HONG KONG — China’s private jet market is cleared for take-off. The country’s soaring economy is creating a class of wealthy entrepreneurs who have plenty of money to spend on one of the ultimate symbols…
Category: Culture
BEIJING, May 19 — China’s preservation of its cultural relics has come under fire by the public in the wake of a recent theft at a museum in Beijing’s Forbidden City and other misappropriations of…
HENGDIAN, China—A five-hour drive southwest of Shanghai, in the hills near a manufacturing hub, something like a mirage appears among the smokestacks: a full-scale replica of Beijing’s Forbidden City. Welcome to “Chinawood,” the world’s largest…
On May 23, 1951, the central people’s government and the former local government of Tibet signed the Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, also known as the 17-Article Agreement, bringing about the…
An archaeologist cleans the surface of an excavation site at Hujiaying village in Yanqing county on Friday. Photos by Zhang Tao An accidental find on a routine dig on the outskirts of the capital led…
The view from the top of the ancient Drum Tower shows part of the central axis that runs through Beijing. The municipal government is applying for world cultural heritage status for the important corridor. Zou…
Henry Kissinger was not only the first official American emissary to Communist China, he persisted in his brokerage with more than 50 trips over four decades, spanning the careers of seven leaders on each side….
There are MORE THAN 300 types of Chinese operas but two POPULAR varieties are major standouts The Mandarin word for opera is xiqu, which in English means “theater of song”. but this translation does…
“If social order is like an iceberg, then laws, policies and systems are only the part that sticks out of the water, and moral principles are the block below the water. When there is no…
SHENZHEN, Guangdong – While many of China’s universities are advertising to attract attention from college candidates ahead of the annual college entrance examination in June, one university is noticeably absent from a list of colleges…