Calvary Church 7520 Golden Valley Road Golden Valley, Mn http://tolib.org/signup
Place: Weyerhaeuser Memorial Chapel,
Macalester College
1600 Grand Ave. 55105
Free Admission. Open to the public.
Premiering four new compositions from Ying
“Oasis” “Spring
Twin Cities Chinese Dance Center ( TCCDC) 2012 Mothers Day Tribute Show will be held on May 20 (Sunday) 4:00pm at Woodbury High School. Teacher Zhang has devoted countless time and her artistic talent to this show. The
Annual festival with Asian Pacific performance, cultural events, and authentic Dragon Boat Racing. St. Paul, MN Details
By Jodi Yim James, Staff Writer
“Every school in Minnesota would love to have a Chinese language program.”
Ursula Lentz, Minnesota Department of Education
Ursula Lentz is the new World Language expert at the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). When I spoke with her, she had been on the job for all of three days.
Previously, Jan Kittok was the World Languages Coordinator for MDE; Kittok is now the World Languages Administrator for all of Minneapolis Public Schools. She was featured in an earlier interview for China Insight.
Lentz’s official title is MDE World Language & English Learner Education Specialist. Her contact information is 651-582-8664, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Since Lentz has only been on the job three days, we are going to give her a break and get back to her later when she is comfortable in her new hat. However, it should be noted that Lentz worked for many years on language assessments with CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition) at the University of Minnesota.
By Greg Hugh, Staff Writer
May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month – a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. A rather broad term, Asian-Pacific encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia (New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and the Solomon Islands), Micronesia (Marianas, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia) and Polynesia (New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, Midway Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Easter Island).
2010 Census and 2008-2010 American Community Survey Report
By the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans
Census Reporting
This report will provide an overview of Asian and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander populations based on the 2010 Census and the 2008-2010 American Community Survey. Five race categories are used in the Census; White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN), Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders (NHPI) and Hispanic Origin. For the first time in Census 2000, individuals were also able to select ‘one or more boxes’ on race to allow individuals of mixed race backgrounds to identify as such. This option continued with the 2010 Census. This report primarily focuses on the Asian and NHPI populations.
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) defines “Asian” as people with origins in the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. For the 2010 Census, individuals were able to self-identified under seven Asian response categories; Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese or Other Asian.
Returning to Mall of America on April 21 and 22 for its 5th annual presentation of A Passage to China, the Chinese Heritage Foundation, together with China Insight, reaffirms its goals by ‘inscribing’ them in both English and Chinese on its entrance gates into the Rotunda. There is no better way to achieve its goals of mutual understanding and mutual courtesy between the Chinese community and the greater Twin Cities community than to have proponents from both communities come together at Passage.
By Kent Clark, China Correspondent

The ability to communicate clearly with others is a skill. The more people one knows, the more one realizes that riding a unicycle while juggling four flaming piggy banks is easier for some than the simple act of communicating an idea or a feeling. Due to many linguistic and cultural differences, China is a fertile breeding ground for communication mishaps. Of course language is a rather large reason for these misunderstandings, but culture plays a very important role as well. The picture above is one from a series depicting the multitude of cultural differences between China and the generic “west”- a generalization of North American and European cultures.
Sustaining Growth
By Philip Schellekens, et al., World Bank Office, Beijing
Executive Summary
Recent Economic Developments
The Chinese economy is in the midst of a gradual slowdown. A weaker global economic environment and tighter domestic policies combined to slow GDP growth from 10.4 percent in 2010 to 9.2 percent in 2011. Slow growth in the Euro area and sluggish recovery in the [United States] limited the contribution of net exports, as exports decelerated more rapidly than imports. Tighter domestic policy conditions dampened investment – particularly in infrastructure and real estate. In contrast, consumption growth remained robust as consumer confidence was sustained and household income continued to grow rapidly.
Vegetarian trends build on venerable Chinese traditions
By Wang Yuan, China Daily
From the moment you enter, you feel that this is going to be a different kind of restaurant. The green gate at the entrance, the wooden tables in the siheyuan, or courtyard house, and the traditional Chinese decorations whisper one word: Confucius.

by Anthony James, Staff Writer
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China would provide further support in accordance with its own capacity in light of the Afghan needs, said Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Monday.
Senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Li Changchun on Monday watched a Chinese opera in downtown Beijing.
Laos and China pledged on Monday to deepen military exchanges and cooperation, strengthen unity and friendship between the two countries'militaries and work together to maintain regional peace and stability.
Liu also gave positive appraisals to the development of the China-Africa traditional relations and noted that the cooperation between the two sides has been strengthened and the importance has been highlighted in concertedly deal with challenges in the current international system.
Cameroon Prime Minister Philemon Yang held talks with visiting Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong in Yaounde on Monday on strengthening cooperation between their two nations.
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