Culture & Life
Culture & Life
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French Collector Hands Over Another 24 Gold Relics to China
Oct 29, 2015Twenty-four solid gold ornaments dating back almost 2,000 years were returned to China without compensation on Monday, on the grounds that they had been looted from tombs in Gansu province and held by French collectors. Following a similar ...
Tags: French Collector, Gold Relics, artifacts
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British Rock Band Muse Bring 'drones' Tour to China
Oct 29, 2015British rock band Muse is currently on their first-ever tour in China. On Saturday night, they made their mainland debut at Beijing's Mastercard Centre. Famous for their highly conceptualized albums, innovative instrumentation, and ...
Tags: British rock band, Muse, drones
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Annual Garment and Textile Fair Opens in Dalian
Oct 29, 2015China's port city of Dalian is a fashion powerhouse with growing international clout. Its annual Garment and Textile fair has drawn in global brands, but local suppliers are winning fans for their interplay of Chinese elements with advanced ...
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2015 China (Qufu) International Confucius Cultural Festival Kicks off
Oct 29, 2015According to a press conference held yesterday in Beijing, the 2015 China (Qufu) International Confucius Cultural Festival will open on Sept 26 at the great thinker's hometown Qufu in Jining city, Shandong province. Organized by the ...
Tags: Confucius Cultural Festival, traditional Chinese Culture
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Mid-Autumn Dinner Sets Guinness World Record
Oct 29, 2015The Mid-Autumn Festival will fall on Sept. 27 in 2015. It is the second most important festival for Chinese people, only after the Spring Festival. In this year, a charity event "Super Mid-Autumn Reunion Dinner" has been launched across the ...
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Culture Insider: 8 Things You May Not Know About Autumn Equinox
Oct 29, 2015The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Autumn Equinox, the 16th solar term of the year, begins this year on Sept 23 and ends on Oct 7. Autumn Equinox lies at the midpoint of autumn, dividing autumn ...
Tags: 8 Things, Autumn Equinox, Culture Insider
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Lin Zhaohua's New Play Set in Beijing
Oct 29, 2015Lin Zhaohua, an eminent Chinese stage director known for his sharp flavor in plays, will debut Yinding Qiao (Yinding Bridge) at Beijing's Poly Theater on Oct 2. The city's landmark attraction of Yinding Bridge, which is located over a ...
Tags: Lin Zhaohua, plays, director
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Beijing Hosts World Cardiac Event
Oct 29, 2015The 15th World Congress of Arrhythmias was held in Beijing from Sept 17-19, with cardiologists talking about their experiences at more than 300 seminars of the event, which was hosted on the Chinese mainland for the first time since it ...
Tags: World Congress of Arrhythmias, pacemakers, cardiac problems
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French Director Explores The Infinite Possibilities of Life
Oct 29, 2015When a middle-aged imaginative trader who has just been released from prison and a younger photographer who has a strong empathy for others meet in an empty subway, what do we expect? Probably nothing, some would say. Indeed, we have been ...
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Giant Animal Fossils Found at Building Site in Lanzhou
Oct 29, 2015On Monday afternoon, fossils of several ancient animals were found at a building site in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu province. Yu and Bai, two workers from Yuzhong county of Gansu province, were digging a ditch. When they ...
Tags: Animal Fossils, scattered bones, potteries, Lanzhou
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Major Film Project to Premiere in US
Oct 29, 2015A documentary about Chinese geography and culture that has been two years in the making will be premiered to coincide with President Xi Jinping's state visit to the United States. China From Above, a 100-minute film covering geographic ...
Tags: documentary, Chinese geography, culture, Film Project
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Creative Industry Hub Shows Great Promise
Oct 29, 2015A former textile factory in Beijing's Chaoyang district is taking on a new look and is set to become a hub for the capital's creative industries. Covering an area of 120,000 square meters, Laijin Creative Industry Park is built on the ...
Tags: textile factory, Creative Industry Hub, industrial legacy
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The 2ND Silk Road Int'l Arts Festival Ends in Xi'an
Oct 29, 2015The 2nd Silk Road International Arts Festival concluded on Tuesday in Xi'an, capital of West China's Shaanxi province. Artists and companies from 62 countries participated in the festival, almost double in number compared with last year. ...
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How Much Do We Know About US College Students?
Oct 29, 2015An annual dialogue between American and Chinese college students has taken place in Beijing. This year's event has asked the question: How much do we know about each other? In an attempt to answer it, college students from Chinese and ...
Tags: dialogue, Chinese college students, US College Students
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China to Mark Upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival
Oct 29, 2015Chinese people will receive the Mid-Autumn Festival on Sept. 27 this year, the 15th day of the eight month in lunar calender. It is a tradition to eat mooncakes and have a family gathering on the festival.
Tags: Mid-Autumn Festival, mooncakes
