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Cultural Week of Nantong, China

The China Cultural Center said that it is organizing a cultural week featuring Nantong in Jiangsu Province, eastern China, from June 5 to 9 at the center with the Nantong government.

The event will show a variety of cultural aspects of the costal city, including exhibitions of how Nantong developed into a modern area and some embroidery handicrafts.

The center said that Nantong whose territory is 8,001 square kilometers with 7.8 million people is called the first modern city of China because it was first opened to foreigners among the 14 coastal cities.

There will be also a play performed by children, musical performances, and TV and film screenings from Nantong.

Scholars will have a seminar on the city and the Korean government official Kim Taei-young who studied in Nantong in the early 1900s and made Korean literature known there.

For more information, call the center at (02) 733-8307.