Chinese Martial Arts: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Chinese kung fu is perhaps the single Chinese cultural tradition that is most widely recognized the world over. What was once an obscure fighting art practiced in secrecy by monks, rebels and warriors in ancient China is now part of the global pop culture as is evident by international block buster movies like Crouching Tiger … Read more

The New Profile of Chinese Americans

Kwong will talk about dramatic economic and political changes that have occurred within the Chinese community during the last twenty years and the challenges they have posed.

Transnational Chinese Villagers: NY’s Fuzhounese Immigrants Build a Global Community

Over the past twenty years Fuzhounese immigrants have transformed the face of New York’s Chinatown, supplanting the Cantonese as Chinatown’s largest ethnic Chinese community and vying for leadership in the area’s economics, politics, social life, and even language use. Drawing upon ongoing field research in New York and Fuzhou, this lecture will explore the emergence … Read more

Experiencing China and Chinese Culture: CUNY Study Abroad in China

This lecture will talk about unique features of CUNY-Asian-faculty-led study abroad in China program. In particular, the lecture will discuss various educational benefits of the program while students and faculty have real experience of China’s society, the people, the language, and culture. Topics: how the trip is organized prominent and unique features of the program … Read more