Midwest and National

2009 USCPFA NATIONAL CONVENTION

ABOVE: Wen Li, Mary Warpeha, Consul General Cao Zhansheng, Barbara Harrison, James Grantman

Four Minnesota Chapter Members attended the National Convention of USCPFA held in Septemberin San Francisco. The theme was: 60 Years of Independence and 30 Years of Normalization.

The San Francisco Chapter arranged a wonderfully informative program which included, a DVD entitled Autumn Gem (chronicling the life of the first feminist in China, Qiu Jin), a presentation by author Jana McBurney-Lin entitled MY HALF OF THE SKY, Gary Hicks detailing African American poets on China, Al Sargis on Carlson’s Raiders, report on the past and changes in China by Barbara Harrison, John Marienthal, and Bart Trescott. The keynote speaker was Dr. Ling-Chi Wang addressing the 60/30 of Socialist Reform in China.

Minnesota Chapter Board Member convened the Annual Meeting Plenary Session. Minnesota Chapter Co-President was honored with a volunteer award for service.

BELOW: Midwest attendees at the National Convention, Wen Li and James Grantman not shown

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MOON FESTIVAL IN MINNESOTA

A HUGE success


Minnesota Chapter of US –China Peoples Friendship Association
hosted this event on September 12, 13, 2008
in St. Paul and Minneapolis: SEE DETAILS ON THE 2008
HIGHLIGHTS PAGE

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The 18^th Washington Seminar on US-China Relations

April 17 & 18, 2008 - Thursday and Friday - 9:00-8:00pm

www.uscpfa.org

Purpose: To provide a forum to consider issues relevant to relations between the United States and China through interaction with experts at the leading edge of US-China relations.

Topics and Speakers include:

+Managing US-China Relations by Dr. Quansheng Zhao, Professor & Division Director of Comparative & Regional Studies and Director of Center for Asian Studies at American University in Washington, DC, and Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research of Harvard University

+China’s Current ‘Journey to the West'— Recent Developments in its Adoption of a Contemporary Commercial Framework by Preston Torbert, Partner and a Founder of the China Practice of Baker & McKenzie, International Law Firm in Chicago

+New U.S. Practice of Assessing Penalty Countervailing Duties on Goods Exported from Subsidized Chinese Companies (working title) by Deputy Assistant Secretary Stephen Claeys, International Trade Administration

+Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in China and WTO Action by U.S. (working title) by Susan Anthony, Attorney Advisor, & Tim Browning, Office of Intellectual Property Policy and Enforcement, United States Patent and Trademark Office (pending)

+Reconciling Coal with Environmental Protection in China by Kelly Sims Gallagher, Ph.D, Director of Energy Technology Innovation Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Adjunct Lecturer, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

+Migration and China's Urban Transformation by Dr. Weiping Wu, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning & International Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University

+China Briefing at the U.S. Department of State

+National Archives: Rotunda tour (founding documents) & discussion of Chinese immigration from Archive records (pending)

Photos from the October, 2004 Midwest Region Conference

Left to right: Charles Petersen, Barbara Harrison, Consul General Xu Jinzhong, Scott Stuart (Nelson Atkins Museum of Art), and Mary Warpeha

Kansas City Conference Coordinator Joyce Cox welcoming Conference attendees

Left to right: "Women in China: Change and Challenges" presenters Liu Meiyan and Carolyn Kadel

Robe and table available for purchase at FaFa Gallery, host of a tea reception following Museum tours

Kansas City Chinese Ensemble entertained an attentive audience with their accomplished performances on the erhu, gaohu, zheng, yang qin and accordion

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Photos from the National Convention

Minnesota attendees posed with Consul General Xu Jinzhong from left: Wen Li, Linda Mealey-Lohmann, Mary Warpeha, Xu Jinzhong, Barbara Harrison, Charles Petersen, Judith Swanholm

Consul General Xu Jinzhong offers a promise of assistance in developing a Northern-style Chinese garden to Minnesota Garden Committee members Barbara Harrison and Linda Mealey-Lohmann, Committee Chair

Minnesota Chapter prize winning T-shirt and peasant painter cards were sold

Saturday Banquet speaker and Minnesota Region Chair, Robert Sanborn, with Dr. Keith Krasemann, National Convention Chair, looking on

Consul General Xu Jinzhong at the Saturday evening banquet

click to enlarge

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Three photos of the USCPFA and Beijing sponsored traveling exhibit of Western China

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USCPFA National will host a traveling exhibit of the effects of Soong Ching Ling. The initial exhibit (one of several being planned) was displayed at the Southeby's Gallery in Downtown Chicago.

Barbara Harrison, National Chairperson, accepts an embroidered reproduction of the diadem displayed on the Soong Ching Ling fashion. The embroidery was presented by Curators from the Soong Ching Ling Museum and Dr. Charles Li, volunteer and exhibit liaison in the United States.

Photo of Soong Ching Ling from the traveling exhibit.

Watch for a notice of the exhibit arrival in Minnesota


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