The Beijing Center will be closed from Jul 20th to Aug 26th
2008-7-11

To celebrate the Olympics in Beijing, The Beijing Center will be closed from July 20th to the arrival of the fall semester students on August 26th.

TBC offices and library will be closed for two weeks
2008-5-22

The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies will be celebrating the completion of our 10th year at a reception, dinner and Mass in Chicago the weekend of June 6-8, 2008. The TBC offices and library will be closed for two weeks from Saturday, May 31st to Monday, June 16th . We apologize for any inconvenience. We will be back on June 16th to start our Second Decade of educating the academic community about China.

TBC Library Hours(May & June, 2008)
2008-5-15

Mon: 9:00 am - 9:00 pm
Tue - Fri: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sat, Sun: closed

TBC Library Hours for Finals
2008-5-5

May 5th - 15th: 9:00 am - 10:00 pm
May 16th: 9:00 pm - 5:00 pm

TBC Library Special Notice
2008-4-2

April 4th (Friday), 2008 is Chinese Qingming Festival or Tomb-sweeping Day this year. Just from this year, this traditional Chinese memorial day for ancestors becomes one of the Chinese official holidays, so TBC Library will be closed for a day. Thank you.

April 4th (Friday) : closed

TBC's annual campus-wide recruitment starts!
2008-3-14

TBC's annual campus-wide recruitment for host students, tutors, Chinese roommates and librarians is quickly approaching! The informational meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 18 at 6:30 pm, in the Ning Yuan building, room 526.

On-line applications will be available at: recruit.thebeijingcenter.org
beginning March 18 @ 8pm. No applications will be accepted after 12 midnight on March 30.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Acrobatic Show
2008-2-28

On Saturday, March 1st, TBC students are going to watch Top Acrobatic Class by China National Acrobatic Troupe at Tiandi Theatre.

Academic Trip to Yunnan
2008-1-29

On February 2, 2008 all 104 TBC students, along with 12 staff members, will depart for a 15 days excursion to the beautiful and dynamic Yunnan Province. Yunnan is best known for its UNESCO World Heritage sites, its diverse climate, as well as being home to twenty-five of China's 55 minorities.

Students will visit the villages of four of these minorities (Yi, Hani, Dai and Naxi) to observe and experience first hand their lives and cultures. To further enhance this immersion program, a home-stay is planned with each of these minority groups. Other plans include hiking on a snow-capped mountain, exploring a tropical rain forest and celebrating the Chinese New Year with minority villagers.

TBC Library Hours(2008 Spring Festival)
2008-1-28

Feb 2nd(Sat)-16th(Sat):closed
Feb 17th(Sun):2pm-9pm

TBC Library Special Notice
2008-1-17

This coming weekend is the Chinese National Graduate School Entrance Exam. Ning Yuan Building, where TBC library is located in, will be closed for exams only from Friday afternoon to Monday morning. So TBC library hours of these three days will be: (thank you for understanding)

Jan 18th(Friday):9:00 am-3:00 pm
Jan 19th, 20th:closed

TBC Library Hours(Spring, 2008)
2008-1-7

Mon-Thu: 9:00am - 9:00pm
Fridays: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Saturdays: closed
Sundays: 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm

TBC Library Hours(Jan 3rd - 9th, 2008)
2008-1-2

Jan 3rd (Wed)-9th (Wed): 9:00am - 5:00pm
Jan 5th (Sat), 6th (Sun): Closed

TBC Library Hours for Holidays(Dec 15th-Jan 2nd, 2008)
2007-12-13

Dec 15-16,Dec 22-25,Dec 29-Jan 1: CLOSED
Dec 17-20,Dec 27: 9 am - 5 pm
Dec 21,Dec 28: 09 am - 3 pm
Dec 26,Jan 2: 10 am - 5 pm

Congratulations to International Basketball Teams
2007-11-30

The Men and Women's International Basketball Teams participated in the finals on Nov. 29th. And they both won the competition. The final scores were: Men's team 74:41 and Women's team 32:21. The following TBC students represented the international teams: Kati Meyer, Mary Beth Logue, Tricia Wong, Sara Bramhall, Chris Rall, Jeff Bauer, Joe Eggleston, Reid Vilbig, and Pat Keaney.

Basketball Tournament Finals
2007-11-26

Special Library Hours
2007-11-19

Thanksgiving Day

Nov 22rd (Thu):9:00 am-5:00 pm

Weekend Classes

Nov 24th (Sat):12:01 pm-5:00 pm

Special Library Hours(Weekend Class - 11/10 & 11/11)
2007-11-06

Nov 10th (Sat): 9 AM-5 PM

Nov 11th (Sun): 9 AM-9 PM

Acrobatic Show
2007-11-05

Guilin Trip
2007-10-23

From Saturday, October 27 to Saturday, November 3, 116 students and 8 staff members will travel to Guilin, Longsheng and Yangshuo in Guangxi province for the fall break. Students will see rice terraces fields in remote mountains, party with village school children, kayak along the Li River, and enjoy a hot spring bath in a national forest park.

