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Feature: How one artist is bringing Chinese culture to Chicago students
Xinhuanet/by Jian Ping
CHICAGO, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Students from several grades at Kenwood Academy High School in Chicago Thursday gathered in a class to learn Chinese art and culture. They focused intensely on the hands-on activity of carving images on eggshells.
Artists From China To CPS Schools
As one of the activities to celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Dog, the Chicago Chinese Language Center invited three artists from China to bring Chinese folk art of puppet, dough figurine and paper-cutting into CPS schools.
Chinese Cultural Festival 2017
The 2017 Chinese Cultural Festival took place at Whitney Young Magnet High School on Saturday, September 23, 2017.
Xinhua News Agency covered the event. Click on the title of the coverage for details Chicago students, parents celebrate Chinese Cultural Festival.
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2017 CPS Arabic & Chinese STARTALK Program
2017 CPS Arabic & Chinese STARTALK Program video. Please click here to watch.
Celebrating 11 Years of Successful CPS Student Chinese Study Abroad Program
On July 20, 2017, another 24 CPS high school students successfully completed the CPS Student Study Abroad program in China and came back to Chicago. By then, funding received for this extracurricular program totaled over 2.5 million dollars and 283 students benefited from the program.
Artists from China Program Features Chinese Fine Arts Teacher from Jiangsu
A Celebration of Chinese Culture
The 3rd annual Chinese Cultural Festival, organized by the Confucius Institute in Chicago (CIC) and Chicago Public Schools (CPS), took place at Whitney Young Magnet High School from 10 am to 2 pm on Saturday, Sept. 24. More than two thousand CPS students, their siblings and parents, and members from the public attended the festival.
New agreement signed to extend “study abroad program in China” for another three years
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Pin Ni, President of Wangxiang American Corporation, signed a new agreement on Aug. 3 that will extend the partnership between the City of Chicago and Wanxiang to support “Study Abroad” program in China for students at Chicago Public Schools (CPS).
CPS students spent four weeks in China over the summer
Twenty-four CPS high school students traveled to China this summer. They attended a four-week intensive Chinese immersion program at the Hangzhou Wanxiang Polytechnic (WXP), a trade college in Hangzhou, China. The program is part of the President Barack Obama’s 100,000 Strong Initiative and is funded by the generous support from the Wanxiang American Corp in Chicago and the Wanxiang Group in Hangzhou.
This is the fifth year that Wanxiang supported the program.
CIC and CPS students celebrating Chicago's Asian Festival
The City of Chicago featured many activities in the celebration of the Asian and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month in May. CIC and CPS students took pride in staging performances to celebrate the culture, traditions, and history of Asian Americans at the Daley Plaza on May 18.
This year’s Asian Festival was co-hosted by the local Chinese community and the Pakistani community. CIC & CPS students in the Chinese World Language Program were invited to present a number of performances showing Chinese culture.
