Please come and join us on January 27, 2018.  Click here for ticket and activities information of 2018 KCCAA Chinese New Year activities.…

You may purchase the tickets directly from http://www.ticketmaster.com or Onsite at Music Hall Box Office (301 W 1th St, Kansas City, MO 64105). 

晚会的票可以从网上直接购买: http://www.ticketmaster.com 或去Music Hall Box Office (301 W 1th St, Kansas City, MO 64105) 直接购买.

For more information of the show and ticket sale, please visit the following documents

cultures-of-china-festival-of-spring.pdf

Bulk purchase of tickets

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Member discount at our yearly Visa / Passport Event hosted by KCCAA and the China Consulate-General Office in Chicago.

Member Discount tickets for New Year Celebration and other year-round performances

7% discount with cash purchase at 888 International Market (Cash only. Minimum $10 purchase excluding tax required. Not valid with any other offer.)

$5 discount for each international ticket at Gateway Travel (六福旅行社，913-383-8880）

5% discount at New Peking Restaurant (not valid with any other offer)

FREE or discounted entry to all KCCAA activities.

Discounted processing fee for annual passport and visa event

FREE posting non-commercial messages (such as moving sale, looking for baby-sitter etc.) to Yahoo Group Mailing List maintained by KCCAA while a non-member will have to pay $15 each time. For commercial messages (revenue generated or advertisement), a member only pay $15 (waived if sponsored any of the above events) while a non-member will have to pay $30 each time.…

Dr. E. Grey Dimond, founder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Medicine passed away November 3, 2013. His life was devoted to the practice of medicine, to medical education and, for the latter half of his life, to promoting friendship between his country and China.

He was a very early president, 1961-1962, of the American College of Cardiology and, at his death, the oldest surviving president.

During his military service in Japan, Dimond was sent to Shanghai to examine Americans who had been imprisoned there by the Japanese. From that experience, he made himself knowledgeable about China. In 1971, his friend, journalist Edgar Snow, arranged for Dimond and his teacher, Paul Dudley White, to visit China. The two men were the first American physicians in China in twenty-two years. Dimond made the re-establishment of friendly relations between the two countries a prime duty. In his life, he made forty trips to Asia, hosted numerous American groups on visits to China, brought many students from China to UMKC, and, capping all this, he and his wife adopted a Chinese daughter in 1980.

The prominent international correspondent for the New York Times, Harrison Salisbury, wrote in 1988, 'Grey Dimond's energy, imagination and dedication to public and professional welfare are unique in my experience. No one whom I know has done as much single-handed for the betterment of Chinese-American relations and that is only one of his many preoccupations.'

Dr. Dimond's father was from a prominent Mississippi family. The couple was visiting and Christmas shopping in St. Louis, his mother's home city, when she went into labor. Grey was born on his mother's birthday, December 8, 1918, and the family returned to Terre Haute, Indiana five days after his birth. During testimony in Jefferson City, Missouri, attempting to get funding for the new medical school, one of the legislators challenged Dimond as to why a Mississippi native was asking for Missouri money. The reply: "I was born in St. Louis and my mother's family came to Missouri in 1815, before it became a State. When did your family come?" The legislator choked, then recovered with a laugh, and said, 'You win! My father came here from Italy!' Dimond did not volunteer that he had lived in St. Louis only the first five days of his life.

As a youth, Dimond enjoyed sports, lettered in high school in football and track …