Conferences & Meetings \>\> In China

China International Battery Industry Exhibition, Shenzhen

An exhibition of technology used in the global battery industry. It includes the latest products and technologies related to battery material and equipment, finished batteries and many other fields.

Date: Nov 25-27

Venue: Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center

Website: www.chinaexhibition.com

Asia Golf Show, Shenzhen

An international learning, networking and trading platform held annually in South China where global suppliers can network with general managers, superintendents and industry buyers from Asia.

Date: Nov 30-Dec 2

Venue: Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center

Website: www.chinaexhibition.com

Global Sourcing Fair: Gifts & Home Products, Shanghai

Serves as a cost-effective platform for importers, volume buyers, purchasing managers and other sourcing professionals.

Date: Dec 5-7

Venue: Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center

Website: www.chinaexhibition.com

Conferences & Meetings \>\> In the US

Leaders on Leadership: A Series for Young Professionals, Houston

Connects professionals aged 40 and under with dynamic leaders from the greater Houston area for the purposes of networking and engaging in dialogue on key issues that reflect Asia Society Texas Center's mission.

Date: Dec 6

Venue: Asia Society Texas Center

Website: asiasociety.org/texas/events/

US-China Business Council Gala, Washington

A fundraising effort that strengthens USCBC's ability to serve its member companies.

Date: Dec 6

Venue: The Ritz-Carlton, 1150 22nd Street

Website: www.uschina.org/info/programs

China in 2013: Domestic Developments and Global Implications, Los Angeles

David P. Loevinger, managing director of the emerging markets group at TCW, will be the main speaker. Loevinger is a sovereign analyst in the group, covering the Asia region.

Date: Dec 6

Venue: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Los Angeles Branch

Website: asiasociety.org/southern-california/events

The Triangle of Sino-American Energy Diplomacy: A Symposium, Houston

This Asia Society symposium on resource diplomacy features policy experts from both Asia and the United States.

Date: Jan 17

Venue: Asia Society Texas Center

Website: asiasociety.org/texas/events

Culture \>\> In China

Blue is back

British R&B boyband Blue comes back to China to perform their greatest hits in Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing.

Date: Nov 23-27

Venue: Selected cities

Website: www.damai.cn

Cui Jian China Tour Concert, Beijing

Cui Jian is a pioneer in Chinese rock music and known as the father of Chinese rock.

Dates: Dec 15

Venue: Wukesong Arena

Website: www.theatrebeijing.com

Kaleidoscope Quilt Show

A fabric collection with a place in the modern world. While country folk from the US have kept the art alive for centuries, the show also includes quilters from urban professional backgrounds.

Date: On display

Venue: Selected cities

Website: www.ynnmuseum.com

New York Harlem Singers Christmas Concert, Beijing

Comprised of New York based singers, the ensemble is devoted to presenting African American music to audiences in the United States and abroad.

Date: Dec 24

Venue: Multi-functional Theatre of NCPA

Website: www.theatrebeijing.com/whats_on/NCPA/2012/new_york_harlem_singers_christmas_concert.html

Culture \>\> In the US

Belief in Song Religion: Writings from Longshu on the Pure Land, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Robert Hymes, H. Walpole Carpentier is a professor of Chinese history at Columbia University. The lecture focuses on the social and cultural history of middle-period and early-modern China.

Date: Nov 26

Venue: CGIS South, Room S030, 1730 Cambridge Street, Harvard University

Website: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/robert-hymes

Stories in the Making of America, New York

Presents the diverse layers of the Chinese-American experience, while examining America's journey as a nation of immigrants.

Date: On display

Venue: The Museum of Chinese in America

Website: www.mocanyc.org/exhibitions/current/the_chinese_american_experience

Ashes of Time Redux, New York

This 2008 version, by director Wong Kar Wai, who is known for films such as In the Mood for Love and 2046, is a revision of the 1994 original. The show is part of the series Goddess: Chinese Women on Screen, from Nov 9 to Dec 8 at the Asia Society.

Date: Dec 7

Venue: Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue (at East 70 Street)

Website: asiasociety.org/new-york/events/ashes-time-redux-film-screening

Diplomatic pouch

The Chinese consulate in San Francisco launched two consular- services education programs in its jurisdiction last week, with lectures at the University of Washington in Seattle and Portland State University.

Consul General Gao Zhansheng attended the Seattle event, where more than 200 overseas Chinese students also heard from speakers from the university, local police department officials and legal representatives.

Gao introduced the consular protective services offered by the Chinese government recently for overseas students, and explained the importance of preventive consular protection to ensure the safety of Chinese citizens and organizations abroad. Almost one year ago, China's consular service website (http://cs.mfa.gov.cn) was launched by Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Song Tao in Beijing.

In Seattle, the speakers discussed the concept of consular protection, as well as the most frequent crimes against students, police safety reminders, rules about student visas, and how to get help from a Chinese-speaking attorney. Gao also commended the remarkable success of Sino-US relations in the past 40 years.

A similar program in Portland was attended by Deputy Consul General Yi Xianrong, who spoke to a crowd of more than 100 overseas Chinese students.

Also last week, Chinese Consul General Gao Zhansheng delivered a keynote speech at the University of California-Davis, where he told students and faculty the story of "Guling", first brought to the United States public by Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping during his visit in February.

Xi recalled how, in 1992 when he was Party chief of Fuzhou, he arranged a trip for an American woman who was trying to fulfill her late husband's wish to revisit his childhood home in China. The husband, Milton Gardner, had spent 10 years as a boy in Guling before moving back to the US in 1911, Xi said.

Gao said the story was a great validation of the importance of people-to-people exchanges. "No doubt our politicians are essential in growing our relationship," he said, "but the work to strengthen our ties should not just happen at the White House or within the walls of Zhongnanhai.he told a crowd that included Davis' Mayor Joe Krovoza and about 100 students.

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China Daily

(China Daily 11/23/2012 page23)