{"id":27848,"date":"2016-10-19T14:02:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T01:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nzcfs.adminmouse.co.nz\/?p=27848"},"modified":"2016-10-19T19:24:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T06:24:17","slug":"celebrating-chinese-culture-in-palmerston-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/celebrating-chinese-culture-in-palmerston-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Chinese Culture In Palmerston North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>10th September &#8211; 2nd October 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/moon-festival.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-27850\" src=\"http:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/moon-festival-350x187.jpg\" alt=\"moon-festival\" width=\"350\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/moon-festival-350x187.jpg 350w, https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/moon-festival-230x123.jpg 230w, https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/moon-festival-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/moon-festival-640x342.jpg 640w, https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/moon-festival-681x364.jpg 681w, https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/moon-festival.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>The Manawatu Branch of the New Zealand China Friendship Society will be organising the following events at the City Library:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:\u00a0 Sunday 18th September 2016 2-4pm<br \/>\n <\/strong><strong>Legacies of Culture and Friendship <\/strong><strong>\u50b3<\/strong><strong>\u627f<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>China is a place rich in cultural legacies.\u00a0 Is it easy to keep such legacies alive in modern day China?<br \/>\n <\/em><em>A New Zealander called Rewi Alley left a great legacy in China.\u00a0 How can a legacy of friendship be continued over 60 years?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To explore these topics, join the NZCFS for : <br \/>\n A documentary screening on Chinese cultural legacies, village life, Spring Festival, filial duties and traditions \u2013 centred around a martial arts family.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Videos about the life in \u201cRewi Alley\u201d school.<\/li>\n<li>A presentation on ongoing NZ friendship projects in China.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Date : Friday 23rd September 2016 6.30pm<br \/>\n <\/strong><strong>Chinese Movie (with English subtitles) \u2013 American Dreams in China<\/strong><strong>\u4e2d\u56fd\u5408\u4f19\u4eba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Based on a true story, this award-winning film is about 3 young men building a successful English school to help Chinese teenagers fulfill their dreams.\u00a0 Spanned almost 30 years, the film embodies references to major moments in contemporary Chinese history.\u00a0 <strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Manawatu Branch members have also t<\/em><em>ranslated and made Chinese signage to display alongside the English signage at the Library (mainly on Level 1) and arranged a display of Chinese artifacts in front of the Main Desk on Level 1.\u00a0<\/em><em>Everyone is welcome to attend <\/em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10th September &#8211; 2nd October 2016 The Manawatu Branch of the New Zealand China Friendship Society will be organising the following events at the City Library: Date:\u00a0 Sunday 18th September 2016 2-4pm Legacies of Culture and Friendship \u50b3\u627f China is a place rich in cultural legacies.\u00a0 Is it easy to keep such legacies alive in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":27850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}