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President's Report
ACFS NSW was very honored to be invited to a special dinner
at the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in
Sydney on 19th January. The 30 members who attended,
which included our Patron The Hon.Professor Dame Marie
Bashir and Sir Nicholas Shehadie, enjoyed the superb
hospitality of Consul General H.E. Mr Li Huaxin and Mrs
Zhang Xiujuan The video presentation of the cities of
modern China, the delicious and beautifully presented
dishes, the warm speeches, all made for a wonderful and
memorable experience.
On a sadder note, on 27th January members attended a
Memorial Service for Arthur Locke Chang, one of our ACFS
founding members, at the Trades Hall Auditorium. Tributes
by his son Douglas and me are printed elsewhere in this
Bulletin.
On 5th February members attended a Memorial Service for
Paul Ward at the Law School, University of Sydney. The
ceremony was recorded and we hope to make it available to
those friends who were not able to attend.
There were so many events in February celebrating Chinese
New Year which enthralled us including the following:
..….the Chinese Consulate reception
…… the CHAA talk by Marilyn Sue Dooley on 'the Yin and
Yang of the Monkey' at the Museum of Sydney
…… the spectacular Shaanxi Folk Dance Performance CNY
2016 at the Sydney Town Hall
……the Chinese Chamber Music Ensemble at the Chinese
Garden of Friendship
……the Central Coast Chinese Association and Madam Wu
Gosford Chinese Performing Arts concert
……the Lantern Walk with spectacular giant lanterns
representing the 12 signs of the lunar zodiac illuminating our
city's iconic locations
Our best wishes to all members for a happy, healthy and fun
Year of the Monkey.
Margaret Yung Kelly
Canberra Bus Trip
Bus trip organised by Chinese Women’s Association.
The National Library of Australia in Canberra in partnership
with the National Library of China in Beijing is holding an
Exhibition on the Celestial Empire: Life in China 1644-1911. It
is a presentation of an extraordinary array of illustrated
texts, popular and official, from the Qing dynasty, the last to
rule China. This will be a memorable occasion.
On arrival at the National Library we will enjoy an Asian
inspired 2 course lunch at Bookplate Café at 12 noon. Tours
of the Exhibition start at 2pm and 2.30pm (20 per group),
each with their own Tour Guide. Length of Tour approx. 45
minutes.
Date: Saturday 9 April
Cost: $83 (includes coach and lunch)
Depart: Central Station 7.45am (outside western concourse
Platform 1 Country Link Terminal)
OR Strathfield Station 8.15am (Everton Road)
Please be at pickup points at least 10 minutes prior to
departure. Return to Sydney around 8pm
Contact Margaret Kelly 9810 4298 to book your place
Donations
Many thanks to P & M J Wong, DH Robertson, Laurel Dyson,
EL Duron, for your kind donations.
Thank you also to all who donated in memory of Paul Ward,
especially to Yvonne Koo for her generous donation.
ACFS Committee
Members and friends
at a special function
held by the Consul
General to celebrate
the long-standing
friendship between
the ACFS and the
peoples of China.
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Dates for your Diary:
ACFS Regular Activities
Qigong: Every Wednesday, 10am, Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney, exercise class $15. Call Miranda
Ho on 0402 918 383
Mandarin: Every Tuesday. General Language class 10.30am-12noon in our ACFS Rooms, $17. Contact Mark Seeto, ph. 0417
691 988 or email: [email protected]
Tribute to Arthur Locke Chang
I am very privileged and honored to be here today to
remember and celebrate Arthur Locke Chang. He was an
ordinary man with a great love of China and a great vision.
Arthur was a founding member of Australia-China
Friendship Society NSW in the early 1950s. Our Society is a
not-for-profit organization, run entirely by volunteers, and
our aims to promote friendship and understanding
between the peoples of Australia and China. If it were not
for Arthur and his fellow members, we would not be
celebrating our 64th Anniversary this year.
