Sarasota Chapter Meeting February 20

From President Duane Finger:

Our next Chapter meeting will be on Sunday, Feb. 20, at 3 pm, in our Condo meeting room and theatre.  We will have a pot luck beginning at 3 pm followed at 4:30 pm by the first of our 1930's Chinese Movie Series, with the Frank Capra Classis of 1933," The Bitter Tea of General Yen",starring Barbara Stanwyck and Nils Asther.

For more info, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bitter_Tea_of_General_Yen

Bookworms To Meet February 27

From Suzanne Kreis:

!Welcome Back China Bookworms! 

It is Wonderful to Learn through Experience,

yet, the Joy of Armchair Travel has much to Teach us.

Share your Thoughts and Recommendations with other Bookworms

Tell  which books, articles, and other sources

inform and enlighten us about China's past and present-

witness:"  Chinese Factory Girls"," China Road", "Mao's Great Famine"  

Recent magazine articles inform us about dissident writers, etc.

  NewYorker's Letter from China :"Meet Dr.Freud", is brand new!

 

We will meet on the last Sunday afternoon of February

to discuss varied readings by group members

in the home of Suzanne Kreis,

details to follow

Please RSVP to Skayak7@yahoo.com



Sarasota Chapter Meeting January 16

The Sarasota Chapter had a wonderful meeting today.  The program was presented by Jill Dye and Duane Finger. 

Duane began by telling us all about Josef Rock and his adventures in early China.  He shared the National Geographic articles written from 1924 - 1935 covering the exploits of this adventurer.  What an exotic, interesting character he was!  Duane read us part of Dr. Rock's obituary.  Here is a link where you can read the entire write-up:  http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/hibd/departments/Archives/Archives-HR/Rock.shtml.

This was followed by video shot of Dr. Rock's home in Yunnan Province when Jill and Duane led a group to China.  Laz taped a portion of Martin Yan's PBS Special Hidden China program and we again visited where Dr. Rock lived. 

Jill told us all about the Naxi minority in Li Jiang.  How impressive this matriarchal society is! 

Thanks to Dr. Rock the history and culture of this fascinating people has been preserved.

We then had a delicious dinner together sharing Chinese and American food.  As always there was much conversation and laughter.

A brief business meeting followed.


--Report written by Grace McKee