Marvels of China: Pathways to the Pacific Rim on AM 1490 WGCH and Anywhere on WGCH.com: April 2018

Friday, April 27, 2018

Coming Up Next: Ms. Wei Zhou of Weibers Consulting, New York City

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Ms. Wei Zhou takes center stage as my next guest on Conversations. She is the president and founder of New York City-based Weiber Consulting.

This Shanghai-born Chinese American founded Weiber Consulting in 2008 after already making her mark as a leader in multicultural public relations and effective integrated marketing.

Zhou holds an MBA in Marketing and International Business from NYU's Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Weiber Consulting is one of New York City's most experienced consulting firms specializing in the Asian market in North America and East Asia. The firm is a one-stop-shop for a full range of services. These include integrated marketing strategies, publicity, social media, branding, event planning, community outreach, strategic partnerships and more. Learn more at Weibers.com.

"Everything Chinese is all the rage these days" on Marvels of China: Pathways to the Pacific Rim. Tune in to 1490 WGCH and WGCH.com anywhere on Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. Eastern USA Time/10:30 p.m. Beijing Time. We'll feature our Confucius Moment, Treasures of China, the Weekly Almanac and more!

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Sunday, April 22, 2018

Coming Up Next: David Cole, PhD & Executive Director: Spirit of Invention: 19th Century U.S. Patent Models of the Hagley Museum and Library in China

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The Hagley Museum and Library in Delaware announced what museum officials call a “path-breaking” exhibition the partnership with Tsinghua University in Beijing and the China Association for Science and Technology.

Spirit of Invention: 19th Century U.S. Patent Models of the Hagley Museum and Library showcases authentic American patent models, stories of American invention and chronicles the development of U.S. patents and intellectual property systems.

The exhibited models from the Hagley Museum and Library represent a broad spectrum of American industries, interest and inventions. The exhibit is scheduled to travel to various cities in China with a projected audience of over one million visitors. This marks the first time an American history museum has exhibited in China.

Joining me on the April 28, 2018 broadcast of Marvels of China: Pathways to the Pacific Rim is executive director David Cole, PhD, where he has been since 2013. Prior to his role at Hagley, Cole was vice president for advancement, communications and public education of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge Massachusetts USA. He designed and directed the public education programs, community partnerships, communication strategy and publications and philanthropic initiatives. Prior to his work at Whitehead Institute, Cole was director of strategic initiatives at the Harvard University Art Museums where he spearheaded community partnerships, launched exhibition projects and played a key role in the capital campaign to renovate and expand the Fogg Museum.

Hagley invites people of all ages to investigate and experience the unfolding history of American business, technology and innovation and its impact on the world from its home at the historic DuPont Powder Works on the banks of Brandywine Creek. Learn more at hagley.org.

As always we will have a regular segments, such as the Confucius Moment, Treasures of China, Chinese Fun Facts, and the Weekly Almanac.

Mark your calendar on April 28 and tune-in to 1490 WGCH/WGCH.com anywhere starting at 10:30 AM Eastern USA time 10:30 PM Beijing time. Our excursion into all-things Chinese never stops! Be part of the journey.

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Sunday, April 15, 2018

Coming Up Next: Sasha Kong, Daughter of Legendary, Trailblazing Chinese Contemporary Artist Kong Bai Ji

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"I felt of the artists I saw, which were many, who had gone to Dunhuang, none captured the spirit of Buddha as well as Kong Bay Ji."
Joan Lebold Cohen, American Contemporary Art Critic

Kong Bai Ji was not just any Chinese artist. Born in Shanghai in 1932, Kong emerged as one of China's trailblazers in the post-Cultural Revolution contemporary art movement.

Go here to his official web site for samples of his works.

When his works were shown in the first North American exhibition of Chinese contemporary art at the University of Southern California's Pacific Asia Museum, Henry Kissinger penned the forward of the exhibition's catalog.

For the past 28 years Kong Bai Ji and his family called Greenwich, Connecticut USA home -and where the show broadcasts from on 1490 WGCH/WGCH.com.

He recently died, and though he no longer walks among us Kong's influence on the Chinese -and American- contemporary art scene is far and wide. His works are displayed in major art museums around the world.

I invite you to join me by tuning in to the April 21, 2018 broadcast of Marvels of China: Pathways to the Pacific Rim. I will be welcoming his daughter Sasha Kong to Conversations for a celebration of a life of a gifted artist she called her father.

