He Yue had her first exposure to Shakespeare in the late 1980s, when she stumbled across a complete edition owned by an expatriate teacher.
A recent visit to the China Fans Museum and the China Umbrellas Museum ignited a spark in me about the nature of these two traditional hand-held items. Fans are to keep one cool and umbrellas to prevent one from getting wet.
A night on the town in Hangzhou presents a rich array of options. You can go partying at one of the trendy clubs or you can savor a moment of Zen tranquility at one of the traditionally deco-rated teahouses. The easiest choice, though, is to act like a typical tourist and take in one of the long-running shows that combine Las Vegas-style glitz with local legends and folklore.
How do you approach Qiandao Lake? Let me count the ways.
I keep running into Richard Nixon in the most surprising places.
Sitting on a small hill southwest of West Lake is Wansong Shuyuan, or Academy of Ten Thousand Conifers.
Dipu village is a place where you take tea in a pigsty and coffee in a cattle enclosure.
Although China's imports from South Africa have been negatively affected by falling international commodity prices, the long-term prospects for trade and economic cooperation between the two countries remain bright due to their ever-deepening cooperation, said Zhao Zhongxiu, vice-president and trade professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.
The relationship between China and South Africa has never been stronger, and its strategic importance to both sides has been demonstrated by an unprecedented level of mutual political trust, increasingly close international coordination, fruitful pragmatic cooperation and wide-ranging cultural and people-to-people exchanges. Sino-South African trade and economic cooperation has led to a greater convergence of interests, which also reflects the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.
China is expected to play a greater leadership role in promoting global growth and development as it hosts the G20 Leaders Summit on Sunday and Monday, according to an economist at a world's top think tank.
China's presidency of the G20 this year provides a unique opportunity to showcase the nation's growing leadership on the world stage, says a senior UK business leader.
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