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Community is the killer app

[2017-01-11 07:37]

I have played with several virtual reality systems over the last few years, but just recently bought my own PlayStation VR headset for my family.

解码中国文化的“大家小书”

[2017-01-11 07:37]

北京大学哲学系叶朗、朱良志两位教授合著的《中国文化读本》(Insights into Chinese Culture)是一本常看常新的好书。因其内容精炼，不到400页的体量，被称为“大家小书”。

Current quotes

[2017-01-11 07:37]

"Humans developed games over thousands of years－but computers now tell us humans are fallible."

Big stage for Western artists

[2017-01-10 07:51]

The year gone by has witnessed many solo shows by influential Western contemporary artists in China as the Chinese appetite for art has increasingly become more global.

After decades of slights, Cuban painter tastes fame at 101

[2017-01-10 07:51]

Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera has been painting for decades. And painting. And painting. At age 89, she finally sold something.

As you read this, Chinese chefs somewhere are preparing tubers of Gastrodia elata for a healthy, warming soup. The rhizomes of this leafless orchid (tian ma in Chinese) are valued in traditional medicine for treating headache, stress and fatigue - and traditionally for convulsions such as epilepsy.

Say cheese! Oxford slices story of ancient food

[2017-01-10 07:51]

Cheese is far more than something slapped on a sandwich or sprinkled on top of a pizza, according to a new reference book edited by a Vermont professor.

Eat beat

[2017-01-10 07:51]

BEIJING

Remembering a pioneer

[2017-01-10 07:51]

'Poetry is about life. So it is with design," said Lei Guiyuan (1906-89), the father of Chinese modern design. Lei, who heralded the modernization of Chinese design, founded the country's first designers group, the Shanghai Industrial Artists Association, in 1934.