program Director: Dr. Hsiang Te Kung, Professor of Geography at the University of Memphis will lead the China Study Tour during the winter break.

Eligibility and Space Available: Students in good standing at the University of Memphis and non-UM students. tHE

Please find details here

December 3, 2008, A panel discussion on Chinese culture

The Confucius Institute at the University of Memphis invites you to attend a panel discussion on Chinese culture with special guests from Hubei University in Wuhan, China, followed by a musical performance from Ms. Li-ling Zhou playing the guzheng, a traditional Chinese instrument. The panel discussion and performance will be held in the Ned R. McWherter Library, Room 225 Wednesday, December 3, 2008 ?C Noon to 1:00 p.m. Admission is free.? Parking will be available in the Innovation Drive Parking Garage, west of the McWherter Library. For more information, please contact Mr. Tom Mendina at 901.678.4310 or Dr. Hsiang-te Kung at 901.678.4467. This program is sponsored by Confucius Institute and the University Libraries with the support of the Friends of the University Libraries.

November 15, 2008, First Chinese Bridge - Chinese Proficiency Competition by CIUM

Date: Saturday, November 15th

Location: University of Memphis main campus

Eligibility: Non-native speakers of Chinese

Registration deadline: Friday, November 7th

The competition will be held separately for adults and college students, and K-12 students. To register, please download the application forms from http://cas.memphis.edu/cium/ and submit it via email to:

Dr. Lan Zhang at: lzhang3@memphis.edu, or

Ms. Ying Xiong at: yxiong@memphis.edu

No registration fee is required.

Note: All the participants will be awarded a small souvenir from China.

Please find the registration forms here.

October 15, 2008, Movie: The King of Masks

Time: Wednesday, October 15th, 6:00 p.m.

The Student Consortium for Chinese Awareness stikes again! King of Masks is about gender discrimination and traditional entertainment in China. Please enjoy pizza and movie!

October 20, 2008, Lecture: A Comparison of Chinese and American War Movies

Time: Monday, Oct. 20,2008  3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Place:  MITCHELL AUDITORIUM, Room: MI200

Jiangang XU, a Visiting Professor from China Three Gorges University, will give a brief presentation on the comparison of  the similarities and differences between the Chinese and American War Movies from the aspects of  the difference in ideology and the distinctions in story-tellings and figure-shaping.

It is sponsored by the CIUM and Asian Studies and International Trade Program (ASIT).

Confucius Institute will celebrate its anniversary on September 14, 2008.

Spring Semester 2008 in the SCCA

~submitted by Mark Wlodawski, President

In January of this year a few friends and I founded the Student Consortium for Chinese Awareness. It�s been a fun semester full of developments and growth as a club. We coordinated 3 successful events: Lantern Fest and two nights during which we showed Chinese movies: �Warlords� and �Biozombie.� They were all located at the Wesley Center, the Methodist student organization. This is because they allow presentation of copyrighted material and serving food not bought through Aramark, which is a requirement of events held on the University campus. Lantern Fest and our showing of Biozombie were both posted in the calendar of events in the Memphis Flyer newspaper.

Our first event, Lantern Fest, was a celebration of the Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival. We acquired the sponsorship of two Asian restaurants: Mosa Asian Bistro and PF Changs, both of which donated hundreds of dollars worth of food, and they are both willing to donate again. In return we pasted their logos onto the posters we designed for the event.

Our second event was presentation of a Chinese action movie called Warlords. We supplied the food for that movie and designed another poster for it. We attracted 30 guests to that.

Before our third event we received a request for an interview that was to be played over the school radio station, WUMR �The Jazz Lover.� During the interview we mentioned our sponsors, goals as a club, history, members, advisers, and discussed current issues in China such as the Olympics, Tibetan rebellions, and concerns over safety.

Third and final event for the semester was another movie night for a Hong Kong movie named Biozombie. We again received sponsorship from local restaurants: Papa John�s donated 10 pizzas and we provided additional food. Approximately 30 people came and we considered it a success. To promote the event we designed and distributed copies of another poster, paid for two advertisements to appear in the school newspaper, arranged to have a prize for a zombie costume contest, and invited many people on the web sites Myspace.com and Facebook.com.

We are now planning our fall events, which include exploration of Confucius and other Chinese literature, coordinated events with other clubs on campus as well as Rhodes college�s ASIA club (All Students Interested in Asia), acquiring more members, designing t shirts, and showing more Chinese movies. We have high hopes for the future and look forward to further development.