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Listed are the highlights of each issue. To order a back issue, call 212-280-4648. Please reference the volume number and the year it was published when making your request. 

1. Volume 2, No. 1. "Review 1980," published Spring 1981.
FEATURES: U.S. Visit of Music and Arts Education Delegation; The Playwright Cao Yu; Music and Music Education in China; Cooperative Projects; Art Historian from China; David Gilbert with the Central Philharmonic; Reviewing, Exploring, and Improving; Update/1981. 

2. Volume 3, No. 1. "China Welcomes American Artists," published Spring 1982.
FEATURES: Advisory Council for Center; China Welcomes American Artists, Finale, Fanfare, and Focus; Beverly Sills Shows How It's Done; Miniature UN for DeLay, Lin, and Rivers; Educating a New Audience; Painter-Poet, Dreamers, and Dancers; Year's Sojourn for Conductor; American Musicians Change Their Tune; My Life in China as a Writer. 

3. Volume 3. "Dialogue on U.S.-China Arts Education," published Summer 1983.
FEATURES: Dialogue on U.S.-China Arts Education; Farewell to Chen Xieyang; Master Teachers and Promising Students; Portrait of an Artist; Honors for New Segal Work; Columbia's First Henry Luce Visiting Fellow; Words on Words: A Writers' Forum; Focus on Technique; Encore for Anderson; The Golden Sound of Brass; Bestseller in Translation; A Fashion Trade; A Wish Fulfilled; Segal Joins Advisory Council; Salesman in Beijing; Viola Virtuoso; Behind the Scenes. 

4. Volume 5. "New Programs, New Directions," published Summer 1984.
FEATURES: Arts Education; Arthur Miller's "Salesman" Travels to Beijing; Of Atriums, Ateliers, and Architraves; Qin Master Wu Wenguang & Composer Luo Jingjing; Visual Arts; Architecture and Planning; Encore for Lin Cho-liang; Music Exchanges Flourish; A Celebration of Poets and Writers; First Song; Kenneth Koch: Firing Young Imaginations; The Railroad, Dream, and A Wish Poem; Advisory Council Meets; New Faces at Center. 

5. Volume 6. "Program Year 1984-85," published Summer 1986.
FEATURES: Three-Year Arts Education Exchange Continues; PEN Symposium Kicks Off Writers' April Visit; Chinese Artists in America; Young Violinists: Guo Li and Yu Yen; Luce Grant Funds Visual Arts Exchange; American Artists in China; Americans Make Music in China; Norris Houghton: Theater Specialist in Shanghai and Beijing; The Center Acts as Host to Many Visiting Delegations Invited by Other Organizations; Chinese Attend International Theater Conference in Italy; U.S.-China Architecture Glossary Planned; Beijing Architect Lu Zengbiao; Translator's Delegation; Feng Mu, Writer, Visits United States; China International Culture Exchange Centre Delegation; Two Delegations from the Chinese Theater Association; Photographic Exhibitions: Beijing and New York City; Rotation of the Advisory Council Brings New Members; Staff Changes; Center Advisers, Consultants, and Alumni Earn New Honors. 

6. Volume 7. "Program Year 1985-86," published Summer 1987.
FEATURES: An Enduring Exchange; The Event of the Year; Chinese Artists in America; Chinese-American Writers' Conference; Dancers' Association Delegation; Center Assists Chinese Artists; Awards to Center "Alumni"; NTD Tours China; Cunningham Dancers in Beijing; Making Music; Arts in Xinjiang; Center Lends a Hand; Comings and Goings; More to Come. 

7. Volume 8. "Program Year 1986-87," published Spring 1988.
FEATURES: Arts Education Milestone Reached, May 1987: Capital Campaign Tops $1 Million; Writers Meet Writers; Fall Update-Capital Campaign Surpasses Halfway Mark for Two-Year Goal; Balanchine Danced in Shanghai and Beijing; Beyond the Open Door; Broadway and Off-Broadway Come to China; Orchestral Management; New York International Ballet Competition; The Juilliard Orchestra Plays Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou; Center Lends a Hand; Pavarotti in China; Staff Changes. 

8. Volume 9. "Program Years 1987-89," published Fall 1990.
FEATURES: Center Issues New Policy Statement: Summer of 1989; Arts Exchange Postpones Some China Programs; Fact-finding Delegation T ravels to Beijing, Shanghai, and Chengdu; Conference on Tradition and the Future of Chinese Music; Conference on Arts Education Completes Three-Year Exchange; O'Neill Teachers Exchange; Qu Xiaosong; Wu Tianming; Stagecraft Delegation; Richard Schechner Returns to China to Direct a Play; Center Lends a Hand; Staff Changes; Postponed Projects. 

9. Volume 10. "Program Year 1989-90," published Spring 1992.
FEATURES: The Pacific Composers Conference; The Pacific Music Festival; Working with Tradition; Leonard Bernstein; Musical Dichotomy; The Role of the Pacific Composer; Pacific Composers Conference Agenda; In Retrospect; Advisory Council Changes; Staff Changes; Policy Update; Nationality Arts in Yunnan Province; Pacific Composers Project. 

10. Volume 11. "Special Yunnan Issue," published Fall 1995. FEATURES: Bringing You Up to Date; Yunnan Nationalities Cultures Project; Yunnan Specialists Come to the United States; Specialists Travel to China from the United States and South and Southeast Asia; In Their Own Words; Center Holds a Review of Yunnan Nationalities Cultures Project; Minority Arts in Yunnan; Intellectual Climate in China Since the Tiananmen Events; Yunnan Nationalities Cultures Project: Cooperating Institutions and Individuals; O'Neill Teachers Exchange in Arts Education; The Center's Core Problems Continue Unabated; The Center Works with the Sichuan Conservatory; Planned Exchange Trips Unfortunately Cancelled; Pacific Composers Project; Chou Wen-chung's Many and Varied Activities; The Center Receives Funding for a Variety of New Projects; Advisory Council Changes; Staff Changes.