Since 1974

Established in 1974, Mei-Hwa Chinese School is a non-profit, non-sectarian, non-political educational institution. Our Mission is to instruct Chinese language and introduce Chinese culture to students of all ages, especially 3 through 18. In addition to our language lessons, our cultural lessons offer Chinese folk art & craft, singing, Chinese folk dance, Chinese board games, Chinese folk sports, Chinese painting, and Chinese calligraphy to the students in Kindergarten and above. We also offer conversation courses for those interested in speaking and understanding Chinese.

Mei-Hwa has been teaching Chinese to children in a fun environment using modern, age-appropriate, teaching methods for past 30 plus years. Come be part of a continuing tradition!

There are several ways to contact us:

1. Call one of our board members
2. Send your inquiry to contact@meihwa.org.
3. Fill in the form below then hit send button

• The Fall semester started on September 11, 2011.
• Download 2011-2012 school year's Registration form.
• The school may be closed due to the inclement weather or other unforeseen event. If that happens, you should see it here and/or receive a phone call from your teacher.
• Download School Calendar (2011-2012)
• Download supplemental class materials here

• 教務組 Curriculum Department
• 美華資訊 School Information
• 課外活動 Extracurricular Activities
• 組織章程 Mei-Hwa Bylaws
• 理事會 Board of Directors
• 董事會 Trustees

Excellent Sites for Information about Chinese,
its Language and Culture

Class Links

• 幼童華語讀本 Basic Children's Chinese Reader from OCAC
• 兒童華語讀本 Children's Chinese Reader from OCAC
• 二年級 Grade 2
• 三年級 Grade 3
• 四年級 Grade 4

Chinese General Information

• Zhongwen - Chinese Characters, Culture, Dictionary, Philosophy, History, and Classical Literatures.
• China the Beautiful - Chinese Art and Literature, Calligraphy, Poetry, History, Painting, and Philosophy.
• Chinese Culture from Jun Shan's About.com Guide.
• Chinese language from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Learning Chinese Language

• Learning Chinese Online - by Dr. Tianwei Xie, Dept. of Asian and Asian American Studies, California State University at Long Beach.
• On-line Chinese Tools assist people in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language.
• Chinese Character Flashcards
• Learning Chinese 28 lessons that cover the daily life and cultures, some of them has audio clips.
• USC Chinese Language Program offers some on-line characters and reading lessons along with their programs.
• Chinese Character Tools has a few Chinese character tools that help examine Chinese characters with various encodings
• Learn Chinese Online a commercial site that provides a broad foundational grasp of the principles behind Mandarin Chinese.
• Teach Yourself Mandarin Chinese A complete course site: reading, writing, basic vocabulary, grammar, examples, exercices. With all the texts and dialogs in mp3 format for download.

Chinese Dictionary

• Yahoo 奇摩字典 a powerful Chinese-English English-Chinese on-line dictionary with pronounciation capability.
• MDBG Chinese-English dictionary a comprehensive site for characters, phrases, sentences lookup and translation.
• Chinese Characters Dictionary Web allows simultaneous searching of the major Chinese character dictionaries on the web; requires Chinese browser or fonts.
• Chinese Character Dictionary provides lookup capabilities in English, Pinyin, Cantonese, or by character paste-in.
• Mandarin-Cantonese-Hakka-English Character Dictionary provides several different look-up methods for characters and Romanizations.

Chinese Calligraphy

• Calligraphy of the Masters presents a few arbitrarily selected works of the master calligraphers.
• Calligraphy Exercise Sheets to help in learning to write Hanzi
• Chinese Art Forms presents Chinese calligraphy and papercuts.

Chinese Art and Culture

• National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan has a rich collection of precious treasures from 7,000 years of Chinese history.
• Treasures of the Chinese Scholar - presented by The University of Pennsylvania Musuem of Archaeology and Anthropology.
• Splendors of Imperial China - presented by Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.

Chinese Cuisine

• Chinese Food and Recipes from About.com
• Chinese Dining Etiquette - Hong Kong Chinese dining beliefs and etiquette
• Learn to Cook Chinese Dishes covers from Appetizers to Family Banquet, pretty good collections.
• Chinese Cooking - Chinese Recipes Chinese Cooking and Chinese Recipes with Easy Find

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