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Enjoy Longevity by Practicing Painting and Calligraphy By staff reporter WU BING AMONG China's 100 famous masters of painting and calligraphy over the past two centuries, at least 20 of them lived to be over 85. The longest-lived reached 109. Many who have researched the secret ...
Deng Xiaoping's Third Comeback By intern reporter ZHAO YAYUAN Deng Xiaoping (right) and Chen Yun at the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the CPC in Beijing, December 1978. Cnsphoto ON the evening of July 30,1977, Deng Xiaoping attended the closing ceremony ...
China Loves Magic! By staff reporter ZHANG XUEYING Magicians from all over the world descended on Beijing in late July for the World Championships of Magic (WCM), aka Magic Olympic Games. "For the first time, this elite magic event came to a developing country," notes Lin Jian, ...
Zhang Jinling: From Screen to Ink and Paint By staff reporter WU BING Zhang Jinling makes a speech at the opening of her solo exhibition. ON April 9, Zhang Jinling's solo art exhibition "Time Sculpting Beauty" opened in the Wuxi Museum. For people over 40, Zhang is remembered as ...
Coupling and Uncoupling Chinese Style By staff reporter QIAO TIANBI DECADES ago, in the era of the "cultural revolution" (1966-1976), love and marriage bore a heavy political burden; the little red book (Quotations of Chairman Mao) was presented in place of a wedding band, or ...
Contemporary Landscape Painting This Land Is so Rich in Beauty by Fu Baoshi and Guan Shanyue. By staff reporter WU BING It was the tenth anniversary of the People's Republic of China in 1959 when the Great Hall of the People to the west of Tian'anmen Square was unveiled. As a ...
Lessons Learned A Former American President Celebrates 30 Years of U.S.-China Relations By staff reporter SETH ADAM GROSSMAN A month before the PRC 60th anniversary celebrations in Beijing, I traveled back to the US as part of a group from the Chinese media to meet with former ...
Chinese Characters No Double Dutch By BIRGIT FISCHER "SO cute! Your handwriting is the equivalent of babytalk," was the reception I got when I proudly showed my Chinese friends the Chinese characters I had painstakingly brushed. At that time, I had just started life as a college ...
This Month in History January 8, A.D. 265 Sima Yan established the Western Jin Dynasty (265-316). Although the Western Jin survived for a mere 52 years, it ended the turmoil of the Three Kingdoms Period (220-280) and unified China, providing a period of stability for social and ...
This Month in History February 28, 202 B.C. Liu Bang (256 - 195 B.C.) founded the Western Han Dynasty (202 B.C.- A..D. 9), choosing Chang an (present-day Xi an) as its capital. China reached a new peak in economic, political, scientific and cultural development, growing into one ...
Garrison Communities: Living Relics of the Ming Dynasty By SHUAI XUEJIAN THE Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) is regarded as a high point in Chinese civilization and historically it was certainly one of the richest and most populous empires. However, during its early period, the nation s ...
Sports Magnates Go for Gold in China By staff reporter JIAO FENG Chinese people are showing an unprecedented enthusiasm for sport in this post-Olympic era. Since September 2009, many of the world's top sporting contests were fought on Chinese soil, including the World Snooker ...
The Womanly Arts By staff reporter WU BING Think of a Chinese painter and it is likely you are thinking of a man. The world of Chinese art is generally believed to have been dominated by prolific males. But there are some brilliantly accomplished female painters, past and present...
A Matter of Taste: Cultivating the Vineyards of the Future By staff reporters CELINE PERRAUD & SETH GROSSMAN Nestled in the hills that surround Beijing is an enclave of old-world charm, where a European style castle cuts a strange and lonely figure in the landscape. Called the Ch ...
3D Films Find New Dimensions By TANG YUANKAI The first foreign commercial three-dimensional (3D) film Journey to the Center of the Earth was shown to the general public in China in 2008, earning RMB 21 million during its premiere week thanks to the novelty of its visual effects. ...
Move Over! Installation Art in China By staff reporter WU BING THE field of Chinese installation art was ignited by a single event: a one-man show at the National Art Museum in Beijing staged in the 1980s by American artist Robert Rauschenberg. In the following three decades many ...
Russian Art: A Run on Oils in China By staff reporter WU BING SHAO Jialing is president of an interior decoration company in Heihe, a northern border city cozying up to Russia s Amurskaya Oblast. His office is decorated with several Russian oil paintings, suggesting a certain ...
Mom's Verdict By staff reporter ZHAO YAYUAN Netizens get younger and younger and parents are more concerned than ever about online content. Nearly every mother nurses a hope the hope of keeping her child far away from Internet pornography and indecent content. In January 2010, a ...
Bold Shanghai Nostalgia and New Beginnings SHANGHAI is the symbol of China's modern prosperity and opening to the outside world, though its outward reach dates back as early as 1,000 years ago when this city at the estuary of the Yangtze River in East China opened its port to ...
Having Your Art and Eating It Too By staff reporter ZHOU CHANG The Chinese version of the Antique Road Show has an interesting twist: they break the fakes. IN May 1900, a Briton spent 10 pounds for an old Chinese vase. On July 15, 2005, his offspring sold the vase for 3.5 million...
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Folk House of the Bai Ethnics
Folk House of the Bai Ethnics
The folk house of the Bai ethnics is the folk architecture of the Bai ...
Chinese Tamales
Chinese Tamales
Zongzi (or zhongzi) are traditionally eaten during Dragon Boat ...
Benzhu religion of the Bai
Benzhu religion of the Bai
The Bai spiritual tradition consists of a set of syncretic beliefs, ...
Martial arts extravaganza hits Beijing’s Poly Theater
Martial arts extravaganza hits Beijing’s Poly Theater
Now on tour, the show "Kungfu Revelations: Nine scrolls" is making a ...
Exhibition showcases classic Chinese art
Exhibition showcases classic Chinese art
A staff member at the National Library shows the process of repairing ...
14th Shanghai International Film Festival
14th Shanghai International Film Festival
The 14th edition of the annual Shanghai International Film Festival ...
Relics featuring ancient Dian culture unearthed in Yunnan
Relics featuring ancient Dian culture unearthed in Yunnan
Photo taken on May 23, 2011 shows the gallipots unearthed from a relic ...
The west wind-tunnel travels An qing of China
The west wind-tunnel travels  An   qing of China
Introduce The west scenic spot of wind-tunnel is that China spent the ...
Ruyi - Granters of Wishes
Ruyi - Granters of Wishes
In China, there have been numbers of "Auspicious Pattern" that is ...