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Lang Lang gives New Yorkers taste of first all-Chinese album

The ABC of netting millions

Li Xiang, now 25, was never the model son. Skipping classes, refusing to sit the university entrance exam, perennially logged on to the Internet and keeping to the fast lane on the roads and in life.

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Emotional power of 'then' and 'now'

In the past two weeks, Huang Xizhen has visited the Capital Museum three times. Yes, she has a discount pass for the retired, but she was motivated more by wanting to meet someone she didn't know in person but whose work has touched her.

The Wall of two Williams

I first got to know William Edgar Geil not through conscious re-photography, but via coincidental re-photography. He hailed from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and as a missionary explorer in 1907-08 was believed to be the first of any nationality to travel the Great Wall of China from end to end. Unlike most explorer-adventurers of his day, he returned to his home country having taken nothing but photographs.

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Economic partnership on upward swing

China and India, whose economies are growing at a faster rate than any other in the world, have also been strengthening economic and trade relations with each other in recent years.

Bilateral trade to hit $50b in 2010

Sino-Indian bilateral trade has witnessed impressive growth in recent years, and is maintaining the trend.

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How to get to Beiji Village:

Fly to Harbin, capital city of Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China.

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Frozen in time

As my train hurtles northwards, I can see my breath freeze on the window panes. I am heading to the North Pole of China literally, village of the northern pole or "Beiji Village".