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Reflect

Eastern flavor, international style

[2014-02-17 07:24]

Since 1993, when her "East Meets West" collection at New York's Fashion Week landed her the cover of Women's Wear Daily, Vivienne Tam has explored links between Chinese and Western aesthetics.

Beach brouhaha is only natural

[2014-02-15 08:05]

While the rest of China is shrouded in winter cold, the southern tip of Hainan Island is bathed in summer heat. That's why people from the bleak north flock to cities like Sanya. A few of the visitors got so carried away by the welcoming sun that they started skinny-dipping or lying on the beach in their birthday suits.

IT workers in US seek Mandarin

[2014-02-15 08:05]

Employees at Oregon-based IT company CollegeNET now have the opportunity to learn more about China and study Mandarin at the Confucius Institute at Portland State University.

Taste of Oz

[2014-02-15 08:05]

David Laris presents laid-back and contemporary dining in vintage Australian style, Donna Mah discovers.

Bites of heaven by way of Havana

[2014-02-15 08:05]

I have a pash for Cuban food. Some of my Cuban friends (yes, Americans have Cuban friends) joke that it reflects my guilt over the Bay of Pigs and the now - pathetic US embargo of that lively tropical island.

A question of taste: What do Chinese want to drink?

[2014-02-15 08:05]

Everyone wants to sell wine to China, says Grape Wall of China blogger Jim Boyce. "But they spend little effort to find out what Chinese people want."

St. Regis on the river

[2014-02-15 08:05]

There are many elegant hotels in Tianjin, but only one has the advantage of a patio right on the banks of the Haihe River. Xu Lin visits the St. Regis and experiences life on the right bank.

Hotel Roundup

[2014-02-15 08:05]

APPOINTMENTS

Call it a restaurant for employees, not a canteen

[2014-02-15 08:05]

One of the grimmest realities confronting those in the hospitality industry is reconciling themselves to the stark contrast between the food they serve guests and the food they get served.

Small stage, big role

[2014-02-14 07:20]

The crackdown on wasteful government spending has monkey-wrenched the performance market, causing a 20 to 30 percent shrink in its size as large numbers of government-backed shows face the chopping block. But there is a silver lining to this cloud of austerity. Plays (the spoken kind) have seen a 10-percent increase in market share as the upward trend continues in the past year. In Beijing, plays added up to 5,000 to 6,000 performances in 2013. Of this number, 3,600 to 3,700 were presented in small theaters. The genre eluded the bust because audience members paid for their seats, vis-a-vis singing-and-dancing shows that were disproportionately supported by institutional buyers. Better yet, most of these theatergoers come from the enviable demographic ranging from ages 20 to 40.

Editor's picks

[2014-02-14 07:20]

German orchestra visits capital

Liu Wei's London show Density packed with vim

[2014-02-14 07:20]

In the winter of 2008, visitors entering the Saatchi Gallery in London for the exhibition The Revolution Continues: New Art from China were immediately met with the installation Love It! Bite it! The incredibly detailed work by Beijing-born artist Liu Wei, was a precarious-looking mini metropolis of the West's most iconic buildings-the Guggenheim, the Colosseum, the US Capitol-and it was made entirely out of dog chews. These were, after all, the "tastiest bits" of Western culture.