Culture & Life
Culture & Life
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Miss Tourism Cultural World Competition Shows Beauty of Cheongsam
Oct 28, 20152015 Hunan Final of Miss Tourism Cultural World Competition concluded in Changsha, central China's Hunan province on Wednesday. 21-year-old Hong Yan won the champion of supermodel group and Tang He the champion of intelligent group. A ...
Tags: Tourism Cultural World Competition, Hong Yan, Cheongsam
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Beijing's Largest Annual Gathering of Art Galleries Kicks off
Oct 28, 2015The China International Gallery Exposition (CIGE), which is now in its 11th year, will be held at the China National Convention Center in Beijing from Oct 8 to Oct 11. Unlike previous expositions, CIGE 2015 not only made the exhibition ...
Tags: CIGE, exhibition, Art Galleries
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Traditional Chinese Villages Recorded for Conservation
Oct 28, 2015Since June, a conservation program has surveyed and made records of 281 traditional Chinese villages, said the center responsible for the program Wednesday. Pu Jiao, vice director of the Research Center for Conservation and Development of ...
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Chinese Doctor Behind a World Cardiac Summit in Beijing
Oct 28, 2015The famous Chinese cardiologist Zhang Shu, 56, was the main official at this year's World Congress of Arrhythmias, which was held in Beijing from Sept 17-19. As the secretary-general of the World Society of Arrhythmias that is held once ...
Tags: Chinese Doctor, Arrhythmias, ICD
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Nurturing Minds
Oct 28, 2015An American educator resides in a quiet Chinese city owing to her love of teaching, Liu Xiangrui reports in Yinchuan. Having spent about three years in the early 1990s teaching English to the residents of Yinchuan city in Northwest ...
Tags: Smith, poorer children, education
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'Chinese Holmes' Comes Home to Reality Show on CCTV
Oct 28, 2015Henry Chang-Yu Lee, the forensic scientist, had his own number tag (2056) at the Connecticut Department of Public Safety. But whenever his colleagues phoned for him, they asked for "007". In his career of more than 50 years, the ...
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US Facility Dedicated to Ancient Chinese Relics
Oct 28, 2015Much of East Asian culture can be traced to early Chinese civilization. Now the Tang Center, established at Columbia University in New York City, is unfolding ten millennia of China's cultural history and highlighting its importance today. ...
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Yo-Yo Ma Talks New Music and Turning 60
Oct 28, 2015Yo-Yo Ma's state of mind when performing is, he says, to have simultaneous access to both the conscious and unconscious mind. It is an act of artistic alchemy encapsulated in his new album Songs From the Arc of Life. For Ma, music has ...
Tags: Yo-Yo Ma, New Music, Arc of Life
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China Enters Go Away, Mr. Tumor for 88th Oscars
Oct 28, 2015The film Go Away, Mr. Tumor will represent China in her bid for Best Foreign Language Film for the 88th Academy Awards. According to the official website of the Academy Awards, Go Away, Mr. Tumor, based on a real life story of cartoonist ...
Tags: film, Go Away Mr.Tumor, Oscars
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China's National Day Holiday Box Office Hits Record High
Oct 28, 2015China's box office rang up takings of 1.85 billion yuan (about $291 million) during the National Day holiday, which ended on Wednesday, a record high. This is an increase of about 60 percent from the same period last year, according to ...
Tags: China's box office, film, "Goodbye Mr.Loser"
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The 18th BMF Opens with 'when East Meets West' Concert
Oct 28, 2015Opening night of the 18th Beijing Music Festival (BMF) took place at Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing on Thursday with a concert under the baton of noted Chinese conductor Yu Long who stands as the founder and art director of BMF. ...
Tags: The 18th BMF, Yu Long, West'Concert
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Stamps Featuring Palace Museum Released
Oct 28, 2015Photo taken on Oct 9 shows stamps featuring the Palace Museum, which were released today by China Post. A staff from Zhejiang Stamps Company shows stamps featuring the Palace Museum. Photo taken on Oct 9 shows stamps featuring the ...
Tags: Stamps, Palace Museum
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Lang Lang to Perform with Valdes
Oct 28, 2015Chinese pianist Lang Lang is to perform in a concert with "Chucho" Valdes for Havana's 500th anniversary celebration in Cuba tomorrow. The concert will be held at Havana's Cathedral Plaza, one of a series of events held throughout the ...
Tags: Lang Lang, Havana's 500th anniversary celebration, pianists
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a Sustainable Legacy: Palace Museum at 90
Oct 28, 2015Established on Oct 10, 1925, the Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, has come to symbolize Chinese culture all round the world. "In the late 1980s, people had to pay one yuan to visit the museum," said former ...
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Gabarron's Alhambra Sculptures Speak Loud About Cultural Integration in Beijing
Oct 28, 2015In lively colors of green, blue, orange and red, six sculptures of Alhambra Towers by celebrated Spanish artist Cristobal Gabarron are on exhibit in the open square of Beijing's Today Art Museum. This is Gabarron's first solo show here. ...
Tags: Gabarron, Today Art Museum, sculptures
