Hidden treasures: The First Chinese − a Walk in Queanbeyan Sunday 19 September 2021 Tour information The tour will cover the fascinating story of one of this area’s earliest migrant populations, and visit some associated heritage sites. Access to skilled and reliable labour was a problem in early New South Wales, and particularly so after convict transportation […]
Professor Chey is one of Australia’s preeminent Sinologists. In a remarkable career, she moved seamlessly back and forth between academia, the public service, and the private sector. The title of her talk is “Both sides of the wall: stories from a lifetime’s engagement with China.” She will describe studying Chinese in 1950s Sydney and her […]
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Cancelled due to Covid
The AGM is on 15 March at 7pm at Golden King in Woden
ACFS Film Night At 7.30pm on Wednesday 27 April 2022 the Australia China Friendship Society (www.acfs.org.au) will screen the 2016 drama “Someone to talk to” in the Catchpoles Room, Southern Cross Club Jamison. The film examines loneliness and alienation in contemporary Chinese society and our desire/need to find a soulmate. The dialogue is in Mandarin […]
Chinese Heritage Walk The Chinese Heritage walk in Queanbeyan, scheduled for last September, will be held on Sunday 5 June. The walk will be in the morning, followed by lunch (details of lunch later). The walk will be a roughly 2 hour mostly urban walk of about 3.5km, with some hilly parts and unpaved sections in a cemetery […]