The Great Wall Trip
2007-10-17

Seventy-nine TBC students together with four staff members will visit Shanhaiguan, the east end of the Great Wall October 20th and 21st. Students will climb one of the steepest parts of the Great Wall, visit the fort right by the ocean and relax on the beach.

Upcoming Events: Basketball game, biking hutongs and shopping tour
2007-10-11

Friday, October 12th, TBC students are going to have a basketball game with UIBE basketball association.

Saturday, October 13th, TBC students, Chinese roommates and host students will explore Beijing hutongs by bike. Hutongs are small alleys which had been the main residential areas for Beijingers for 700 years.

Saturday and Sunday, October 13th and 14th, host students and TBCers will go to the Wool Spinning City to select fabric and have clothes custom made.

Volunteer Services
2007-10-10

Over 30 TBC students and host students have begun volunteer services teaching English at the Rural Women Association, the Chaoyang Disabled Union and other nearby communities. In addition, to help the patients in the Chaoyang Mental Hospital to help themselves, Crazy Bagels are sold at TBC every Wednesday. All the proceeds go to the hospital for the patients' benefit.

Camping Trip
2007-09-28

On October 5th and 6th, TBC students are going on a two-day camping trip to a mountain in Beijing suburbs. During the two days, students will have a 7.5-mile hike, camp at an ancient watch tower along the Great Wall, and see some very diverse scenery.

Tian'anmen Square Trip
2007-09-28

This Saturday evening, TBC students along with Chinese roommates and host students will visit Tian'anmen Square. During the upcoming National Day Holidays, there are over 400,000 flowering plants arranged in different themes. The night lighting and the flowers turn the square into a colorful ocean.

National Day Holidays
2007-09-28

China will celebrate her 58th National Day Holidays from October 1st to 7th this year, also known as the "Golden Week". TBC students will have no class during this week. TBC wishes all a happy holiday.

Upcoming Events: Mid-autumn Festival and the Great Wall Trip
2007-09-25

Happy Mid-autumn Festival! It is the 15th day of the 8th month in the Chinese calendar, and September 25th, 2007 in the western calendar. This festival is the traditional Chinese holiday for family res. Today, all family members or friends meet outside, eat food, and enjoy the full moon. The School of International Education has planned a party for all international students in front of our residence hall tonight at 6. Looking at the full moon tonight implies that we are sharing the same moon with our loved ones, no matter how far away they are.

This Saturday, October 29, the School of International Education will sponsor a trip to the Mutianyu Great Wall. TBC students will have an opportunity to climb up the Great Wall with 350 students at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) from all over the world.

Upcoming events
2007-09-21

Sunday, September 23rd -- Chinese roommates and host students have planned a trip to 798 Art Zone, one of the Top 10 Art Zones in the world awarded by Forbes. The trip also includes a dim-sum lunch at the most famous Cantonese restaurant in Beijing .

Summer Palace Trip
2007-09-19

On Saturday, September 15th TBC sponsored the first weekend trip of the semester.

Additional Study Space
2007-09-20

To accommodate the need for additional study space, three TBC classrooms will remain open until 9pm, Monday

Our one hundred and sixteen new students set off with nine staff members on a great adventure through China August 16!
2007-08-16

Our one hundred and sixteen new students set off with nine staff members on a great adventure through China August 16!Departing in two cohorts, one traveling from Beijing to far northwest Urumqi, the other from Urumqi to Beijing, we will explore the fabled Silk Road. That path is cobbled of the relics of the Chinese cultures that inform China even today. In a tomb, strewn with thousands of life-size clay warriors that failed to protect their master in death, we come to understand how the death of that first Han Emperor gave a 2000 year life to imperial China. Here in his old capital we also make our first contacts with China's flourishing Islamic culture. We begin to marvel that a religious culture from so far away has ancient roots so deep in China. In Xiahe we meet another magnificent religious current, Tibetan Buddhism. In Labrang's vast monastery we ask wise monks how a religious spirit can live in China's roaring technology.Deep in the Taklamakan Desert we meet yet another manifestation of China's culture, the mingling of Indian Buddhism with Roman togas and the Silk Trade. Here in the Mogao and Binglingsi caves artisans carved fine votive Romanesque statues of the Buddha to beg fortune and safe passage in much the same way as we light vigil lights in hopes of blessings. In the enormous arid Xinjiang Province we re-meet our Islamic brothers and sisters, now observing them in the cultural patterns of the Uyujur. We dance to their music, sleep under their grape arbors, and delight to discover a hundred varieties of raisins. Finally in Urumqi we climb to the heights of Lake Tianchi to scramble across the volcanic rocks with gambling sheep and goats. That night we eat roasted lamb with China's Kazaks and look into faces that mirror back to us the marriage of East and West. We sleep in their high altitude yurts only to wake up to the cold and the more sudden reality that we must return to Beijing.