The Jiankou section of the Great Wall is undoubtedly the most precipitous part of the world wonder in Beijing.
If you are in Beijing for a short holiday, a visit to the suburbs will enhance your travel experience with its natural beauty, its historical sites and its distinctive delicacies.
Award-winning graphic designer Liu Yang tours China with her pocket series on connections, Mei Jia reports.
How Israeli Sinologist Yuri Pines got into Chinese studies is the stuff of movies: His initial understanding of China was different, but he developed an interest in Chinese philosophy while in prison near Haifa, Israel. And, his early readings on China were in Russian.
Toa Dobunshoin, founded by Meiji-era politician Konoe Atsumaro in Shanghai in 1901, was called a Japanese "educational institution for Chinese studies" but its real purpose became clear later.
Songyang does not even have a taxi. Located in Lishui, Zhejiang province, the county of 240,000 population is an exception in East China.
A 15th-century qinghua (blue-and-white) stem bowl that was meant for the sacrificial rituals of Chinese emperors will go under the hammer at Christie's sale in Hong Kong on Nov 30.
By 9 o'clock every morning, 55-year-old Hu Xiuxia has been sitting on a small stool and peeling off white seeds from a pomegranate-like plant for almost three hours.
There's an old Italian superstition about spilling wine: If that happens, you should immediately dab a little behind your ears, like perfume, for good luck.
"Imagine," he says as we stroll through his Beijing design studio, Defacto. "You get up in the morning and your 3-D printer/oven has already created your custom breakfast bar. It's made for your taste and for your body's needs, because you did a saliva scan before you went to bed. So your oven knows if you have a hangover, or you're low on certain minerals. It also knows if you're spending the morning at the gym or sitting in an office."
The day after they registered their marriage in Tokyo on Oct 25, 1915, the great revolutionary Sun Yat-sen who died in 1925, and the late Soong Ching-ling signed a pledge.
In June, Beijing-based artist Qiu Zhijie and his students of experimental art from the Central Academy of Fine Arts staged a live performance at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Arts.
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