I never know what to order at Chinese restaurants in Beijing. So the first question from friends I dine with is almost always: "Do you take spicy stuff?"
BIKOU, Gansu: Gansu province's southernmost town of Bikou, just 200 km from the Wenchuan county epicenter of the May 12 earthquake, continues to be affected by aftershocks.
Kungfu performances are always a must-see favorite of overseas visitors to Beijing. Poem of Kungfu, now showing at the Poly Theater until the end of June, is the latest offering of this extravaganza.
As a young American diplomat, 37-year-old Nicholas Platt coordinated and accompanied the first American orchestra to perform in China in 1973 after the founding of the People's Republic of China. A year earlier, he had accompanied US President Richard Nixon on the historic trip to Beijing in 1972 that signaled the resumption of relations between China and the US.
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