Can you imagine Richard Wagner's sprawling Ring Cycle without music? Or Lady Macbeth played by a man?
Item from Oct 27, 1984, in China Daily: Joining the top flight ... China's first group of women pilots with college qualifications have a chat before a flying trip. They graduated earlier this month from an aviation institute where they learned to fly both military jets and civil jumbos. They have spent nearly 300 hours in the air.
The Netherlands vowed on Monday to promote free trade and people-to-people exchanges between Europe and China when it assumes the rotating presidency of the European Union next year.
The British pub that President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister David Cameron visited in Buckinghamshire last Thursday has become an overnight sensation.
China has begun to develop its C929 wide-body jetliner as its predecessor, the C919 narrow-body airliner, is about to make its first test flight, according to aviation industry insiders.
A ferry accident in Hong Kong on Sunday night left 124 passengers hospitalized and has prompted new calls for a maritime safety review.
One of China's leading economists has made a strong call for the country's leaders to speed up reforms that have been delayed.
More than 70 percent of Chinese people are not satisfied with their sex lives because of stress and depression, according to the results of a national survey released on Sunday.
When China Daily's Deputy Editor-in-Chief Wang Hao - who was in New York in September to direct coverage of President Xi Jinping's US visit - asked my colleague Chris Davis and me to join the rotation of writers on this page, I thought: "Why not"? I'd be syndicated internationally.
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