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Chinese Culture Week

Chinese Culture Week, to be
held today through March 10,
will offer a week of events to
improve understanding
between the United States and
China.

Sponsored by the National
Committee on United
States China Relations, the
program will include a lecture
by Gerald Tannebaum, who
returned from China last year
after living there since the early
1940's.

Some of the activities to be
offered during the week
include "The Red Detachment
of Women," a Peking opera, to
be performed today at 8 p.m.
in Newcomb Hall Ballroom,
"Home Sweet Home, Home in
Taipei," a Taiwanese film to be
shown in Wilson Hall
Auditorium tomorrow at 8:30;
and Thursday, Mr. Tannebaum will
lecture on "What Mao Has
Wrought: The impact of the
Cultural 'Revolution upon the
Chinese arts" in the South
Meeting Room of Newcomb
Hall at 8 p.m.

An art exhibit of 200
traditional pieces, ranging from
tapestries to jade carvings will
be shown Thursday, Friday
and Saturday.