One of the 20th century's most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck (1892-1973) was the first person to make China accessible to the West. She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, which,...
About the Woman女孩蔡慧敏Cai Huimin,the twentysomething who is affectionately known as"pearl girl,"is from Qiujia'an,a village best known as the"home of pearls,"in Wenling, Taizhou County,in South China's Zhejiang Pro...
This year, Hong kong celebrates the 10th anniversary of its return to China. Hong Kong, often referred to as a "bright pearl in the East," has drawn worldwide attention since July 1, 1997, when it returned to its moth...
LOCATED by the Yellow River in the west of Henan Province. the city of Sanmenxia sits at the juncture of Henan. Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces. The name of Sanmenxia (Three-Gate Gorge, in Chinese) derives from a beautif...
IN the early 1920s, when Yosif Frantz Rock, an American botanist, traveled to Lugu Lake, he was amazed by its beauty. He said, "It’s the last Place that God creates." Lugu Lake, 2,690 meters above sea level, is situa...
Unearthed from a Liao tomb at Zhangjia Yingzi, Jianping County, Liaoning Province in 1956, this gilded silver crown with double-dragon pattern is 19 cm high and 20.9 cm in diameter. Its shape is suggestive of a mounta...
HE Xiuying is the general manager of the Beihai Pearl Company in a small city by the Gulf of Beibu in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Local people like to call her "Pearl Sister," because they have seen with their o...
THIS cup, unearthed at the site of an aristocrat’s tomb (No. 2 Baoshan Tomb) of the Chu State, was a vessel used during weddings in ancient times. According to the earliest account of the vessel, found in the book Li...