I remember Arthur telling me he first met me when I was
only a teenager - so many, many decades ago - and his
recounting experiences with my parents Luther and Alice
Yung. My father, Luther Yung, was an early President of
ACFS in the 1950s/1960s
Arthur was very active in ACFS and gave a very interesting
talk on the history of the Society at one of our meetings.
His anecdotes about ACFS members introducing eucalyptus
trees and wheat strains to China were most insightful and it
was great to learn some of our early oral history. Until
some years ago, he regularly attended our monthly
meetings and special functions.
We were so proud to see him at the City Recital Hall
recently, receiving his special award from the Government
of the People's Republic of China, for his lifelong work
helping the Chinese people in China and here in Australia. It
is lovely to see Consul-General Mr Li Huaxin here today
because he was the one who presented the award to
Arthur.
We in ACFS thank you, Arthur Locke Chang, for your loyalty
and dedication, and we promise to carry on your vision and
contribute to the friendly relationship between Australia
and China.
Margaret Yung Kelly, President, ACFS NSW. 27/1/2016
AALITRA Translation Prize Entry Invitation
Sponsored by China Cultural Centre in Sydney, the Australia
Association for Literature Translation (AALITRA) has now
opened entries for the AALITRA Translation Prize. This
year's focus language is Chinese, with prose test for
translation by A Yi (
) and poetry text by Rong Rong (
). Entries close on 13 May 2016 (Friday)
For more information and translation materials, please visit
the AALITRA website.
荣
阿乙
荣
Stories of Life
Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition
Date: 5 Feb - 2 Apr 2016
Venue: Artspace Gallery, Adelaide Festival Centre
Entry: Free
China Cultural Centre in Sydney signed a historic agreement
with the Adelaide Festival Centre. Through this agreement,
the Centres plan to continue bringing more high quality
Chinese performances and visual art displays to Adelaide.
The agreement was signed at the opening of “Stories of
Life”, one of the China Cultural Centre in Sydney’s Happy
New Year series events. “Stories of Life” is an Australian
premiere exhibition of Chinese contemporary artwork by
13 China’s most excellent artists.
Traditional Chinese Ink Painting Class for Beginners
Date & Time: 10:30am-12:30pm,Saturdays
5 Mar - 21 May (except 26 Mar, 30 Apr) 10 sessions
Venue: China Cultural Centre in Sydney
This course is for students with minimum experience, allowi
ng them to learn how to handle the Chinese painting brush
with ink and colour,to execute brush strokes professionally
and to develop skills to draw different subject.
Ink Remix: Contemporary Art From Mainland China &
Hong Kong
Contemporary ink art has emerged as one of the most
significant and ubiquitous artistic trends in mainland China,
Taiwan and Hong Kong, and over the past decade has
attracted increasing attention from the media and the
international art community. Acclaimed as ‘the new
Chinese art’, some of the world’s most prominent museums
and galleries, including New York’s Metropolitan Museum
of Art and the Saatchi Gallery in London, have staged major
survey exhibitions of ink art.
In a diverse range of 35 works by 14 artists, the exhibition
reveals the ongoing centrality of ink in contemporary
Chinese art. Curated by renowned contemporary Chinese
art scholar Dr Sophie McIntyre and presented in
partnership with the Canberra Museum and Gallery, the
exhibition includes video and installation works by highprofile artists including Charwei Tsai (
), Peng Hungchih (
) and Qui Zhijie (
).
彭泓智
邱志杰
蔡佳葳
OPENING: Thurs, 3 March, 6-8pm
WHERE: UNSW Galleries, cnr Oxford & Greens Rd,
PADDINGTON
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Remembering Arthur Lock Chang
Tribute to his father by Douglas Chang
Distinguished guests - Consul Generals from the People’s
Republic of China, and the Republic of Indonesia; and my
father’s dear comrades and friends,
On behalf of my mother Anne, sister Louise and members
of the Chang family, I offer our sincere gratitude to you all
for attending this memorial service today, to honour the
life-long work of my father.
