Dear reader,
Chinese New Year 2012 is looming, and this email provides you with some
information on how it is being marked by the SCA and others in Scotland.
Watch our website, www.scotchina.org, for more as we get it ! Details of
our New Year dinner in Edinburgh on 7 February will be issued next week.
For general background to the Chinese New Year, and to the Year of the
Dragon, see these new articles on our website :
http://www.scotchina.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=210:chinese-new-year-2012&catid=62:news&Itemid=53
<http://www.scotchina.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=210:chinese-new-year-2012&catid=62:news&Itemid=53>
http://www.scotchina.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=211:chinese-dragons&catid=62:news&Itemid=53
<http://www.scotchina.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=211:chinese-dragons&catid=62:news&Itemid=53>
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SCA Year of the Dragon greetings cards
Our attractive SCA Year of the Dragon greetings cards are now available,
in two designs. Ideal for Chinese New Year greetings, as well as thank
you cards, birthday cards, even wedding invitations throughout the year.
This year, we have also created a panda card, to mark the arrival of
Tian Tian and Yuang Gang at Edinburgh Zoo.
See the front page of our website, www.scotchina.org, for the images and
to download an order form.
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Take One Action Film Festival, Edinburgh
'China On The Move - Marking Chinese New Year on Film' (25th - 29th
January 2012)
Think you know China? Look again. To mark Chinese New Year, four
award-winning films offer different perspectives on the complex
transformations taking place in contemporary Chinese cinema, society and
industry, and how they relate to the wider world.
Film Programme:
MR TREE
8.15pm WED 25 JANUARY (ages 15+)
This double prize winner at Shanghai Film festival charts a year in the
life of Mr Shu (aka Tree), a Chinese man with learning difficulties
whose life allegorically mirrors the social and economic development in
his home town.
LAST TRAIN HOME
8.15pm THURS 26 JANUARY (ages 15+)
Winner of Best Film at the world's leading documentary festival, Last
Train Home draws us into the fractured lives of a single family caught
up in the extraoardinary annual migration home at Chinese New Year.
Intimate and candid, the film paints a huma portrait of the dramatic
changes sweeping China.
APART TOGETHER
6pm SAT 28 JANUARY (ages 12+)
Signalling a new frontier in representations of China's history and its
relationships with the outside world. The opening film and winner of
Best Screenplay at Berlin Film Festival, Apart Together is a tale of
bittersweet late life romance, as former lovers separated by China's
civil war are reunited 50 years later.
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES
6pm SUN 29 JANUARY (ages 12+)
In a series of extraordinary visual portraits, acclaimed artist Edward
Burtynsky travels through China photographing some of the most surreal
landscapes of the twenty-first century: the evidence and effects of
China's massive industrial revolution and its implicit but hotly debated
impact on the environment.
All 'China on the Move' screenings will be presented by Take One Action
and followed by expert and audience discussion.
Click on the link below for full film details, trailers and to book
tickets for single events online (discounts do not apply to online
bookings).
www.takeoneaction.org.uk/events/strands/faces-of-change/
Special Offers:
Download the 'China on the Move' flyer to get
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Dr Sarah Dauncey
Chinese Language Programme Director & Chinese Degree Tutor
Careers Officer & Alumni Liaison
School of East Asian Studies
University of Sheffield (Times Higher Education University of the Year)
http://www.shef.ac.uk/seas/
Honorary Secretary
British Association of Chinese Studies
http://www.bacsuk.org.uk/
6-8 Shearwood Road
Sheffield, S10 2TD
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)114 22 28436
Fax: +44 (0)114 22 28432
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