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.
Edith Cheung remembers her first experiment with textiles.
The monument stands proudly in the front yard of the Zhejiang Provincial Museum, a sword piercing through its base of stone, a commemoration of the homecoming of one of the museum's most important exhibits - the Sword of the King of Yue, Zhuji Yushi (越王者旨於睗剑).
What annoyed me the most about Avatar - apart from its lame attempt to go 3-D - was hearing Sam Worthington's character describe learning the language of the Na'vi as something easy and routine. It's just about memorizing words, he says, whereas most adults his age would argue that getting bilingual this late in the day sounds more like the precious mineral they are trying to rid the planet Pandora of: unobtainium.
The smell hits you even before you see the giant earthen jar that advertises the brewery. The sharp, sweet, slightly musty aroma of good shaoxing wine commandeers the breeze and leads the visitor straight to the entrance arch decorated with thousands of shards of old wine bottles.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263 Registration Number: 20100000002731 
Raymond Zhou
Op Rana
Berlin Fang
Zhu Yuan
Huang Xiangyang
Chen Weihua