On behalf of my mother Anne, sister Louise and members
of the Chang family, I offer our sincere gratitude to you all
for attending this memorial service today, to honour the
life-long work of my father.
It is indeed fitting that a memorial service for my father be
held in this location. The Sydney Trades Hall building is
where he spent countless hours for the various causes he
passionately fought for. It is also in the heart of Chinatown,
his spiritual as well as physical home for many years.
Indeed I only discovered two days ago that a photo of my
father and his early comrades is inside the foyer of this very
building. The Trades Hall is very close to both the current
and old clubhouses of the Chinese Youth League, an
organisation he was proudly associated with for nearly 75
of his 94 years.
It is the Chinese Youth League that always held the most
special place in my father’s heart – as a member, he fought
some of his most difficult battles against the White
Australia Policy and gaining equal treatment for Chinese in
Australia.
It was also where he had many of his finest and proudest
moments, such as 1 October 1949; the first table tennis
delegation from China to Australia and the opening of
diplomatic relations between the two countries in the early
1970s.
Therefore, it is with the deepest gratitude that the family
thank the CYL for organising this memorial today.
In particular, we acknowledge the tireless work of Mr Ching
Tan, the other members of the organising committee and
volunteers who have spent many hours preparing for today
and were highly dedicated to honouring the memory of my
father. This has allowed us, the family, the privacy to mourn
to loss in our own way in our private service last Friday.
The speakers before me have no doubt described my
father’s contribution and achievements far better than a
son could hope to do. They have given the Chang family a
great honour, and I thank each and every speaker for their
time, effort and heartfelt expressions in today’s service.
In any description of my fathers’ life’s work, his highly
developed sense of duty would come to the fore.
While he did not expect the same of others, when he did
meet men of similar heart and mind – men such as Fred
Wong (Wong Gar Kin) and Uncle Billy Liu (Lowe Gong Fook)
– he embraced them as his cherished mentors and closest
comrades.
When I was very young, I thought Fred and Uncle Billy were
Gods such was the way my father spoke of them – Fred
passed long before I was born - while it took me a few years
to realise that the small white haired man who smoked a
lot and wore the flat cloth cap in our lounge room was the
same Uncle Billy that my father spoke about in the highest
manner.
Such great men of the Sydney Chinese Community however
did not develop my father’s sense of duty. Rather it appears
to me to have been deep within him, long before he came
to Sydney in 1941.
I was reminded of this, in a letter I found a few days ago
that he wrote in 1940, at the age of 19 to the Chinese
Consul in Melbourne.
He said :
“my new home can never take the place of my beloved
native land – China. I will always love China and her people.
I was taught that way ever since I was a boy that China was
my country and that the responsibility of improving China
rested upon our shoulders – the young people of China, the
heirs and heiresses of the Yellow Emperor (Huan Yin)”
I’m sure the current Consul, Mr Li would also be impressed
if he received such an email from a young overseas Chinese
student today.
My father was not one to heavily force his opinions on
others. Rather, like his revered hero, Premier Zhou En Lai,
he sought to persuade through diplomacy and through the
example that devotion to his people and community could
inspire in others.
Like Premier Zhou is revered as the beloved father of
Modern China, the many messages of condolence these
last few days have reminded me that many people think of
my father as the beloved Uncle of the Chinese in Sydney.
I thank you for such heartfelt sentiments in your messages
of condolence and support. Again, on behalf of the Chang
family, I thank you for helping farewell my father in a
manner he would truly have appreciated and enjoyed.
We hope to also thank you by leaving you with a verse my
mother found in the Book of Tao my father was reading the
night before he passed. To me, it describes the essence of
my father and why he did the things we are honouring him
for today.
It is a verse that I know will always help remind me of my
father’s lasting legacy to his family and community.
The Three Treasures in the Book of Tao:
“I have Three Treasures, which I hold fast and watch over
closely. The first is Mercy. The second is Frugality. The third
is not Daring to be the first in the World. Because I am
merciful, therefore I can be brave. Because I am frugal,
therefore I can be generous. Because I dare not be first,
therefore I can be the chief of all vessels.”
