Seven years ago, Sous-Chef Frank Zhang was faced with a savory challenge. He and his team of four were handed a "Black Box" filled with, among other things, 10 apples, five beets, two onions, demiglass, a square of cream cheese, balsamic vinegar, two lamb legs - the ingredients for a three-course Western-style meal.
China's best young pianists will receive expert instruction from the world's best musicians at a new academy to open Beijing next year.
Jin Menghui looks tired. The label manager for China's biggest independent record company, Modern Sky, has just returned from Shanghai where a few of his bands played. The show, he says, was mildly successful but as opposed to Beijing, "Shanghai is not really a rock town". Jin has a reputation for working long hours and in a previous interview, he saw the reporter to a cab at 11pm before returning to run yet more tasks.
"Alan Chan is to the design world what Jackie Chan is to action movies," says a Hong Kong magazine. And they certainly have a point.
AMSTERDAM: The foundation that runs the tiny historical Dutch village of Bourtange announced it received an extraordinary 17th-century Dutch translation of Antiquities of the Jews by 1st century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (AD37-100).
On Agugust 1st 1954, a female PLA soldier's photo was published by the newspaper Vlasta of Czechoslovakia on the front page in its coverage of a cultural exchange event between the two countries. The soldier, Tian Hongsheng, in PLA's 1950s style summer uniform and skirt, a chorister from the Ensembles of Song and Dance of the General Political Department of the PLA, was then taking part in a party with the army of Czechoslovakia in a cultural park in Prague. The 1950s style uniform was designed by the General Logistics Department of the PLA in December 1948 and it became popular later among Chinese girls. In the picture, Tian Hongsheng, who cherishes the newspaper even today, wears the Liberation War Badge and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea Badge on her chest.
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