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The Shanghai School By staff reporter WU BING The decades from the mid 19th century to the early 20th century were years that saw the migration of many painters to Shanghai from its neighboring provinces Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The phenomenon gave rise to the Shanghai School, which ...
Shanghai for Art and Culture Hounds By staff reporter ZHAO YAYUAN SHANGHAI is not only an economic powerhouse, but also a cultural wellspring of China. A rough count will come up with more than 20 well-known museums, not to mention art galleries of various importance that number ...
This Month in History April 6, 317 Sima Rui (276-323), a prince of the collapsed Western Jin Dynasty, founded a small regime Eastern Jin (317- 420) in southern China. Its capital was today s Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. April 20, 429 Zu Chongzhi (429-500), a prominent Chinese ...
The Word Thieves Chinese Fight Copyright Violations By staff reporter LI WUZHOU AFTER a legal tussle lasting four years Wang Guangxiang, a reporter with a local newspaper in Jiangsu Province, eventually won an apology and compensation from the Hong Kong publisher who juggled and ...
This Month in History June 18, 618 Li Yuan (566-635) deposed the last Sui (581-617) emperor by force and founded the Tang Dynasty (618-907). The new empire, with its capital in Chang an (present-day Xi an), enjoyed great prosperity and stability for much of its time, bringing the ...
This Month in History May 4, 1919 The May Fourth Movement is one of the most important cultural and political movements in modern Chinese history. At the end of the First World War, in 1918, China was convinced it would be able to reclaim the territories occupied by the Germans ...
India Through the Eyes of a Chinese Journalist By TANG LU If not for my in-depth exchanges with local Indians and the intimate understanding I have gained of Indian society, my impressions of the Indian subcontinent would be as superficial as those of the majority of Chinese that ...
Shanghai's Celebrities By staff reporter ZHANG XUEYING One of the key factors that lead to Shanghai s rapid development is the city s prominent social environment where the economic prosperity and tolerance of cultural diversity brings out the best in each other. Such an ...
'The Art of the Enlightenment' in Beijing An exhibition by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Bayerische Staatsgem ldesammlungen Munich, in conjunction with the National Museum of China in Beijing Spring 2011 spring 2012 Berlin In spring 2011 ...
The Shanghai Expo Bringing the Global Family Together By staff reporter ZHANG MAN & GONG HAN THE 2010 Shanghai Expo is expected to attract 70 million visitors, many from around the world. A home stay program, dubbed the "Expo Family," has been set up to allow locals to open their ...
Rewriting the History of the Longquan Kilns By staff reporter ZHANG XUEYING Large quantities of porcelain fragments unearthed from a Longquan Kiln in Yunhe County, Lishui City, Zhejiang Province in May 2004. Photos by China Foto Press IN August 2009, archaeologists excavated the ...
India Through the Eyes of a Chinese Journalist By TANG LU A poster for Kaal, an Indian horror film, on display outside a cinema at Connaught Place in New Delhi. If not for my in-depth exchanges with local Indians and the intimate understanding I have gained of Indian society, my ...
Shenmu Pilots Medical Reform Plan SHENMU County in Shaanxi Province has been operating a medicare program since March 2009. As whether or not this pilot scheme is applicable nationwide is a matter of common concern, all eyes have been on this relatively obscure county for the ...
Festival to Exalt Fire By staff reporter XING WEN THE Torch Festival, also known as an Oriental Carnival, is an age-old custom among ethnic minorities such as the Yi, Bai, Achang and Lahu that live in southwest China. The celebration is held at different times by different ethnic ...
Chinese Cloisonn Jingtai Blue By staff reporter XING WEN WHEN visiting the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace or any former imperial residence, one can always find beautiful Chinese cloisonn wares on display. Such crafts, made with red copper, are also known as Jingtai Blue. ...
Artist and World Citizen By staff reporter ZHANG HONG Chinese-American artistic magpie Chen Jinfang. Zhang Hong FOR Chinese-American artist Chen Jinfang (Chen Tsing-fang), painting is the work of head, heart and guts. He is determined to create 100 works depicting the Shanghai ...
Little Theater Big Market By staff reporter ZHAO DAN IN 2009 Beijing's little theaters staged 3,200 performances, an increase of 1,000 productions over 2008," said Fu Weibo, general manager of the Oriental Avant-Garde Theater. "Schedule of our theater has been booked through the ...
The Give and Take of Charity By CHU HAN IN early 2010, a netizen posted on a well-known website forum his personal doubts regarding donations raised by Zhang Ziyi after the Wenchuan Earthquake. He raised two issues. First, Zhang Ziyi claimed that she donated RMB one million, but ...
Animal Figures and Ancient Buildings By staff reporter WU BING Baxia, the mythical seventh son of the dragon, as drainage outlets in the Forbidden City. Zhao Yayuan ANIMAL images are common on traditional-style buildings in China, and they have connotations and symbolic functions ...
Number One National Treasure Hou Mu Wu Rectangular Ding By XUE BO OF over one million cultural relics in the China National Museum (formerly China History Museum) the Hou Mu Wu Rectangular Ding is its most prized. This bronze ding (cooking pot) is a ritual vessel that was used by ...
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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 ...