2006

Winter

Cutting Edge: The Beauty of Chinese Papercuts

January-February

In celebration of the Chinese New Year, the Center for Asian Arts and Media at Columbia College Chicago in conjunction with the Consulate General of the Peoples' Republic of China in Chicago presents "Cutting Edge: The Beauty of Chinese Paper Cut." On view at Columbia College Chicago Library from January 25 through February 15 with an opening reception on Thursday, January 26 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, this exhibit features approximately two hundred works of festive scenes, animal figures, opera characters and ornamental designs from Shannxi Province, a western province of China with enormous cultural heritages including one of the world wonders----Terra Cotta Warriors.

China Inc.: A Conversation with Ted C. Fishman
January

Co-sponsored by The Center for Asian Arts and Media at Columbia College, The Asian American Alliance and The Chicago Chinatown Chamber of Commerce.

China is on everyone's mind these days. Its unprecedented economic growth in both size and pace to date has made this nation the most critical and competitive market in the world. Just how has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of global capitalism? What does it mean that China now grows three times faster than the
United States? That China uses 40 percent of the world's concrete and 25 percent of its steel? What is the global impact of 300 million rural Chinese walking off their farms and heading to the cities in the greatest migration in human history? Why do nearly all of the world's biggest
companies now have large-scale operations in China? Ted C. Fishman, author of the best-selling book China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World, presents a timely, engaging account of China's emergence as a world power and its impact on
the lives and business of people across the globe.

In addition to its success in America, Ted C. Fishman's best-selling book China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World has been translated and published in Japan, China, France, Taiwan, Korea, Spain, and Turkey. Fishman's essays, reports and
commentaries appear in many of the world's most prominent media, including The New York Times Magazine, Money, Harper's, Worth, INC, ABC, CNN, Fox, the BBC, CNBC, PBS, NPR, Public Radio International, among many others.

Spring

Rice, Chopsticks, and the Melting Pot: Asian American Restaurants

How did Thai food become so ubiquitous in Chicago? Which Chinese dishes were invented in the US? What effect has Asian cuisine had on American food and culture? Rice, Chopsticks, and the Melting Pot: Asian American Restaurants will seek answers to these questions through an exhibition and a public program series that seeks to place the Asian American restaurant within the broader context of Asian American history and American society.

Fall
Asian Animation Film Festival

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