The Grand Carnival is returning to Shanghai after six years, and it promises to be bigger and better at the Expo Park in Pudong, for 100 days through Oct 30.
If working up a sweat while breezing past along Hong Kong's green slopes is your idea of a fun time, then Circuit 25 (C25) may be your ideal holiday. Davide Butson-Fiori, founder and head trainer of this combination of sightseeing, boot camp and interval training, thinks it's a great way to meet new people while doing something good for your body.
If you knew Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon plays table tennis for a club in New York and professes to love the game, would it change your view of China? Probably not, but it seems like a good beginning.
The instrument sold for 115 million yuan ($23.2 million) at a Beijing auction two months ago. Yet an auction expert still felt it was undervalued. The 1,200-year-old guqin Da Sheng Yi Yin (大圣遗音) or "musical legacy of the sage", was made by the Lei family workshop in the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD).
I've been canned from several jobs, but none involved a meeting with George Clooney, who plays corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham in the movie Up in the Air.
When Paolo Sabbatini Rancidoro is called "an expert of Chinese I-Ching", the artist modestly turns down the title and jokes that "one can't be an expert" of one of the oldest Chinese classics in history.
This is a private museum showcasing a period of Chinese history, and reflecting the attitudes the country as a whole was feeling towards itself, and the world in general. And it has been put together in the basement of an unassuming building in Shanghai.
Everybody's been ragging "Tiger Mom" Amy Chua for so long that it's just not fun anymore. The Wall Street Journal did it. Disgrasian.com did it (recently posting a photo of her daughter Sophia sporting a tiger tattoo for Mother's Day). Even I did it. Meanwhile, Time magazine made Chua senior a cover girl, and all it forgot to add were the tar and feathers.
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