There are many ways to record history. Because writing was prohibited in the Mukden camp, the POWs stole paper on which they drew cartoons through which they vividly recorded life in the camp and made scabrous attacks on their Japanese guards.
The first production of Shakespeare in China was staged in 1902, when, in an effort to better understand English history and language, students at Shanghai St. John College put on The Merchant of Venice - in the original language.
William Shakespeare's work has graced the Chinese page and stage for more than a century now, but the enormous breadth of his work has dazzled rather than enlightened when it's transplanted ... until now, writes Raymond Zhou.
Chinese people with no knowledge of the English language found initial access to the Bard through Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare.
Like most members of my generation, I was first exposed to Shakespeare in the late 1970s, when Laurence Olivier's Hamlet was revived on the Chinese screen along with a flood of classics being reintroduced after a decade of absence. Repeated radio airings of the dubbed soundtrack familiarized me with many of the Bard's lines, immortalized by the great Chinese actor Sun Daolin.
Shen Dailu should have spent April 8 celebrating her 20th birthday in the company of family and friends. Instead, the young women from Fenghua in Zhejiang province spent the day in the hospital after the building in which she lived with her grandparents collapsed on April 4.
The collapse of the five-story building in Fenghua, Zhejiang province, attracted nationwide attention to the problem of dangerous buildings. Now, the big question is: Who should pay for their repair and reconstruction?
"Old" apartment complexes occupy core downtown areas in many Chinese cities. Although they were mostly constructed in the 1980s and '90s as the first batch of commercial housing, they are old by Chinese standards.
Rewina Berhe admits that when he left his family in Ethiopia to study in China in 2009, he knew nothing about the country.
While most Chinese honor their ancestors on Tomb Sweeping Day, Tao Ye spent a lot of this year's holiday remembering a classmate from primary school who died of cancer a decade ago.
Ikang Goubin Healthcare Group released a report in 2013, analyzing more than 110,000 health reports that had been collected by the company's centers nationwide.
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