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And so it goes, on and on. All from a news report that blamed state officials — not Obama — for spending taxpayer money on Chinese firms to build U.S. bridges. – Eugene Kiely

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这篇文本翻译需要重点传播的信息是什么？这间中文学校传播中国语言文化的策略和特色是什么？

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Kwong Kow Chinese School “Bridging China and the World”

Posted by Kane Carpenter on Tuesday, September 13, 2011

With the mission to disseminate Chinese language and culture to Chinese and non-Chinese learners, Boston Chinatown‘s Kwong Kow Chinese School (KKCS) combines fun with a healthy appetite for academic excellence. Pairing a heritage of more than 90 years with a constant influx of Chinese immigrants into the Chinatown area, KKCS is kept busy year round – but never more so than during the summer.

This summer, enrollment at KKCS peaked at 286 students – with ages ranging from kindergarten to those looking to embark on a college career in the near future. ―Our capacity is 216, actually,‖ said Interim Principal Evonne Liu. ―So we‘re always trying to press down our enrollment.‖

Offering summer classes that include kung fu, cooking, abacus, and field trips to the Museum of Science (not forgetting the miniature Olympic Games that happens in-house and includes an opening torch-bearing ceremony and closing ceremony), who can blame the children for wanted to get into KKCS?

―At the end of the day many of the kids don‘t want to leave,‖ said Liu. ―When their parents come to pick them up, the kids will say, ?You‘re not on time‘, because they want to keep playing in their afterschool activities.‖

Founded in 1916 by the Chinese Merchants Association (the On Leong Merchants Association) to establish an educational institution to help maintain Chinese heritage among overseas Chinese,

KKCS is the oldest one of its kind in Boston and one of the longest-running Chinese schools on the East Coast.

The school became a nonprofit institution in 1981 in order to ensure the sustainability of the school as a community resource. Having provided Chinese language and cultural education, academic support, and recreational programs for more than 20,000 children of Chinese immigrants in the Greater Boston/ Eastern Massachusetts region, the KKCS has a pedigree few can boast of. The key, one might ask?

―We try to combine a cultural education with academic excellence, and we try to make things fun for the students, too,‖ said Liu.

But, according to Liu, fun and games are not the priority.

As one of the only Chinese-language schools to possess a computer lab, as well as one of the only schools in the region to offer free Young Learner‘s Chinese (YCT) test tutoring, KKCS demands academic achievement.

―A few of our students have already complete level three [of four on the YCT test score scale], so we‘re figuring out how to get our kids up to level four,‖ said Liu.

Growing up in Guangzhou, and majoring in ―many things,‖ as she would say, Principal Liu has knack with children. Walking past each of the country-theme classrooms in KKCS‘ four-year-old, 16,892 square feet building at 87 Tyler Street, Liu was approached and waved to by numerous children clad in red school shirts.

―I‘ve always had a passion for teaching,‖ said Liu. ―Ever since I was in school I wanted to learn and teach.‖

Despite being a Chinese school, classes are taught in a variety of different languages to suit the needs of the class and the students. Interestingly, students at KKCS do not only come from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines, but also native students of Chinese American background, adopted children from China, and students from White, Black, and Hispanic family backgrounds have a place at the school.

An establishment that offers ―quality out-of-school activities‖ to all ages, including Fun Fun Mandarin, and Mandarin classes for adults, the KKCS‘ corridor walls are lined with photos of smiling children and adults – learning and performing activities not only meant to be special and meaningful to those, specifically, of the Chinese community, but for those who want to learn and excel on their own paths, too.

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