It's somehow strange that an orchestra has no music director. But yes, the National Symphony Orchestra of China (NSOC) will start its 07/08 season without one.
SHANGHAI: He's chief editor of the largest English Chinese Dictionary (ECD), arguably the most renowned professor of English in China and an expert on Shakespearean studies at the country's leading university of Fudan, but Lu Gusun has never identified with the so-called "elite" and calls himself "grassroots".
Lu Gusun (pictured) was the major compiler and editor of the New English-Chinese Dictionary, first published in the 1970s. The book is still available in the market after several revisions, with 10 million copies sold.
LONDON: Can you imagine lying down at a concert, enjoying your food and soft drink? And you don't need to dress formally - short pants, T-shirts and sandals will do.
To my friends wearing yellow (or blue, or red, or white) hardhats, I say thanks.
The voice of Xu Liping on the other side of the telephone was so weak that some of her words were barely audible. Xu, a 26-year-old lung cancer patient in Tianjin, has been hospitalized for her illness many times.
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