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Diehard Cinema Fan
Dec 11, 2015Chinese TV producer Shen Jian (right) is a frequent guest at influential film events, such as the Academy Awards ceremony. [Photo provided to China Daily] Ang Lee turned down a number of interview requests from world media when his ...
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TV Series About Iconic Singer Teresa Teng in The Works
Nov 26, 2015Teresa Teng in 1977. [Photo/Xinhua] Twenty years after iconic singer Teresa Teng died of an asthma attack, her fame is far from abating, and a biographical television series reportedly is in the works between Taiwan producers and those on ...
Tags: TV Series, Singer, Teresa Teng
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Temple Fairs Remain a Firm Favorite
Nov 3, 2015A 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 ...
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New Book Offers Rare Insight Into Xi's Personal Journey
Oct 29, 2015The Xi Jinping Era presents his vision in Chinese and English, and offers glimpses into the president's personal life. As a young boy, Xi Jinping once refused to wear an old pair of shoes with floral prints for fear of being teased by ...
Tags: New Book, Xi's Personal Journey
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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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Return of Madam Snake
Aug 26, 2015The Chinese fairy tale figure Madam White Snake is back again, this time in two very different guises. The first is in the time-honored way in which audiences are used to seeing it, and the other in a very contemporary form. The first ...
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The Decade of The 1950s Saw Women's Clothing in China Lose All Aesthetic Significance
Oct 22, 2014The decade of the 1950s saw women's clothing in China lose all aesthetic significance after the founding of New China. After experiencing the Great Leap Forward [*note] and the People's Communalization Movement [*note], Chinese women's ...
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New China Has Seen Rapid Changes in The People's Clothing
Oct 22, 2014On the first day of October 1949, 300,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians gathered at Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing and joined the founding ceremony of the New China. Chairman Mao read out the public announcement of the Central ...
Tags: Western dress, leather shoes
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By The End of 1976, Winter of Fashion Discontent Finally Over and The Ice Begins to Melt
Oct 22, 2014The full decade of the Cultural Revolution movement from 1966 to 1976 saw China's fashion go underground, buried under a sea of grass green army uniforms and Mao suits. But by the end of the year 1976, the winter of fashion discontent was ...
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Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement Was a Movement Promoted in Taiwan
Mar 17, 2014The Chinese Cultural Renaissance or the Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement was a movement promoted in Taiwan to undo the cultural destructions caused by the Communist Party of China. Some notable acts of destruction include Cultural ...
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Google Glass Will Force CIOs to Take a Fresh Look at BYOD Schemes
Nov 7, 2013Google Glass and other smartglass technology will force CIOs to take a fresh look at their bring-your-own-device (BYOD) schemes as wearable computing begins to make headway into the workplace as early as 2017. That's according to ...
Tags: Smartglasses, Computer Products, google
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PC Market Decisively Caught up with Intel Today Following Second Quarter Results
Jul 23, 2013The slowdown in the PC market decisively caught up with Intel today following second quarter results in which revenues fell by 5.1 per cent compared to the same quarter in 2012. The company posted revenues of $12.8bn in the second quarter ...
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It Is in a Process That Is Driving a Revolutionary Change in Business
Jun 26, 2013The working world is undergoing"disaggregation"from physical location,time and information availability constraints,says Jim Henrys,an enterprise strategist at semiconductor giant Intel,in a process that is driving a revolutionary change in ...
Tags: working world, 'Cultural Revolution', dematerialisation, mobile devices
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Celebration Of Qingming Festival
May 16, 2013The Qingming Festival is an opportunity for celebrants to remember and honour their ancestors at grave sites. Young and old pray before the ancestors, sweep the tombs and offer food, tea, wine, chopsticks, joss paper accessories, and/or ...
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Different Kinds of Women's Clothing in China
Apr 15, 2013In China, women had different kinds of clothes in ancient times. Those clothes changed with the revolution of dynasties. For examples, in the 1920s, the Cheongsam was fashionable among socialites and upperclass women; during the 1960s, very ...
Tags: Women's Clothing, Cheongsam, Apparel