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Step back in time

Qingdao, in Shandong province, is a beautiful seaside city, no doubt about it. However, many locals say that if visitors don't take a walk on its stone steps, they can't say they have really been there.

Getting there

Lying on the south coast of the Shandong Peninsula, Qingdao is directly served by air or passenger train services, making it easily accessible from any of the major cities.

See you at the 'aobao'

There is a famous Mongolian folk song Aobao Xianghui (Let's Meet at the Aobao) that most Chinese people can sing. The song describes a young fellow waiting anxiously for his girlfriend beside an aobao on a moonlit night.

Thais to the motherland in Bangkok

About one in 10 Thais claim Chinese ancestry, and today, Bangkok's Chinatown is the site of their umbilical ties to the motherland.

Special Report

Martial arts for information age

An academy lying in the foothills of west Beijing may not catch the eyes of passers-by, but it is a must-visit for many countries' military leaders, including United States former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld and chief of the US Pacific command Timothy Keating.

Driving force behind China's key arms document

One of China's premier military strategists possesses an intellectual depth that belies his diminutive stature.

Life Pulse

History in the making

Two people are important in Adam Williams' life, or to be more exact, why he chose to write and how he wrote it.

Sinophile's novel perspective

When Williams says that he has drawn on the Chinese people he had dealings with in his business life to create his characters, I believe he has also drawn on the continuation of personality between his forefathers and himself, and the same is true with people around the world.