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A
LETTER
FROM
…
NORTH EASTERN
CHINA
Pete Bannister, 14 February 2016
As a younger man I listened to Alistair Cook's “Letter From
America”, re broadcast each weekend on the ABC, and I
thought I'd offer a pale imitation by describing my own
response to the most vivid impression that I took away with
me from the ACFS Ice and Snow Trip to China in January
this year - for those who had had second thoughts, and
hadn't joined our wonderful excursion.
It wasn't the Qing Dynasty Forbidden City palace museum
in Shenyang, though that was impressive, nor the
intricately restored 1930's Prison Palace of the last Chinese
emperor Puyi, the puppet ruler of the Japanese state of
Manchukuo, not the very high class accommodation we
enjoyed in each of the cities to which we travelled, each
more luxurious than the last, not the close up viewing of a
huge population of captive Siberian Tigers (from a safe
distance) in their special park - nor even the dazzling
“after dark” exhibitions of gigantic, colourful ice sculptures
at not one but TWO separate venues, one night after the
other.
Photo of the 918 Museum Entrance Forecourt
For me, the most significant, the most moving and the most
memorable things that I saw were at the dark, solemn site
of the 918 Museum, in Shenyang - and I'd never even heard
of the Museum before. We didn't join the tour to see it,
especially. It wasn't even on our personal list of things to
see.
Its tiny doorway led to a series of subterranean chambers
reminiscent of the mines that were a major reason for the
Japanese expedition to conquer North Eastern China in the
first place. Some of the very modern artwork within was
as sublime, as the documentary and photo displays of 80
years ago, were agonising.
Pictures I took hardly convey its reminder of the times and
the awful events, or the importance of the Museum's true,
modern message, which we took to be – that, without a
shared recognition by each nation, Japan and China
together, of the necessity of accepting Responsibility for
those terrible past events, and (paired with a desire for)
being open to Reconciliation, a future loss of Peace,
broadly defined, could just as easily recur.
918 Museum Peace and Remembrance Bell
________________________________________________________________________________________________
YAO Jui-chung, Yao's
Journey to Australia,
2015, biro, oil pen with
gold leaf on Indian
handmade paper,
200x546x6cm.
Courtesy of the artist
and Tina Keng Gallery.
Ink Remix: Contemporary Art From Mainland
China & Hong Kong at UNSW Galleries, cnr
Oxford & Greens Roads, Paddington.
Opening 3 March 6-8pm
The ACFS Bulletin is
kindly sponsored by:
Ph: 1300 764 224; email: [email protected]
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ACFS social activities
Above and left – at the Chinese Consulate in
Sydney for a special dinner with our Patron
The Hon Professor Dame Marie Bashir and Sir
Nicholas Shehadie where we enjoyed the
superb hospitality of Consul General H.E. Mr Li
Huaxin and Mrs Zhang Xiujuan
Above: at the Shanxi Performance at Town Hall with the Monkey King!
Below: at Gosford with Bernard & Amelia Tan for the Central Coast
Chinese Association CNY Celebration.
Margaret Kelly, Peng Tow and Lesley Heath representing ACFS with HE
Mr Li Huaxin and Mrs Zhang Xiujuan at the Consulate for CNY
celebration with Chinese community organisations.
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The Mother of Modern China
By Clarissa Sebag Montefiore 23 December 2015
“Once upon a time in distant China, there were three
sisters,” opens the 1997 historical drama The Soong
Sisters. “One loved money, one loved power and one
loved her country.”
Directed by Hong Kong film-maker Mabel Cheung, The
Soong Sisters tracks the lives of three real-life siblings,
powerful women who lived through – and largely
influenced – major upheavals in China in the last century.
Soong Ailing – the lover of money – married Kung Hsianghsi, a director of the Bank of China. Soong Meiling – the
lover of power – married Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the
Kuomintang or Nationalist Party. And Soong Qingling – the
lover of the Chinese nation – married the revolutionary
Sun Yat-sen, founding father of the Republic of China.