Tune in Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 10:30 a.m Eastern USA Time/ 10:30 p.m. Beijing Time for more of our half-hour weekly ongoing celebration of all-things Chinese. Go to 1490 WGCH or anywhere, anytime on WGCH.com, Greenwich, Connecticut USA.

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Saturday, April 7, 2018

Coming Up Next: Rick Quan, Documentary Filmmaker and Dancing Through Life: The Dorothy Toy Story

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There is only one Dorothy Toy. Take my word for it. She is one of the most talented and fascinating dancers in American history -and you are about to find out why.

While overcoming prejudice and challenging odds as Asian Americans in show business they soared to new heights. They didn't just trail blaze for other Asian Americans; they broke the mold for all of us.

Dorothy Toy's story has been told through a documentary, Dancing Through Life: The Dorothy Toy Story by veteran San Francisco Bay Area journalist and documentary filmmaker Rick Quan, who called Dorothy Toy "an Asian American pioneer in entertainment."

Rick Quan will be my guest on Conversations on the Saturday, April 14 broadcast of Marvels of China: Pathways to the Pacific Rim on 1490 WGCH and WGCH.com anywhere via audio-streaming at 10:30 a.m. Eastern USA Time/10:30 p.m. Beijing Time. We'll feature our regular segments, such as the Confucius Moment, Chinese Fun Facts, the Weekly Almanac and more.

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Monday, April 2, 2018

Obituary: Bai Ji Kong

See: https://www.kongbaiji.com

The following obituary was published in the March 30, 2018 edition of the Greenwich Sentinel, Greenwich, Connecticut USA:

Bai Ji Kong, a 28-year Greenwich resident, passed away on March 12.

Born in Shanghai in 1932, he has long been regarded as an important figure in China’s contemporary art movement.

His works are included in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, The National Art Museum of China in Beijing, The Shanghai Art Museum, Harvard University, Lincoln Center in New York, Smith College Museum of Art, The Soyanzi Art Museum in Tokyo, The Peace Museum in Hokkaido, Japan, and the sacred Kinpusenji Temple—The Temple of Golden Peaks—a designated national treasure in Nara, Japan.

He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1986, and, in 1987, Kong’s work was included in the first North American exhibition of contemporary Chinese art after China’s Cultural Revolution, which took place at the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California. Henry Kissinger wrote the forward for the exhibition catalog.

Bai Ji Kong’s work is closely associated with China’s Mogao Caves—located in the ancient Buddhist city of Dunhuang in China’s Gobi Desert. In 1979 Kong made a pilgrimage to this site, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas. He was greatly moved by the delicate and beautiful rock carvings, which span a period of 1,000 years, housed in the numerous caves.

During a 2011 exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania titled “Post-Mao Dreaming: Chinese Contemporary Art”, Joan Lebold Cohen, one of America’s foremost experts on contemporary Chinese art, commented, “I felt of the artists I saw, which were many, who had gone to Dunhuang, none ever captured the spirit of Buddha as well as Kong Bai Ji.”

In 2007, The Art Institute of Chicago acquired an oil-on-rice-paper painting by Kong entitled “It’s Spring Again”. On Nov. 16, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Shanghai’s mayor Han Zheng in front of Kong Bai Ji’s large mural at the Xijiao State Guest House, China’s equivalent of Camp David, in Shanghai. In 2010, Kong’s paintings were on display in a special exhibit in the China Pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai, and, in 2012, China Central Television produced a two-part documentary on Kong that aired globally.

In 2012, The National Art Museum of China, one of Asia’s leading art museums, honored Kong with a solo exhibition showcasing 100 of his paintings. In total, 20 paintings from the show became part of the museum’s permanent collection. The event served as a retrospective of the work that Kong, who turned 80 the month before the exhibition, produced during the prior 60 years of his life.

Kong is survived by his wife of 63 years, Qing Li Feng, his two daughters—Greenwich resident Sasha Kong and Westport resident Xiao Mai Kong—by his brothers Bai Liang Kong and Bai Jun Kong, who reside in China, by his sister Ru Fang Kong, who also resides in China, by his three grandchildren, Bay Hodge, Tallon Hodge and Claudia Chen, by his son-in-law Peter Hodge, of Greenwich, and by his son-in-law Wei Chen, of Westport.

Kong continued painting until the last year of his life. His immense strength and grace, his extraordinary talent, and his passion for life deeply touched the souls of his numerous students, friends and followers throughout China and the West, and will live on in the many wonderful paintings he left behind.