Having spent five years in Ukraine and Russia eating pelmeni (a kind of jiaozi) and vareniki(dumplings), teaching English sometimes, teaching dance a lot and lecturing about the privatization of theater and intellectu...
This year is the 100th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s birthday. Yuan Xikun, a famous portrait master, spent 180 days painstakingly creating the statue of DengXiaoping, the great man of the century. And in this way, h...
Penetrating forests and crossing snowy landscapes remind me of Sea of forest and land of snow (Lin hai xue yuan), An epic and heroic movie that I cannot seem to get out of my mind. During this year’s Spring Festival ...
A total of 89.99 million people travelled across China during the National Day holidays from 1 to 7 October, 11.5 per cent more than last year. More than 34.6 billion yuan (US$ 4.2 billion) was spent by tourists.
ack home in Scotland I was a ’weekend mountaineer’ -most weekends were spent climbing mountains and experiencing the great outdoors. Compared to China Scotland’s mountains are small (mostly under 1000 metres high)....
A retired teacher who has spent many years in China, travelling, working and living here and who now tells people about his discoveries through the columns of Chinaweek, and in Britain by many well-attended public lec...
Beijing, May 14, 2002-In support of a city-wideeffort to make Beijing greener and cleaner, the en-tire staff at Boeing China’s Beijing office, somefriends and spouses spent May 10 planting trees atnearby Chaoyang Par...
On July 13,2001, Moscow. After two rounds of vofe from the members of International OlympicCommittee, Beijing finally won the direction authority of the 29th Summer Olympic Games in year 2008.