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International Treasures : Same Time, Same Place By staff reporter LI WUZHOU SOME of the world s greatest treasures are keeping each other company in the Shanghai Expo Park from May to October this year. Among them are masterpieces by Millet, Michelangelo and Frida Kahlo and ...
Legendary Shanghai Modern By TANG YUANKAI Fast growth and expansion transformed Shanghai in less than a century from a fishing village to a metropolis blending old and new cultures. China Foto Press SHORTLY after the motion picture industry began to blossom in China, Shanghai ...
The Fourth Treasure By staff reporter XING WEN THE grand opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 was unforgettable. On the center stage, elements unique to China rolled past us on a vast scroll. Projections of cliff paintings dissolved into an ink-and-wash painting ...
This Month in History (JULY) July 30, 1932 Chinese runner Liu Changchun competed in the 100 and 200 meter events at the 10th Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, marking China s first entry to this arena. On the recommendation of Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001), a general in Northeast ...
Blessings for All By staff reporter XING WEN EVERY August, Tibetans on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau gather to hold the most important gala of the year Shoton Festival. In the Tibetan language, sho means yoghurt and ton means feast. It falls on the end of the sixth month of the ...
The Legacy of a Great Master By staff reporter WU BING The Soul of the Pine reflects the quasi-abstract style Wu adopted in his later years. CELEBRATED artist Wu Guanzhong passed away at the age of 91 on June 25, 2010. His lifetime achievement was to successfully apply Western ...
Loanwords International Norms Will Do By HUANG YOUYI Huang Youyi at the launch ceremony of He Zhenliang and China s Olympic Dream. RECENTLY a debate has raged in the media concerning how the Chinese language can borrow words from foreign languages while still keeping its ...
Snooker in China By staff reporter ZHU HONG Ding Junhui won his first world title at the 2005 China Open. CFP AS one of world s seven professional snooker tournaments, the Roewe Shanghai Masters is now in its fourth year, attracting top players and countless snooker fans. This ...
Wang Guangmei s Personal Photo Album (II) The Family Life of the First Lady By LUO HAIYAN WANG Guangmei and Liu Shaoqi married in a small village called Xibaipo in Hebei Province, where the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made its headquarters. The wedding was ...
Childcare for the Poor By CHU QI Many low-income parents have to send their kids to an unregistered kingergarten like this one. IN the 1990s, rural laborers started to migrate as family units rather than individuals, to the cities and towns that would provide them a living. In ...
The Kindest Cut By staff reporter XING WEN Acupuncture is a highly developed and systematic therapy and the discipline continues to be refined. ACUPUNCTURE, the procedure of inserting needles into points (hence acupuncture points) on one s body to relieve pain, is a centuries-old ...
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY SEPTEMBER September 18, 1931 On this date, the Japanese Kanto Army purposely dynamited a section of railway near Mukden (now Shenyang) in southern Manchuria, but accused Chinese dissidents of the act. The Mukden Incident, or as it is popularly known in China...
The Twelve Muqams and the Uygur Spirit By staff reporter XING WEN A folk artist plays Muqam with his grandson at home. Up to now, keeping the music alive has been an inside job. THERE is a saying in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region that where there are Uygurs, there is Muqam. ...
Wang Guangmei s Personal Photo Album (III) The Days with Liu Shaoqi By LUO HAIYAN As First Lady, Wang Guangmei often accompanied Liu Shaoqi on official visits overseas. WANG Guangmei and Liu Shaoqi set a good example of happy family life for the high-ranking political couples of ...
Speaking Out Climate Casualties and Culprits By staff reporter YAN WEIJUAN WHEN scholars and politicians are toiling away at research on climate change and pausing only to dispute with each other with faces reddened to the ears, has the public even noticed this phenomenon? What ...
Mixed Results from the Tianjin Meeting By ZHANG FANG The Tianjin Meeting on climate change was held from October 4 to 9. THE 14th session of the AWG-KP (Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol) and the 12th session of the AWG-LCA ...
This Month in History OCTOBER October 10, 1934 The start of the Long March of the Central Red Army. After five offensives by the Kuomintang and a leftist policy that had severely sapped Communist strength, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to leave its ...
China's World Heritage List Gets Longer By staff reporter JIAO FENG It could be the latest Kungfu flick... but it s actually martial arts practice in the Shaolin Temple s Pagoda Forest, made up of the tombs of former abbots. AT the 34th World Heritage Committee annual meeting ...
A New Lifestyle in Jiaxing By special correspondent OUYANG LIANG The new high-speed railway has become a marketing carrot for real estate along its corridor.CFP IT was 11 a.m., on October 25, 2010, when I arrived at Wang Jinlan s home, one of a group of villa houses in Fengqiao, ...
Cancun: Opinions on the Matter By staff reporters YAN WEIJUAN & ZHU HONG More than symbolism: Dalian launched an environmental protection campaign featuring about 100 ice carvings of animals melting under a scorching sun. China Foto Press WE live on one planet. Since climate ...
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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 ...