North Carolina native fell in love with China during his 1997 visit BEIJING – Just as many young students, John Gordon was nervous about leaving the comforts of his home to study abroad. The North…
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Jason Tu was exposed to Tibetan culture from an early age, growing up in a little Sichuan town near Tibet Autonomous Region. Starting about 4 years ago, he began to make frequent trips to Tibetan…
A new type of receiver unit, capable of accessing illegal TV programs and with a striking physical resemblance to USB flash drives, has recently made a covert entry into the electronics market in Xi’an, the…
Five footprints, believed to be traces left by the legendary “Shennongjia Wildman,” have been found in Chengkou county, part of Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, according to a report from cqnews.net on Monday. The report says…
MaxMara, Frey Wille, Louis Vuitton and Tod’s created crossover-themed looks. Photos: Courtesy of Marie Claire When the light goes dark, Chinese veteran music talent Zhang Yadong appears on the stage to spin from the…
“Hello comrades!” Chairman Mao bids a traditional Marxist greeting to his audience. “You have worked so hard!” If it’s strange to see the late Mao address a modern-day audience in exotic Hainan Province, it’s because…
When China-themed Hollywood blockbuster “Kung Fu Panda” swept Chinese box offices, many people wondered when Chinese filmmakers would produce an animated film of equal calibre. That day may not be far off: a homegrown kung…
A night in old Beijing can mean dinner in an old hutong courtyard restaurant followed by a couple of hours of traditional crosstalk comedy, a famous form of northern China banter. Despite Beijing’s enormous development…
The Shanghai Expo’s China Pavilion expects crowds to teem through its doors when it reopens on July 12 in the sweltering summer heat. The pavilion will be open to public for three months till October…
East China’s Jiangsu Province has released a collection of historical documents recording the notorious Nanjing Massacre in which more than 300,000 Chinese people were killed by Japanese aggressor troops in 1937. More than 100 experts…