Together Ailing, Meiling, and Qingling represent China’s
major ideological forces: capitalism, nationalism and
communism, respectively. But of the three sisters, it
is Soong Qingling (depicted in the movie by the iconic
actress Maggie Cheung) who captured the public’s
imagination, becoming in the process a political It Girl,
national treasure and historical heroine.
The “mother of modern China”, as she is known, wed Sun
Yat-sen in
1915, the man
heralded with
over-throwing
the feudalistic,
old-fashioned
and elitist
Manchu
dynasty just
four years earlier. As a widow, following her husband’s
death from liver disease a decade later in 1925, Madame
Sun Yat-sen became an important champion for Mao
Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party.
To some Soong was China’s ‘conscience’, having broken
ties with the Nationalist Party that her husband had
founded, proclaiming it had strayed from his original ideals
and intentions. To others, she was a politically naive traitor
and ‘bird in a lacquered cage’, who was used and exploited
by the Communists as a crucial link to the past and a route
to legitimacy.
One thing is certain. As author Israel Epstein, a friend of
Soong’s, once stated “Soong Qingling personifies modern
China… (she) personally participated in all stages of the
Chinese revolution.”
In his 1993 biography Woman in World History: Soong
Qingling, Epstein describes her as possessing a rare
“internationalist and bicultural thinking” combined with
patriotism. The latter was her “strong and eternal root…
not only reflected in her political stance and actions but
also suffused her entire mind and body.”
The daughter of a bible salesman and missionary, Soong
was born in 1893 in Shanghai. Charlie Soong, her father,
had spent years in the USA being trained as a missionary
before returning to spread Christianity. In 1890 he started
a Shanghai publishing house, printing cheap bibles in
colloquial Chinese - and became rich. His business empire
soon expanded to include food and textiles.
As the second eldest of six children, Soong was educated,
like her siblings, in both China and the US. Fluent in
English, she attended Wesleyan College in Georgia and
took up the Christian name Rosamond. When the Republic
of China was proclaimed, ending more than 2,000 years of
imperial rule, Soong was still at school in the States. As her
friends watched, she took down the emperor’s banner
from the walls of her room; in its place went Sun Yatsen’s
flag of the Republic.
Education abroad had its impact: above all, Soong was a
champion of women. Finding arranged marriages
abhorrent (they would later be banned by Mao in the
1950s) she was adamant that she must marry a man of her
own choice. Moving back to Asia, she became Sun Yatsen’s
secretary. When she announced she would also become
his wife her parents were appalled. Not only was Sun
nearly three decades her senior, he already had a wife and
three children. By taking up the mantle of “second wife”
Soong's match would be at odds with the family’s Christian
values.
Showing the
determination,
stubbornness
and will that
would define
her long life,
Soong ignored
their concerns and married Sun in 1915. Although younger,
richer, and at times offended by his lack of cleanliness,
Soong became a much-loved companion and confidant to
Sun, a revolutionary born into a peasant family. In an era
when many respectable Chinese women were still kept
behind shuttered doors, she also became a highly visible
political figure. In her biography Madame Sun Yatsen, Jung
Chang and Jon Halliday state that Soong became the
earliest example in the world of a woman behaving like a
“First Lady”.
In early 1920, Soong’s initiatives included conducting
studies of the squalid conditions of female factory
workers, the founding of women’s clubs and heading up
the Women’s Institute of Political Training. As well as
providing a refuge for women fleeing arranged marriages,
the Institute promoted the idea that women, like men,
were equal benefactors of China’s political future and
must be educated as such. Chinese women, she wrote
later, must be unshackled from the three traditional
obediences: to their fathers, their husbands, their sons.
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But while Soong campaigned strongly in women’s rights,
she also believed that they must come under a
transformation of society as a whole, stating in 1942:
“From the very start, our women fought not under the
banner of a Western feminism but as part and parcel of
the democratic whole.”
