Tianjin and Beijing may be separated by a mere 30 minutes of rail, but the two cities have definitely maintained their own unique flavors of culture, dialect, and cuisine. Chopsticks & Beyond took to Tianjin last Friday, where the cooking ...
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Thirty-four entries were added to the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List at the ninth session of the Intergovernmental Committee held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The five-day session assembled delegations and scholars from 161 ...
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Beijing's Summer Palace, China's largest imperial garden, now has a smart phone app, which was released Tuesday. The app profiles 112 of the garden's popular areas and maps them using GPS, said a Summer Palace manager. The app is free to ...
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Palace Museum. Fung Ming-chu, the Taipei Palace Museum director, revealed that her organization will hold a series of celebrations with the Palace Museum in Beijing. ...
The Palace Museum in Beijing unveiled a plan on Tuesday to control the number of visitors after dealing with overwhelming crowds for years. According to Shan Jixiang, director of the museum, the draft plan sets an upper limit for daily ...
Asian giant gears up to pull out all stops to halt the fall in inbound tourism, Yang Feiyue reports. China will step up efforts to reverse the decline in the number of inbound tourists. A total of 33,500 modern public restrooms will be ...
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With the approaching of the year of the sheep in the Chinese lunar calendar, the "Happy Chinese New Year, Charming Beijing" event will kick off at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on the afternoon of February1, 2015(local time). The ...
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1. Liulichang Street Location: South Xinhua Street, Hepingmenwai, Xuanwu District, Beijing. Liulichang Street of Chinese Culture is a 750 meter long collection of all kinds of Calligraphy, art, antiques and paintings that China has to ...
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The 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 ...
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On 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, ...
It'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 ...
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A performer practices crying out his wares as a street vendor at Badachu Park on Feb 9. (Source: China Daily/ Li Jundong) Despite more and more young people turning their back on tradition, temple fairs remain a favorite event during ...
Tourists 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 ...
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Travel 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 ...
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The 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. ...
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