Kungfu performances are always a must-see favorite of overseas visitors to Beijing. Poem of Kungfu, now showing at the Poly Theater until the end of June, is the latest offering of this extravaganza.
As a young American diplomat, 37-year-old Nicholas Platt coordinated and accompanied the first American orchestra to perform in China in 1973 after the founding of the People's Republic of China. A year earlier, he had accompanied US President Richard Nixon on the historic trip to Beijing in 1972 that signaled the resumption of relations between China and the US.
There can be broken lives and broken dreams, but there can't be broken promises - at least not when the rescue team of the Hong Kong Government Flying Service (GFS) is involved.
A colleague and I left our school in Chengdu on May 15 for Qingchuan county to find out how we could help the children in the earthquake-hit areas. Two teachers from the Ningxia Hui autonomous region joined us the next day. They had covered some 1,000 km on motorbikes, living on a bagful of steamed buns.
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