One reflection of social reform was dress. In feudal China
men wore their heads shaved, with a long plait, or queue,
draped down their backs, as a physical incarnation of
their humility. Sun Yatsen, however, popularised a
modern new suit, a mixture of traditional Chinese and
Western dress, known as the Sun-Yatsen – and later the
Mao - suit. Soong, likewise, shifted between European
and Chinese styles, showcasing a new, forward-thinking
China, one that could hold its head up high to the West.
With power, however, came costs. Forced to flee a
military coup in 1922, Soong miscarried her baby with
Sun (later in life she adopted two daughters). The Soong
family also suffered a vast split: during the Chinese Civil
War, the Communist-sympathising Qingling became
estranged from her sister Meiling, wife of the enemy
Chiang Kai-Shek.
In 1927 – the same year of Meiling’s wedding – Chiang
Kai-Shek led a brutal massacre of Communists across the
country. Although Chiang had once been a close ally to
Sun Yatsen, and had taken over as the leader of the
Republic after his passing, Soong was horrified. She
condemned the attacks, turned her back on the
Nationalists, and led an incessant political campaign
against her brother-in-law.
Soong’s sister Meiling – known for her beauty and sex
appeal – had different ideas about how China should be
shaped. In 1934 Meiling, alongside her husband, launched
the New Life Movement, which sought to stop the spread
of communism by harking back to traditional Chinese
values. According to the Encyclopedia of Women Social
Reformers, Meiling adopted “a convent-ional attitude
toward women’s emancipation as a moral crusade
confined to emphasising traditional virtues of modesty,
chastity, domesticity”. Qingling, by contrast, saw
“precisely these traditional patriarchal attitudes as being
at the root of the continuing subjection of Chinese
women, even into the communist era.”
She involved
herself in the
Chinese war effort
against the
Japanese and
hosted a radio
show called The
Voice of China
Meiling, however, successfully won over the American
public, becoming only the second woman to address a joint
session of Congress. There she asked for support in the SinoJapanese war, leading to her inclusion in a list of the 10
most admired women in the US.
It was during World War Two that the sisters were briefly
reunited – running field hospitals and literary campaigns
together – as the Nationalists and Communists dropped
their differences to fight against a common enemy, the
Japanese. Following Mao Zedong’s victory in 1949, however,
Meiling fled with her husband to Taiwan where he set up a
new government. The sisters were estranged for good.
The three Soong
sisters, though
divided by
politics, were
united during
World War Two
In 1938, following the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War,
Soong founded the China Defense League, later renamed
the Chinese Welfare Institute, with the aim of funding
children’s well-being and health, particularly in Communist
controlled areas. When the Communists emerged
triumphant in 1949, establishing the People’s Republic of
China, Soong was rewarded for her loyalty with the role of
vice chair in the newly formed nation.
Other accolades followed. In 1951 Soong was awarded the
Stalin Peace Prize. In 1959, in a largely symbolic role, she
became one of just two deputy chairmen of the Chinese
Communist Party, under Mao Zedong. Just as Meiling
courted the States from Taiwan, Soong Qingling also sought
to shape the West’s perception of China. In 1952 she
founded the magazine China Reconstructions (now China
Today), with news of her homeland in English, as well as
other languages. A collection of her writings was published
in the 1950s under the apt title, Struggle for New China.
When Soong died in 1981 aged 90, the Chinese government
lauded her as “a great patriotic, democratic, internationalist
and Communist fighter and outstanding state leader of
China.” Just weeks before she was granted the title of
Honorary Chairman of the PRC and, for the first time,
became a member of the Communist Party.
In death, as in life, Meiling took a different path. While
Qingling had suffered and been publicly criticised during
the brutal 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, Madame Chiang
Kai-shek was widowed in 1975. She moved to New York
where she lived in relative seclusion in a plush Manhattan
apartment, before passing away aged 105 in 2003. At
news of her death George W Bush commended her
“intelligence” and “strength of character”, calling her a
close friend of the US.
