Articles by Helen Chang

Matinee by Kehua Pioneer Choir from Shenzhen Successfully Held in Vienna to Celebrate the Year of Dragon 

On 14.02.2024, Kehua Pioneer Choir from Shenzhen held a Matinee at the Chinese Culture and Art Center in Vienna, bringing the audience a cheerful, happy-go-lucky occasion for the Valentine’s Day which is by chance the day for the God of Fortune during the Chinese Spring Festival 2024, the Lunar Dragon Year.  The choir presented a diversified song collection in Chinese, English and German for the audience including “Day Lilies”, “Cold Snap”, “Longing for Spring” (“Sehnsucht nach Frühling” von Mozart), the Yi Ethnic Song “Take Me to the Top of the Mountain”, “By the Butterfly Spring”, “Facial Mask Song” and a…


The Dragon Comes – Happy Chinese New Year!

Happy Chinese New Year! 2024 is the Year of Dragon, the fifth of the 12-year cycle of animals that appear in the Chinese zodiac. The Lunar New Year 2024 begins on 10. February and will last for 15 days until 25. February which is the day of the lantern festival.  Being a fictional animal in the Chinese zodiac, dragon symbolizes power, resilience, and changes. Chinese people respect and fear it. Dragon’s status is so high that no other zodiac animal can compare with it. In the deep psyche of the Chinese people, dragon is a celestial animal that can move…


PASCO’s In-Depth Discussion on GPT-like Artificial Intelligence

Since the release of the application ChatGPT, which is based on the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) model, GPT-like generative artificial intelligence tools have become integrated into various aspects of our lives over the past year. This integration has synergized human intelligence with artificial intelligence, providing numerous conveniences. While benefiting from the advantages these AI tools bring, people are also contemplating and researching the future development of this technology, its impact on individuals and the society, as well as the coexistence of humans with artificial intelligence. (Fig.1:  Daily applications of ChatGPT – by courtesy of Dr. Shiyi Wang) Following the presentation and…



Yimeng Embroidering Art, A Beauty from Shandong 

Linyi City is located at the southeast of Shandong Province. It is the most populous city in Shandong Province, well-known home and abroad for being a city of global water-skiing sport, the logistics capital in China as well as the eco-tourism resort. Traditional handicrafts are also very famous there. Yimeng Embroidering Art, for example, is an intangible cultural heritage of Shandong Province. Ms. XING Aizhi is a known figure as the inheritor of this art.  “This skill was inherited from my mother,” she said. The cross-stitch pattern integrates painting, pruning, embroidery, and brocade. The simple and dignified art form has…


PASCO’s 2023 Annual Meeting Successfully Held in Vienna

Vienna, November 26 2023 – The Professional Association of Chinese Scientists and Technologists in Austria (PASCO) successfully organized its 2023 annual meeting at the Chinese Culture and Art Center in Vienna (Chinesisches Kultur – Und Kunstzentrum Wien). The event was hosted by Ms. Ying Han and Mr. Meng Guo. Ms. Xiao Ke, a diplomat from the Chinese Embassy in Austria, delivered a speech on behalf of the embassy’s Department of Science, Education, and Culture, expressing appreciation for PASCO’s ongoing efforts in promoting scientific and technological exchange between China and Austria. She acknowledged the contributions made by PASCO, and assured continued support from the…


Book Presentation in Vienna with “Es Lebe der Sozialismus“ by Lijia Zhang 

Lijia Zhang worked as a teenager in a factory producing missiles designed to reach North America, queuing every month for the “”period police”” to give evidence that she wasn’t pregnant. In the routine of guarded compounds and political meetings, Zhang’s disillusionment with “The Glorious Cause”” drove her to study English, changing her life and career to finally become a world known journalist and writer which has been her dream all the way through.  Telling a personal story, this memoir is illuminating the sweeping historical forces at work in China after the Cultural Revolution as the country moved from one of…


A Brief Review of the online Forum on EU-US Data Transfer

On 10. July 2023, the European Commission adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Based on this decision, personal data can flow freely from the EU to companies in the United States that participate in the Data Privacy Framework. The adequacy decision followed the adoption of Executive Order on ‘Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities’. These instruments introduced new binding safeguards to address the points raised by Court of Justice of the European Union in its Schrems II decision of July 2020, ensuring that data can be accessed by U.S. intelligence agencies only to the…


Book Recommendation: “The San Francisco Peace Treaty under the UN Charter Concerning the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute”

We are recommending a new publication by the 4-fold Nobel Peace Prize nominee Prof. Dr. Mehmet Sukru Guzel. The book is entitled as “The San Francisco Peace Treaty under the United Nations Charter Concerning the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute”. In his preface, Prof. Dr. Sukru stated that the main purpose of this book is to contribute to world peace and security by trying to find a clear legal answer to the dispute on the sovereignty of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands between China and Japan within the framework of United Nations’ Charter.  “The dispute on the sovereignty of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands has two different…


Online Forum: Data Transfer Decision between EU and US – Is European Data Sufficiently Protected this Time?

Urban Forum and SINOPRESS proudly announce the upcoming online forum on “Data Transfer Decision between EU and US”. An open, insightful, and rewarding discussion with expertise on the topic is guaranteed. Save the date!  Time: 7pm-8.30pm (CET), 07, November 2023 Venue: ZOOM Conference (Meeting ID: 868 3301 7086, Passcode: 074595) Moderator: Marie Grüner, Communication Advisor Agenda: On 10. July 2023, the European Commission adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Based on this decision, personal data can flow freely from the EU to companies in the United States that participate in the Data Privacy Framework. The adequacy decision followed…