China's four great inventions (si da fa ming) are the compass, gunpowder, moveable type printing press and paper. But I believe the committee who voted on this list got it all wrong.
When Han Suyin was young, she met a handsome British reporter in Hong Kong. Over the following year, they struggled hard, because the reporter already had a wife.
Many filmmakers are reflecting on the upcoming 70th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, in which about 300,000 Chinese people in the then-capital (known as Nanking) were killed by invading Japanese troops.
The reason why many of our countrymen consider environmental protection to be some idealistic thing divorced from reality is partly because some of our environmentalists are idealistic, bossy, unapproachable and self-centered.
This is not an anti-Japanese film, it is anti-war. So says American director Bill Guttentag when talking about Nanking, a film that shines a spotlight on one of the biggest atrocities of World War II.
Ten Chinese students had the chance to enjoy a barbecue at Bill Gates's home late last month. The lucky guests were selected out of about 300 interns working at the Beijing-based Microsoft Research Asia, a world-class research lab constantly developing cutting-edge of computing technology.
Unlike the golden hues shimmering in Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs, the golden years of a computer are not pretty.
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