Conferences & Meetings \>\> In China

Avionics Industry Chain Summit, Shanghai

More than 100 global advanced aerospace avionics industrial leaders will attend. It will present oppotunities for meeting the project leaders for C919, M700, AJ21, 30-Seat Turboprop business aircraft, 15-seat Turbofan business aircraft and AC313 Turboshaft helicopter.

Date: March 30-31

Venue: Novotel Shanghai Atlantis

Website: http://www.galleonevents.com/avionics2012

International Symposium on Education and Psychology, Hong Kong

The symposium will provide a platform for an international exchange of ideas, collaboration and cooperation among academics, educators and educational psychologists and other practitioners.

Date: March 30-April 1

Venue: Hong Kong SkyCity Marriott Hotel

Website: http://www.e-case.org/ISEP2012

International Symposium on Business and Management, Hong Kong

Topics such as economy, finance, human resources, marketing and consumer behavior, management and decision science, and services will be discussed.

Date: March 30-April 1

Venue: Hong Kong SkyCity Marriott Hotel

Website: http://www.e-case.org/ISBM2012

International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Administration, e-Society, e-Education, and e-Technology, Hong Kong

Researchers, engineers, academicians and industrial professionals present research results and talk about development activities in e-commerce, e-administration, e-society, e-education, and e-technology. Delegates will be able to exchange ideas and application experiences, establish business or research relations and find global partners for collaboration.

Date: March 30-April 1

Venue: Hong Kong SkyCity Marriott Hotel

Website: http://www.e-case.org/2012

Conferences & Meetings \>\> In the US

Assignment: China - The Week that Changed the World, New York

This documentary looks at one of the most important moments of the 20th century.

Date: March 8

Venue: NYIT Auditorium

Website: http://www.ncuscr.org

China's Grassroots NGOs: Comparing Beijing, Yunnan and Guangdong, New York

Anthony J. Spires, associate director of the Center for Civil Society Studies and assistant professor of sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, will compare civil society development in Beijing, Guangdong and Yunnan in a program at the Henry Luce Foundation. Spires has conducted extensive research on Chinese NGOs and will talk about his findings.

Date: March 13

Venue: National Committee on United States-China Relations

Website: http://www.ncuscr.org

Culture \>\> In China

American Country Music

Kevin Chase and Melanie Morgan will perform country music pieces such as My Girl, Lemon Tree, and California Dreaming.

Date: March 7-11

Venue: Selected cities

Website: http://www.damai.cn

Jack Greminger, Suzhou

American drummer Jack Greminger will perform with Rickard Malmsten, Marcia Seebaran and Wilson Lam.

Date: March 10

Venue: Suzhou Culture and Arts Center

Website: http://www.damai.cn

Culture \>\> In the US

Women, Texts, and the Late-Qing Feminist Imagination, Boston

Professor Amy Dooling examines the implications of a highly self-reflexive attention to modern print media in the early 1900s. The late Qing feminist imagination fore-grounded the power of written texts to galvanize women on questions of social transformation and revolution.

Date: March 2

Venue: CGIS South, Room S153, Harvard University

Website: http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu

A Masculine View of Late-Qing Women's Readings, Boston

Many late-Qing feminist writers were also men. Ellen Widmer explores two reformist novels in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and looks at both form and substance to ascertain whether a distinction between men's and women's writings can be drawn.

Date: March 2

Venue: CGIS South, Room S153, Harvard University

Website: http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu

Diplomatic pouch

After US Vice-President Joe Biden and Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping visited a 99-percent Hispanic public school in suburban Los Angeles last month, the US State Department announced new private-sector funding to boost the number and ethnic diversity of American students studying in China.

The pledges, in support of President Barack Obama's 100,000 Strong Initiative, include more than $500,000 in grants for Americans Promoting Study Abroad, a non-profit groups that sends US public high school students from underserved communities to study in China. Those grants came from Corning Incorporated, Motorola Mobility, the i.am.angel Foundation and the Roche Family Foundation. The Bank of China independently pledged $315,000 to send additional students to China with APSA. Together, these grants will help send more than 100 American public high school students to study in China, the State Department said.

A new pledge of $350,000 from automotive component maker Wanxiang Group will fund sending teachers from San Francisco and students from Los Angeles County to China on study tours. Since January 2011, Wanxiang has independently pledged $4.5 million to programs that support the initiative's goals, including for the Chicago Public School System, Northwestern University, and the University of Michigan.

US Consul General in Guangzhou Brian Goldbeck has saluted the American Chamber of Commerce in South China for sending a representative, Fred Hong, to the Global Business Conference in Washington. Speaking at the US event, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that as "partners on the ground with deep knowledge and extensive networks", US chambers of commerce were "at the heart of our effort" to better advance and support US jobs creation and economic recovery.

"The leaders of seven Chinese provinces, including the governor of Fujian, traveled to Los Angeles to meet with five US governors to discuss trade and investment ties," Goldbeck said. "In the coming months we expect a number of state and city delegations to visit South China."

Guizhou Governor Zhao Kezhi, who attended the US-China conference of governors, said he wanted his province to gain from the enhanced Sino-US relations.

China Daily

(China Daily 03/02/2012 page23)