Last year on the National Holiday, I attended the wedding of one of my best friends. The bride and groom, high-ranking 30-somethings in IT companies, dressed elegantly in Western style clothes. Guests who rushed to the French buffet all paused to have their photos taken by a wedding photographer.
On a hot summer's day in August 2006, Lamao Cering crouches in a windy field in Qinghai province repeating "I want to go to school" like a mantra, oblivious to her father's call to come back and tend the sheep.
Danny Wang grew up in a single-parent family, and as it turns out that parent just happens to be particularly successful.
About two years ago 26-year-old animation artist Guo Yuanyuan had a dream of dead ants attacking her. She woke up and realized that it was her urge to be more creative that was biting her.
When our daughter left to study in France she said at the airport: "If you want to know about my life go to MySpace. When we finally found the weblog it added fun and worry to our lives.
To counter the cultural clashes that have threatened China in the past and now hang, like an immense sword, over prospects for peace on Earth, composer Wu Zuqiang works for an expanding cultural tolerance and regards it as the foothold for China to embark on a cultural renaissance.
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