Culture & Life
Culture & Life
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Beijing Promotes 2022 Winter Olympics in Winter Olympics
Nov 3, 2015The Consul General at the Chinese Consulate of Los Angeles, Liujian, Director of the information office of Beijing municipal government (L1); Wang Hui (R2), Vice-mayor of Beverly Hills Julian Gold (L2);and Dong Junqing, Vice president of ...
Tags: Spring Festival, Winter Olympics
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Discovering The Charms of Chinese Wine
Nov 3, 2015On Feb. 9th, 2015, a wine tasting of Xixiaking wine from Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region was hosted in Beijing by the World Association of Chinese Cuisine and Ningxia Agricultural Reclamation Group. Yang Liu, the president of the association, ...
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UN General Assembly President Collects Luoyang Peony Porcelain Faceplate
Nov 3, 2015John Ashe, president of the 68th UN general assembly and honorary president of the Global Sustainable Development Fund met with Song Shengli, chairman of Luoyang Datang Guanyaociye Co,Ltd in Shenzhen, where he collected a peony porcelain ...
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Argentinian Ambassador Gustavo Martino: Dreams Coming True in Beijing
Nov 3, 2015It's easy to see how much Chinese people love football; you just need to look at the excitement of the crowd during a Guoan game... ... they’re coming along well and the team is full of enthusiasm. The best way to develop football is ...
Tags: football, Argentina, Chinese people
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Overseas Shops Prepare for Chinese New Year Holiday
Nov 3, 2015Retailers in neighboring Japan and South Korea are gearing up for huge numbers of Chinese tourists set to arrive for the upcoming Spring Festival national holiday. At a shopping center in Tokyo, not knowing any single word of Japansese ...
Tags: Overseas Shops, Chinese tourists, Spring Festival national holiday
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Forbidden City to Open Its Doors at Night
Nov 3, 2015Tourists visit the Palace Museum in Beijing on Feb 20, 2015. The Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City will extend its opening hours to make it more convenient for tourists, reports the Beijing Morning Post on ...
Tags: Forbidden City, extend opening hours, traditional culture
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China on Blue Alert for Dusty Weather
Nov 3, 2015The National Meteorological Center (NMC) on Sunday issued a blue alert for dusty weather that will choke northwest China. The NMC forecasted that a strong cold front will sweep northwest China on Monday, bringing strong wind and dusty ...
Tags: National Meteorological Center, blue alert, Dusty Weather
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"Passage to China" to Introduce Dynamic Chinese Culture to The World
Nov 3, 2015Travel host Denise Keller talks about impressive moments of the journey at the launch ceremony in Beijing on Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. Passage to China is a new Chinese cultural documentary series that follows a half Chinese - half German ...
Tags: Denise Keller, Chinese culture, the world
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Bill Viola's Video Art: Tackling Life and Death Head on
Nov 3, 2015The history of video art is still relatively short, emerging in the 60s and 70s along with the rise of television's ubiquity. But video art tends to be a far cry from the sitcoms, commercials and movies that we associate with the 2D medium. ...
Tags: Bill Viola, video art
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Sky Running Comes to Asia
Nov 3, 2015Runners of all abilities are attracted to take part in the Asian Sky Running Championship Race in Hong Kong. This February saw the first ever Asian Sky Running Championship race come to Hong Kong. The competition is one of the most ...
Tags: Sky Running, competition, Team China
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Luoyang Sees Beautiful Rime Ices in Mountainous Areas
Nov 3, 2015Ice and snow in downtown Luoyang melted away last weekend. But thanks to the previous freezing and moist weather, rime ice can be appreciated in Louyang's mountainous areas. Rime ice occurs when sudden cold weather forces fog to freeze into ...
Tags: Rime Ices, Mountainous Areas, Luoyang
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Inma: a Spanish Cultural Ambassador' Journey in Beijing
Nov 3, 2015The young Inma and her husband Liu Xiaosong Inma has seen the changes in Beijing overa space of over thirty years, from a closed offcountry to an open one, from one where thelocals are wary of foreigners, to one where theywelcome them, ...
Tags: Inma, living in China, Asian culture
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Italians Appreciate Spring Festival as Way to Enhance Knowledge of Chinese Culture
Nov 3, 2015Several events and celebrations have been planned in these days in Italy to mark the upcoming Chinese Year of the Goat. Through time, festivities for the Chinese New Year have become something Italians expect to take place in major cities ...
Tags: Spring Festival, Italians, Chinese Culture
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Chinese Shopping Spree Seen in Japan
Nov 3, 2015A "tax free" sign written in English, Chinese and Korean is displayed at a shop popular with tourists from Chinese-speaking countries in the upscale Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, February 19, 2015. [Photo: CFP] Chinese shoppers are ...
Tags: Chinese Shopping, "tax free", Japan
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Chinese Outbound Tourism Attracts World's Attention
Nov 3, 2015A workshop on Chinese outbound tourism was held at the International Tourismus-Boerse (ITB) in Berlin on Wednesday, the first day the world's biggest tourism trade fair opened to visitors. The discussion focused on China's "second wave" ...
Tags: Chinese outbound tourism, overseas traveling, Chinese customers
