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China's Latest Five-Year Plan Could Be Its Last
Feb 24, 2017The outline for China’s 13th five-year plan isn’t exactly summer beach reading: The 65,858-character document, which lays out in broad terms how China’s leaders want the country’s economy to develop between now and ...
Tags: five-year plan, political economy
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Letter to UK Politician From Mao Sells for $908,000
Dec 17, 2015Mao's letter bearing his and Zhu De's signatures.[Photo/China Daily] A letter from Mao Zedong appealing to the leader of the British Labour Party in 1937 for help against Japanese invaders has sold for 605,000 pounds ($908,000) at auction ...
Tags: Letter, Mao Zedong
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Letter From Mao Zedong to UK Politician to Go for Auction
Dec 2, 2015The file photo shows a fragment of a letter from China's Mao Zedong to former Labour Prime Minister Clement Atlee in 1937. A letter written by China's Mao Zedong asking a leading British politician for help in fighting Japanese invaders ...
Tags: Letter, Mao Zedong, UK Politician
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Veteran Reinvents Classic Tale
Nov 26, 2015Li Weikang, one of the country's most famous Peking Opera performers, wants to use her experience to keep the traditional theater form fresh. [Photos provided to China Daily] Like many ancient art forms in China, Peking Opera is ...
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'Red Articles' Continue to Shine in Modern Ear
Oct 29, 2015Xue Kaizhong was not surprised when the gold and silver coins he bought on Aug 27 for 6,600 yuan ($1,033) were worth 9,000 yuan in mid-September. The 64-year-old, who lives in Zhongshan, Guangdong province, stood in line for two hours to ...
Tags: Red Articles, gold coins, silver coins, collection
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An Exciting and Satisfying Form of Theater:Peking Opera
Jan 8, 2015Peking Opera is an exciting and satisfying form of theater. As an art, it is well integrated, with story, singing, acting, gesture, costume, stagecraft, gymnastics and makeup all being very important. You couldn't get a job as a Peking ...
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Emerging From The Shadows - The Changing Role of Women in China's History
Nov 18, 2014For the main part of China’s history, women were dominated by a patriarchic system and forced to a background role. Only in recent history have they reached a more equal position in Chinese society and started to visibly shape the ...
Tags: Role of Women, China's history
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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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Hutchison China Meditech Had Enrolled Patients for a Study of Colorectal Cancer
Sep 11, 2014Amid daily updates from the pharmaceuticals industry on the latest clinical trials, last week's announcement by Hutchison China MediTech that it had enrolled patients for a study of colorectal cancer was hardly cause for excitement. But ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Chinese Pharma
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Decoding The Three Worlds in The LED Industry
Dec 13, 2013Guoqing Tang, China President of LED BU, Samsung, who is also Chairman of SEMI China LED Committee, gives an in depth analysis of the LED industry developments and categorization in this article. Chinese baby boomers born in the 1950s ...
Tags: LED Industry, Lighting
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Ren Has Already Been Dubbed The "$900-Million-Dollar-Man" for His Estimated Net Worth
Aug 27, 2013Former Chinese commodities trader Jerry Ren, who is quietly building a mining empire in the Australian outback, scoffs at talk the resources boom is over. For him its just moved north. As some mining firms clock up billions of dollars in ...
Tags: Mining Boom, Chemicals
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Chinese Acrobatics Has Long Been Used to Promote Cultural Exchanges
May 21, 2013Chinese acrobatics has long been used to promote cultural exchanges between Chinese people and people in other countries. They also played an important role in spreading and developing science and technology in ancient China. Chinese ...
Tags: acrobatics, Sporting Goods
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The Tunic Suit Has Dominated Chinese Fashion for Many Years
Dec 17, 2012The tunic suit has dominated Chinese fashion for many years and is known to Westerners as the "Mao tunic" or "Mao suit". It is a mistake, however, to associate the style with Mao Zedong. For it is called byithe Chinese them-selves ...
Tags: Mao suit, Mao tunic, tunic suit
