Events

Eastern Regional Conference:

EASTERN REGIONAL CONFERENCE: September 26-28, 2008

Virginia Commonwealth University in Historic Richmond, Virginia

Theme: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA

Friday, September 26, 2008

Welcoming Committee/Airport

*Accommodations at the Historic Linden Row Inn (see contacts below)

Downtown Richmond, VA lindenrowinn@richmond.com

Saturday, September 27, 2008

9:00 a.m. Registration: $20.00

Virginia Commonwealth University

9:30 a.m. Eastern Regional Business Meeting

Mel Horowitz, Presiding

11:30 a.m. Lunch

12:30 p.m. Update on China’s Agenda 21: Embassy Official

1:00 a.m. Sustainable Development in China

Dr. Sheryl Baldwin, Professor

Virginia Commonwealth University

2:00 p.m. Martial Arts Demonstration

Mr. Lonnie Calhoun

Director of Multicultural Affairs and International Student Services

Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia

3:00 p.m. Ningxia Water Project

Mel Horowitz, Presenter

4:00 p.m. Book Signing

Authors Jack Spain and Jean Faglie

4:30 p.m. Closing

7:00 p.m. Dinner at local restaurant with all participants, cost on your own

(Times of sessions are subject to change)

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Richmond Historical Sites: Please let us know ASAP if there is interest in this.

Our chapter can arrange a tour.

*For questions as to accommodations or conference, please call

Sophie Salley: 804-355-7628 or email sasalley@yahoo.com or

Diana Greer: 804-737-2704 or email uscpfarichmond30@yahoo.com

Rooms are held under the name of Diana Greer or Jean Faglie

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International Awareness Week: Crouching Tiger or Hidden Dragon: Chinese Companies' Today & Tomorrow?" with Lily Run Ren, Assistant Professor of Management, College of Business and Economics

12:30 pm., Dorrill Dining Hall,

Nance Room

November 10, 2008

RSVP: Lonnie Calhoun, calhounli@longwood.edu

434.395.2395

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Chinese New Year Celebration

Up the Yangtze: PBS Film

January 21, 2009 @ TBA

Longwood University Visual Arts Center

Up the Yangtze is an epic journey up the river on one of the luxury cruise ships that feed the hunger of tourists to have a last look at the legendary valley, where even the mythical "Gates of Hell" at the Ghost City of Fengdu soon will be inundated. By focusing on the fortunes of two young people who work on the same ship — one a poor peasant girl and the other an urban, middle-class boy — the film reveals the river to be a symbol of the new China, where an ancient way of life disappears underwater as metropolises of mind-bending size spring up along the new shores. And where the common folk of old China are left to fend for themselves in a world being remade, literally, under their feet.

Up the Yangtze Trailer

http://www.uptheyangtze.com/trailer.php

Young and Restless in China Series

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/youngchina/nine/

Traditional Chinese Musical Performance featuring Emily Yap Chua, Associate Professor of Music, Randolph College and Family