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Mid-Autumn Festival Oct. 2 celebrates China's Great Wall with photo exhibition, presentation about ancient site's conservation


SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- Bryant University celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, on Tuesday, Oct. 2, by putting a spotlight on one of the wonders of the world, the Great Wall of China.

The event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the University's U.S.-China Institute and Confucius Institute,with special sponsorship from the Preservation Society of Newport County.

The festival includes talks by two of China's leading archaeologists, an exhibition of photographs taken by award-winning photographer Zhou Wanping(周萬萍), samples of Great Wall red wine and moon cakes, and selection of winners of a China photo competition (details below).

Schedule for Mid-Autumn Festival Tuesday, Oct. 2


3:30-4:30 p.m., Unistructure room MRC 4: Lecture presented by Dr. Wang Hui, director of the Gansu Province Cultural Relic Department and part-time professor/researcher at Lanzhou University. Dr. Wang is known for his research with the Dun Huang Yuan Quan excavation program, considered one of the top 10 Chinese archaeology discoveries. More than 20,000 relics were discovered, giving insight into Chinese paper-making technique, ethnic culture on the Silk Road, and the postal system of the Han Dynasty.
6 p.m., Unistructure, Janikies Auditorium: A 30-minute talk (in Chinese with English translation) by Dr. Yang Lin,director of the Archeology Department at the National Museum of China. While working under the State Cultural Relic Bureau, Dr. Yang was special coordinator and vice-captain of the Ping Shuo archeology team with one of the major capital construction procedures in He Nan Province. With the Shanxi Province archeology team and the History Museum of China archeology team, they have excavated over 1,000 sites from the Warring State of China (c.a. 475 BCE-221 BCE) and Qin Dynasty (221 BCE-207 BCE), recovering countless cultural relics. Dr. Yang is distinguished for his application of geographical information systems (GIS) in remote sensing and aerial archeology, particularly in archeological survey, ground localization through GPS, and space calculation and analysis through the role of 3D technology. His research and methodologies have been applied in the study of several major early cultural sites, including ancient cities and the Great Wall.
6:30-8:30 p.m. (est.): Bryant's Dragon Dance Team leads guests to the Bello Center for Information and Technology to view an extensive exhibition of Great Wall photographs taken by award-winning photographer Zhou Wanping, a long-time photographer of China’s Great Wall. A collection of his photography is available in the albumMy Hometown – Gubeikou, Jinshanling, and Simatai Sections of the Great Wall. His works have won many prizes, including the 2nd prize at the International World Heritage Photo Competition organized by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1998.

Guests will also have the opportunity to view submissions to a China photo competition (details below) and select the winner. Moon cakes, Great Wall red wine, tea and other light snacks will be available.

RSVP to China@bryant.edu by Friday, Sept. 28.

Photo Competition; deadline for submission is Sept. 26


This contest is open to the public.

All submitted photos will be displayed together with the Great Wall photo exhibition. Participants at the Mid-Autumn Festival will select the winner, which will be announced at the end of the event.

Contest Rules


One photo per person. The photo must have been taken in China by the person who is submitting, and has to be original photo without any editing or special camera effects.The photo needs to be electronically submitted in an email attachment to bryantuschinainstitute@gmail.com by Sept. 26. The file format should be JPEG and the file size should be over 500 KB.In the email submission, please include the following:

Your first name
Your last name
Email address
Phone number
Year in which the photo was taken
Chinese city and province in which photo was taken

By submitting the photo, the submitter agrees:

the U.S.-China Institute may display the photo on and after Oct. 2, 2012, on its posters and website;
the actual displays may not reflect the original photo 100 percent, due to electronic transmission and printing discrepancies.

Prizes

One first-prize winner will receive a professionally framed photo taken by Mr. Zhou (selected by the winner from a few of the photos on exhibition), a photo album by Mr. Zhou, a U.S.-China Institute souvenir watch, and two tickets to one of the historic mansions of the Preservation Society of Newport County.
Five second-prize winners each will receive a photo album by Mr. Zhou, a U.S.-China Institute souvenir watch, and two tickets to one of the historic mansions of the Preservation Society of Newport County.

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From the Desk of Mayor Allan Fung

September 18, 2012

Press Release

Mayor Fung’s Statement on the

Cranston School Department’s Ban on Father-Daughter dances

Cranston, R.I.- I am utterly disappointed to have such a time-honored tradition under attack in the name of political correctness. Traditions like this are what make up the fabric of our childhood memories and definitely contribute to the well being of our children as a whole.

In the zeal to protect people who feel they are being disenfranchised, this policy has completely denied our children of one of the most cherished traditions in their school experience. I sympathize with these parents because it seems once again that Cranston is at the epicenter of another attack on our traditions by the ACLU.

I have been flooded with calls from angry parents upset with the Cranston School Department’s decision to ban gender specific events like the Father-Daughter dances in Cranston. Although I do not have any legal authority over the issue, I implore the Cranston School Committee to review this decision and find a way to make this work for the children and their parents.

I encourage all parents that are upset with this decision to contact their school committee members and make their voices be heard.