See you at the 'aobao'

There is a famous Mongolian folk song Aobao Xianghui (Let's Meet at the Aobao) that most Chinese people can sing. The song describes a young fellow waiting anxiously for his girlfriend beside an aobao on a moonlit night.

Thais to the motherland in Bangkok

About one in 10 Thais claim Chinese ancestry, and today, Bangkok's Chinatown is the site of their umbilical ties to the motherland.

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Martial arts for information age

An academy lying in the foothills of west Beijing may not catch the eyes of passers-by, but it is a must-visit for many countries' military leaders, including United States former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld and chief of the US Pacific command Timothy Keating.

Driving force behind China's key arms document

One of China's premier military strategists possesses an intellectual depth that belies his diminutive stature.

Life Pulse

History in the making

Two people are important in Adam Williams' life, or to be more exact, why he chose to write and how he wrote it.

Sinophile's novel perspective

When Williams says that he has drawn on the Chinese people he had dealings with in his business life to create his characters, I believe he has also drawn on the continuation of personality between his forefathers and himself, and the same is true with people around the world.

Calls from a cousin, sleepless in Vienna

Each time I get a call from a strange number, I know it is from my cousin. At 26, he has been living in Europe for five years. He went there to study, supporting himself with part-time jobs. He has opened a small shop and says he sells cosmetics.

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Brother and sister act

"Angel and Wolf" thrilled some 20,000 people at Taipei Stadium in 1988, the province's first open-air concert. Since then "Angel" Chyi Yu, and her brother, Chyi Chin (called the "Wolf from the North") have arguably become the most popular sister-brother act on China's pop music scene.