For Qingling, it was China, not the States, who sung
praises. After her death three days of national mourning
were announced in China, a state funeral was staged and
flags were lowered at Chinese embassies across the
world. As Frommers aptly writes in a guide to one of
Soong’s former residences in Beijing, this is a woman
who “is as close as you'll get to a modern Chinese
Communist saint.
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Australia China Friendship Society
澳 中 友 好 協 会
NSW INC.
Invites you to join our ACFS- Spirit of the Long March to experience the historical route of military retreat from SouthNorth into West undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China; the 14 nights/15days tour takes from
Guangzhou then to Jinggangshan-Jiujiang-Lushan-Nanchang-Changsha Shaoshan-Ningxiang-Yueyang-Xi’anYan’an, Guangzhou.
We have been able to obtain for members and friends this specially priced tour, organised by
CHINA TRAVEL SERVICE (AUST.) PTY. LTD. (Licence No. 2TA001849)
The tour will depart from Sydney on 12 October 2016 and arrive back in Sydney on 26 October 2016. Please
complete the attached booking form and return to Ms Amy Rae, China Travel Service (Aust) Pty. Ltd Sydney
Office, Level 1, Suite 3 -7, 650 George Street, Sydney 2000 as soon as possible to secure your place on
this fabulous tour.
Please make cheque deposit of $350.00 payable to CHINA TRAVEL SERVICE
The balance of the tour costs is payable by 20 August 2016 and a meeting of tour members will be held about two
weeks prior to departure. Travel Insurance is essential. CTS (Amy Rae Tel: 02 9372 0081) can arrange it at special
minimal cost or you can make your own arrangement.
Book as soon as possible
DON’T MISS OUT!!
Tour Leader is ACFS committee member Ms Miranda Ho (Budiman)
Tel: 0402 918 383
Email: [email protected]
Tour Inclusions:
Tour Exclusions:
*Twin share room at 4 star hotels
*Fully inclusive tour with breakfast, lunches and & dinners
*Transfers, tours including admission fees
*All airfares with airport taxes and fuel surcharges
*Chinese Visa Fee
* Fully escorted tour by local English speaking guides
*Tipping
*Travel bag
*Travel Insurance
*Personal expenses
Tour Cost: $4750 per person on twin share basis
Land only cost: $4450pp (From/Ends: Guangzhou)
Single Room Supplement: $850
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Spirit of the Long March Tour
15 Days
Guangzhou-Jinggangshan-Jiujiang-Lushan-Nanchang-Changsha
Shaoshan-Ningxiang-Yueyang-Xi’an-Yan’an
12 October, Day1 Sydney-Guangzhou
Take an overnight flight from Sydney to Guangzhou on China Southern Airlines CZ302 at 2215 to Guangzhou.
13 October, Day2 Guangzhou-Jinggangshan (L/D)
Upon arrive in Guangzhou at 0500, you will need to clear the airport formalities and connect to CZ3945 at 0845 to
Jinggangshan, Jingganshan is a country level city in Jiangxi province known as the birthplace of the People’s
Liberation Army, and the "cradle of the Chinese revolution". After lunch, transfer to hotel for some rest then visit
the Revolution Museum in the afternoon.
Hotel: Jinyuan Hotel or similar
14 October, Day3 Jinggangshan (B/L/D)
This morning, we will visit the Huangyangjie Post,
Baizhuyuan Garden, and the relic of Mint, Red Army
Hospital, and Rainbow Falls. You can also take a
view of Wuzhi Mountain from there. Afterwards,
transfer to your hotel.
Hotel: Jinyuan Hotel or similar
15 October, Day4 Jinggangshan-Jiujiang (B/L/D)
Today, we will continue our visit in Jinggangshan,
the Beishan Martyrs Cemetery and Ciping Red Army
Camp- Mao Zedong's former residence. After our
visit to the Yicuihu Garden, we will take a train ride
to Jiujiang.
