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Chinese museum showcases graffiti in street style

[2019-02-14 07:43]

JonOne, a graffiti artist from New York who now lives in Paris, recently left some secret messages on a street of Shanghai.

When lanterns light up Shanghai

[2019-02-14 07:43]

This year's lantern show at Yu Garden, one of the most renowned tourist sites in Shanghai, has a theme that revolves around family, city and country.

Classic poem gets music video

[2019-02-14 07:43]

A new music video for the song Second Farewell to Cambridge, adapted from Chinese poet Xu Zhimo's famous composition, has been released by the King's College Record Label to mark Lunar New Year.

Mountain moorings

[2019-02-14 07:43]

The band Shanren ("mountain people"), whose members are mostly from Southwest China's Yunnan province, has its music rooted in ethnic tunes.

Cooperation through innovation

[2019-02-13 07:42]

Used plastic bottles become building blocks. Banana stems are turned into handicrafts. And a social-credit system rewards environmentally friendly behavior.

Fudan University forges Southeast Asian partnerships

[2019-02-13 07:42]

Fudan University has signed agreements on a slew of strategic partnerships with Southeast Asian education institutions and government agencies in January to bolster the Belt and Road Initiative through academic cooperation and people-to-people exchanges.

Myanmar's youth get scholarships

[2019-02-13 07:42]

YANGON - The Myanmar-China Friendship Association offered scholarships to 88 high-performing, low-income students from Myanmar on Jan 26.

Designing big days

[2019-02-13 07:42]

Qian Bingjie's dream of a white wedding came true - for her client, that is. The 27-year-old points out the color means purity in the West but has an ominous meaning in China, where it's associated with such events as funerals, and red is preferred for such happy occasions as weddings.

More young people seek to understand romance

[2019-02-13 07:42]

It was "unconventional" to have romantic relationships when Hu Yue was in university in the 1980s. "There was no education about relationships," says the head of the psychological counseling center at Dalian University of Technology in Northeast China's Liaoning province.

Learning to make a business case

[2019-02-13 07:42]

More than 120 students from 23 top universities around the world gathered at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance for a simulated business competition themed "artificial intelligence plus capital markets" between Jan 20 and 22.

Gestures may help students recall new words in Mandarin

[2019-02-13 07:42]

CHICAGO - Students' comprehension of words in a foreign language improves if teachers pair each word with a gesture, even if the gesture is arbitrary and does not represent a word's actual meaning, according to research released by the University of Illinois.

A festival goes global

[2019-02-12 07:24]

Chinese communities around the world welcomed the Year of the Pig on Feb 5, ushering in Lunar New Year with prayers, family feasts and shopping sprees.

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