11.19.2010

Christmas Program

After class on December 12 at 3 pm, parents and friends are welcome to join us in the Choir room at the Saint Joseph High School for a brief performance and appetizers. 

Come see what we have learned this semester!

Halloween at Bridge to China

Halloween was celebrated at Bridge to China!  The children dressed up and went to each classroom while saying Trick or Treat 糖就捣蛋 and Happy Halloween 万圣节快乐 in Chinese.   It was a fun day for all!







9.21.2010

Chinese Film Festival

The Confucius Institute of Western Michigan University will be presenting a Contemporary Chinese Film Series starting September 28 at the Timothy Light Center for Chinese Studies.  For more information follow this link  Chinese Film Series

Mid Autumn Festival

Today is the Mid Autumn Festival.  This last week the students celebrated at Bridge to China with homemade Moon Cakes.  To give you more history on this event, please follow this link Wikipedia - Mid Autumn Festival

9.02.2010

Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love and Language

Attached is a link to a recent NPR Interview with Deborah Fallows re: her new book "Dreaming in Chinese"

Dreaming in Chinese

8.27.2010

Beauty Amid Thunder: The Past Two Centuries of Chinese Art

Please be aware of a new Exhibit at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts


To celebrate the opening of the Joy Light Gallery of Asian Art, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts will feature two exhibitions with selections from the Richard Fabian Collection, a distinguished and extensive private collection of Chinese art. Through hanging scrolls, painted fans, and illustrated albums, both exhibitions will feature landscape, bird-and-flower, and figurative paintings, as well as fine examples of the revered art of calligraphy. Our exhibition will focus on the late 19th and 20th centuries, a period of great change in China's political, social, and cultural landscape

8.15.2010

New Blog for Bridge to China

School Begins September 19, 2010. 

Please visit our website for class listings, times and locations. 

Teachers will be posting assignments and events on this blog along with learning resources during the school year.