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The instrument sold for 115 million yuan ($23.2 million) at a Beijing auction two months ago. Yet an auction expert still felt it was undervalued. The 1,200-year-old guqin Da Sheng Yi Yin (大圣遗音) or "musical legacy of the sage", was made by the Lei family workshop in the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD).

Downsizing with conscience

[2011-07-10 07:49]

I've been canned from several jobs, but none involved a meeting with George Clooney, who plays corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham in the movie Up in the Air.

The ways of the I-Ching

[2011-07-10 07:49]

When Paolo Sabbatini Rancidoro is called "an expert of Chinese I-Ching", the artist modestly turns down the title and jokes that "one can't be an expert" of one of the oldest Chinese classics in history.

City guide

[2011-07-10 07:49]

Beijing

Preserving propaganda

[2011-07-03 08:29]

This is a private museum showcasing a period of Chinese history, and reflecting the attitudes the country as a whole was feeling towards itself, and the world in general. And it has been put together in the basement of an unassuming building in Shanghai.

Tiger mom's 'apology' lost in translation

[2011-07-03 08:29]

Everybody's been ragging "Tiger Mom" Amy Chua for so long that it's just not fun anymore. The Wall Street Journal did it. Disgrasian.com did it (recently posting a photo of her daughter Sophia sporting a tiger tattoo for Mother's Day). Even I did it. Meanwhile, Time magazine made Chua senior a cover girl, and all it forgot to add were the tar and feathers.

Spinning a real good yarn

[2011-07-03 08:29]

Edith Cheung remembers her first experiment with textiles.

City guide

[2011-07-03 08:29]

Beijing

The swords of yue

[2011-06-26 07:39]

The monument stands proudly in the front yard of the Zhejiang Provincial Museum, a sword piercing through its base of stone, a commemoration of the homecoming of one of the museum's most important exhibits - the Sword of the King of Yue, Zhuji Yushi (越王者旨於睗剑).

Language skills no piece of cake

[2011-06-26 07:39]

What annoyed me the most about Avatar - apart from its lame attempt to go 3-D - was hearing Sam Worthington's character describe learning the language of the Na'vi as something easy and routine. It's just about memorizing words, he says, whereas most adults his age would argue that getting bilingual this late in the day sounds more like the precious mineral they are trying to rid the planet Pandora of: unobtainium.