An 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 ...
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A report by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape and Forestry shows that 1,094 of the city's historic gardens and parks lack of overall protection and are particularly at risk, even facing permanent disappearance. Although "Regulations ...
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The 2015 International Beijing Design Week (BJDW) kicked off on Wednesday, highlighting designs that are open and inclusive, and devoted to improving people's lives. Co-hosted by the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of ...
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As Cining Gong in the Forbidden City is set to be unveiled to the public, some of those behind its painstaking restoration process share their experiences. Wang Kaihao reports. It is a closed part of the Palace Museum, also known as the ...
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Chinese President Xi Jinping recently paid a state visit to the US, but cultural exchanges between the two countries are an important backdrop to the diplomatic ones. For example, Universal Studios has just contracted to build a theme park ...
The blockbuster art show 15 Rooms, which opened at the Long Museum in Shanghai on Thursday, has created quite a stir. At the live-art exhibition, artists and artist groups from different cultural backgrounds present artwork through ...
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No matter what soothes your soul, the classic or beyond the mainstream, come and be spoiled for choice at the Beijing Music Festival, says Chen Jie. For music lovers, Beijing has too many choices, from high-brow classical to underground ...
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Anticipation among history buffs is running high ahead of the opening up of the western section of the Forbidden City. Officials with the Palace Museum in Beijing are set to open the western part of the Imperial Palace compound for the ...
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New York's renowned Juilliard School will launch its first overseas campus to offer graduate courses in music in the northern Chinese municipality of Tianjin by 2018. Sources with the administrative commission of Tianjin Binhai New ...
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French sportsman Julien Vandelli didn't foresee that he would spend five years reading the abstruse ancient Chinese medical text Huangdi Neijing in a Chinese university, where he practices acupuncture and medical massage. However, the ...
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For the past few decades, actress Liu Xiaoqing has managed to stay in the media spotlight, owing to her longevity as one of China's most popular actresses, still playing roles much younger than her own age. And being a top-selling ...
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A Chinese painting exhibition that highlights ancient Guizhou villages opened in Moscow's China Cultural Center on October 5. Guizhou, a province located in Southwest China, is known for its diverse landscape and long history. With the ...
The interior of Shoukang Palace. The western section of the Imperial Palace compound will be opened to the public on Oct 10, the first time in 90 years. This area used to be the place where empresses lived. The large western part ...
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The 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 ...
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Henry 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 ...