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Home is where the art is for Finnish photographer

[2010-03-08 07:58]

Milla-Kariina Oja's latest exhibition explores the boundaries between our public and private spaces

Living with the locals

[2010-03-01 08:15]

Historically, very few Westerners in China have lived among ordinary Chinese people. In old China, most of them resided in exclusive foreign concessions and interacted only with their servants and Chinese officials. In new China, laowai were barred from renting private apartments up through the 1990s and thus led a bubble-like existence in special residential hotels.

Surviving media jungle at Internet age

[2010-03-01 08:15]

As part of China Daily's aggressive strategy to boost its presence at home and abroad, METRO Beijing has just been relaunched with significantly more pages and reporting.

Snow sweeper falls between cracks in Chinese laws

[2010-03-01 08:15]

Laws in China are far from perfect in terms of guarding the interests of vulnerable groups.

Beijing's best-seller lists no open book

[2010-03-01 08:15]

Some publishers build buzz for titles, but numbers aren't exactly binding

Beijing is a treasure trove for secondhand book collectors

[2010-03-01 08:15]

A 1957 edition of Philosopher Zhang Dainian's An Outline of Chinese Philosophy is one of book collector Feng Kechen's favorites among his collection of secondhand books.

Some hard-to-find books prove a tantalizing temptation

[2010-03-01 08:15]

Playwright Shi Hang still gets a thrill when he finds hard-to-find books with provocative titles at street stalls - although the pirate copies are often too flawed to finish.

The American String Quartet concert

[2010-03-01 08:15]

The American String Quartet is widely acclaimed as among the world's best quartets and stands out for its "luxurious, beautifully sculptured performances", as described by the New York Times.

What's on

[2010-03-01 08:15]

Events

Naked ambition

[2010-03-01 08:15]

World-renowned performance artist uses his unique camouflaging style to provoke public thought on life and the world. Wang Ru reports

Painter dabbles in noble works

[2010-03-01 08:15]

Sitting in an antique Chinese chair of sandalwood, Ziwei brewed a pot of Chinese green tea. She moved gently, her tone of voice giving her away as someone of nobility.

Job seekers pounce on openings in Year of Tiger

[2010-02-22 07:44]

As the lunar new year ignites a steady supply of pyrotechnics, so too are the feelings of the city's employees being fired up with the promise of new jobs after the economic crisis.