Hotel: Shanshui Hotel or similar
16 October, Day5 Jiujiang-Lushan (B/L/D)
This morning, we will take the coach to Lushan (approx. 3 hours). We will visit the popular attractions in Mount Lu
such as the Huajing Garden, Jingxiu Valley, the Immortal Caverns, Meilu Outhouse and so forth.
Hotel: Lushan Hotel or similar
17 October, Day6 Lushan-Nanchang (B/L/D)
In the morning, visit Sanbaoshu scenic area and
Lushan Museum. Then coach to Nanchang (approx.
2 hours).
Hotel: Qixing Business Hotel or similar
18 October, Day7 Nanchang-Changsha (B/L/D)
In the morning, visit the Site-Memorial of the
August 1 Nanchang Uprising and Jiangxi Province
Museum. Then take high-speed train to Changsha.
Hotel: Xinwei Huatian Hotel or similar
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19 October, Day8 Changsha-Shaoshan - Ningxiang-Changsha
In the morning, coach to Shaoshan, which is the hometown of
Chairman Mao. Visit Chairman Mao’s Former Residence, Bronze
statue of Mao Zedong, the Library and Mao Zedong Memorial
Museum. Move on to Ningxiang. Visit Liu Shaoqi Former
Residence Huangminglou. Afterwards, return to Changsha
by.coach.
Hotel: Xinwei Huatian Hotel
20 October, Day9 Changsha- Yueyang-Changsha (B/L/D)
This morning, coach to Yueyang. Visit the Dongting Lake and
Yueyang Pagoda. Move on to Liuyang and visit the Former
Residence of Hu Yaobang. If time permits, explore the
Huangxinglu Walk Street on your leisure.
Hotel: Xinwei Huatian Hotel
21 October, Day10 Changsha (B/L/D)
This morning, coach to Yuelu Mountain. Visit Yuelu Academy, Juzizhoutou, Statue of Youth Mao Zedong, Pozi
Street and Snack Street where you can try some Hunan cuisine
Hotel: Xinwei Huatian Hotel or similar
22 October, Day11 Changsha-Xi’an-Yan’an (B/L/D)
In the morning, take an early flight CZ3721 at 0810 to Xi’an. Xi’an is considered as a Shrine of Chinese Revolution. It
became the center of the Chinese Communist revolution from 1936 to 1948. We will visit the Xuanyuan Temple
then continue our journey to Yan’an, where the Chinese communists celebrated as the birthplace of the
revolution.
Hotel: Yan’an Yinhai Hotel or similar
23 October, Day12 Yan’an-Xi’an (BLD)
Visit Yan’an Revolution Museum, Zaoyuan Revolution
Relics, and Yangjialing Revolution Relics. Move on to
Nanniwan. The Eighth Route of Red Army carried out
the famous Production Campaign. Then coach back to
Xi’an. Enjoy a Tang Dynasty Show after dinner.
Hotel: Grand New World Hotel or similar
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24 October, Day13 Xi’an- Guangzhou (B/L/D)
Today’s tour highlight is to visit the greatest
archaeological discovery of the last century, where
the Terracotta Warriors were interred with the
Emperor Qin Shi Huang more than 2000 years ago. Included are the Circle Vision Movie and Bronze Chariot. Later,
visit the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum; follow by the Xi’an Art Ceramic and Lacquer Ware Factory then
transfer to airport for flight CZ3212 at 1735 to Guangzhou.
Hotel: Landmark Hotel or similar
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25 October, Day14 Guangzhou-Sydney B/L
In the morning, visit Zhongshan Memorial Hall, Xiguan (Westside Mansion of Guangzhou) where you can find the
big old houses which belonged to rich businessmen of Guangzhou in the past. Continue our visit to Zhujiang New
City. After enjoy a nice Yumcha lunch, you will have some free time for last minute shopping before being
transferred to the Guangzhou airport for your flight CZ325 at 2105 to Sydney.
Overnight flight 26 October, Day15 Sydney. Morning arrive in Sydney at 09:05am.
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