About CCCC
The Cambridge
Center for Chinese Culture(CCCC) is a non-profit organization
registered in Massachusetts, USA, by Chinese scholars. It aims at
promoting Chinese culture, advance the status of
Chinese-Americans, and promote US-China. relations through
Chinese language education, publication, and cultural exchange.
The Board of Trustees of
the CCCC consists of Ji Humin as President, Tao Kai as
Vice-President, and Li Zhengling, Gao Qing, and Tang Xiao as
members. Zhou Hong and Zhou Xiaozhong are Honorary Chairmen of
the Board of Trustees of the CCCC.
Chinese
Language Teaching
The Cambridge
Chinese School
,a subsidiary of the CCCC , is devoted to Chinese language
teaching. Established in 1991, the Cambridge Chinese School is
the first school on the east coast for teaching elementary,
middle and high school students standard Chinese pronunciation,
simplified characters, and the Chinese phonetic alphabet. With
the help from the City of Cambridge and through years of hard
work by teachers and staff members, the Cambridge Chinese School
has evolved from a small after-school class with one teacher and
seven students to a regular educational institution of thirty-four
teachers and more than six hundred students. It offers after-school
,weekend as well as summer program. Today the Cambridge Chinese
School has registered with the educational department of
Massachusetts, and has become a member of the Chinese School
Association in the United States(CSAUS).
Publication and Distribution:
Founded in 1998, "American and Chinese : Society and
Culture",
is a Chinese-English academic journal published quarterly by the
Cambridge Center For Chinese Culture and the Boston Institute of
American and Chinese Cultures.
Beginning in 1999, The
CCCC publishes and distributes "Cambridge
Forum",the
newsletter of the Cambridge Chinese School.
In 1999, the CCCC also
launched its web site on the Internet. The wed address is: http://www.bostoncccc.org
"Digests of Books and
Newspapers" is a reference resource that compiles reports
and pictures of about the activities of the CCCC from both
Chinese and English newspapers and journals.
Cultural Exchange:
Since its establishment,
the CCCC has actively participated in activities and programs of
scholarly and cultural exchanges between schools, regions and
countries. These activities and programs include: sponsoring of
large academic conferences and small seminars, setting up a China
booth in an international fair, arranging performance in the
Boston area by top Chinese artists, organizing in the New England
area the celebration for the handover of Hong Kong, taking part
in the grand parade celebrating the 150th anniversary of the City
of Cambridge.
By playing an important
role in these activities and programs, the CCCC has made a
valuable contributions to promoting solidarity among various
Chinese-American organizations and fostering mutual understanding
and friendship between the Chinese and American people.
