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.
Showing signs of genius even as a young boy, it was perhaps not surprising that Dr Zhang Yaqin would rise to become a right-hand man of the world's most powerful billionaire.
Barefooted teenager Tu Zhiwei was transfixed by the artist who had been invited by village elders to paint a huge picture of Chairman Mao Zedong. Tu asked the man if he could have samples of his paints and went home to mix up new colors. The next day, instead of going to his school, in the remote, mountainous region in South China's Guangdong Province, Tu returned to the artist, set up his own frame, and began painting his own portrait of Mao. The Wengyuan villagers were shocked to see that Tu's portrait was better than the visiting artist.
The Guangzhou businessman was to the point. "I'm not stealing your phone," he assured me. "I'm just not giving it back." Ah, behold the power of semantics. But still, his politician-esque assurances had a very hollow ring.
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