Before one of my editors sent me an article on "slash careers", I had known only the Hollywood jargon of "hyphenate" to help describe someone holding concurrent multiple jobs.
Item from March 9, 1987, in China Daily: A 3,000-year-old wine unearthed from a Shang Dynasty tomb in Luoshan county, Henan province, sparked great interest at a recent symposium on China's viticulture and a related exhibition held in the southern coastal city of Shenzhen. The liquid, older than the ancient Roman wine found in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean, may be the world's oldest wine.
Social gatherings to network have become an important part of college life for many students.
China can afford to expand its fiscal deficit this year while reining in risks associated with the overall debt level, Finance Minister Lou Jiwei said on Monday.
When 32-year-old national lawmaker Liu Lei, of the Hezhe ethnic group in Heilongjiang province, met President Xi Jinping on Monday morning, she was surprised by how well he knows her culture.
China is considering plans to make it easier for foreign experts to come and stay, such as offering them five-or even 10-year multiple-entry visas.
Nancy Reagan, the former US first lady who died at the age of 94 in Los Angeles on Sunday, was her husband's greatest supporter and confidante and accompanied him on a trip to China in April 1984, known as the "Panda diplomacy" visit.
When top political advisers and lawmakers gather in Beijing around this time every year, I always follow their discussions of important issues, including those that I wasn't even aware of, such as why much-lauded high-speed trains haven't been moving at full throttle.
Item from March 8, 1984, in China Daily: Polar explorer Li Huamei, the first Chinese woman to travel to the South Pole, plows through the rich ice of Antarctica collecting specimens for research. ...
Many well-educated women complain about gender discrimination in their job search.
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