East or West, home is best. Two parallel exhibitions at the Beijing World Art Museum show the similarities and differences in how Chinese and Western interior furnishing bring dwellers comfort and security.
While planners and decorators are gathering horse images as the Chinese New Year approaches, nine young designers at China Post are a year ahead of the game. They've just finished a competition to create stamps for the Finnish autonomous region of Aland, an archipelago of 6,500 islands famous for an endemic breed of sheep.
It was in the later years of the 1990s, and beef hotpot restaurants were catching on in popularity in Beijing. Si Guiquan was working as a butcher at a slaughterhouse that offered meat processing services to some of the capital's most popular restaurants.
Standing in front of 10 blind children in a small lecture-room, CaiCong instructs them step-by-step how to take a photo without seeing an object.
In the 1960s, when China's economy was strictly centrally planned, Hainan's thousands of hectares of coffee orchards were State owned. No one could pick coffee cherries without permission - except the birds.
Zhang Zhuo says whenever she attends a friend or relative's wedding, she adores the bride's makeup and dress. Like most girls, she loves beauty. But the junior college student from a poor family in Hongdou village, Shifang city in Sichuan province, could not afford expensive cosmetics. Every morning, she simply paints her lips and eye brows facing a small mirror in her dorm at Polus International College, at suburban Chengdu.
The ancient city of Jiaohe had archaeologists stumped. Why were the older relics found near the Earth's surface, while more recent artifacts were buried far below? Yu Fei of China Features explores the city that went underground.
Career success is defined mostly by compensation: Recruitment survey
The Chinese younger generation, growing up at a time when the economy is more open than in their parents' day, has a more entrepreneurial spirit.
A photo taken 22 years ago made ripples in the tranquil life of Chen Xiaolu in Dalian.
One of Guo Yili's favorite things was walking around Lhasa, capital city of the Tibet autonomous region, where he had served as a soldier and then commander of the People's Armed Police Forces in Tibet for 38 years.
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