The 2015 U.S. Midwest "Chinese Bridge" Speech Contest was hosted by the University of Notre Dame and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Saturday, April 18. The event was sponsored by the Confucius Institute Headquarters and the Education Office of the Consulate General of the PRC in Chicago with support from Notre Dame's Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures, College of Arts and Letters Office for Undergraduate Studies, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, and Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. Additional details at ShanghaiDailly.com.