Featured Within the 3rd Annual Chinese Culture Festival

Professor Hai Ren from the College of Humanities’ Department of East Asian Studies will participate in this year's 3rd Annual Chinese Culture Festival presented by the Confucius Institute at the University of Arizona (CIUA). Professor Ren will discuss the relationship between public time-telling and media as a way of understanding the history of public time-telling in China. This talk is free and open to the public and will take place in the Ventana Room of the Student Union at 12:00 p.m. on September 22^nd.

This year is the tenth anniversary of the establishment of Confucius Institutes around the world. CIUA will join other Confucius Institutes to hold a Confucius Institute Day as the opening of the 2014 CIUA Chinese Culture Festival. Special lectures on Chinese concepts of time and on Confucius as an historical figure will be presented by faculty from the College of Humanities' Department of East Asian Studies. The theme of this year's festival is "Health Promotion and Wellness." In addition to the annual language competition, culture exhibition, concert, and Chinese martial arts demonstration, CIUA will present a special Chinese food therapy dinner lecture, a professional workshop on traditional Chinese medicine, and a lecture on acupuncture and health by faculty from leading universities of Chinese medicine in China. Tucsonans are guaranteed a rich cultural experience. Last year, more than 3,000 Arizonans participated in the CIUA Chinese Culture Festival.

Co-sponsors: UA College of Humanities, UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, UA School of Anthropology, UA School of Music, Tucson Sino Choir, Tucson Chinese Cultural Center, Han University of Traditional Medicine. The festival will be held on the University of Arizona campus and other venues across the Tucson metropolitan area. All events are open to the public and most are free. Please visit the CIUA website, http://confucius.arizona.edu, or call 520-626-5124 for additional information about the Chinese Culture Festival and the Institute.