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  • Dough figurines showcased at heritage expo in Shandong

    2017-06-08

    The making technique of Yimeng dough figurine has a 100-year-old history and was listed as an intangible cultural heritage last year.

  • 9.4m students sit China's college entrance exam

    2017-06-07

    A total of 9.4 million Chinese students Wednesday began the annual national college entrance examination, known as the Gaokao, which will have a large impact on their futures.

  • 2017 Asia Media Summit opens in Qingdao

    2017-06-07

    The 2017 Asia Media Summit opened in grand style on June 6 in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao.

  • Shandong exhibits Japanese Ukiyoe wood block paintings

    2017-06-06

    An exhibition featuring Japanese Ukiyoe wood block paintings was unveiled on June 1 at the Shandong Museum in the provincial capital of Jinan to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the establishment of friendly relations between Shandong and Yamaguchi Prefecture of Japan.

  • Top cookbooks take a bow

    2017-06-06

    William Wongso seems like a chef in a war zone. Peppered with the pops and splatters of boiling coconut milk, however, Wongso is unfazed and relaxed.

  • Shandong intangible cultural heritage classroom: how to make a Caozhou dough figure

    2017-06-05

    The thirteenth class of the Shandong intangible cultural heritage classroom, led by Mu Xujian, Shandong provincial inheritor and master craftsman of ancient Caozhou (Heze) dough figurines, was held on June 3 at the Shandong Provincial Cultural Center in Jinan, the provincial capital.

  • Yantai - combining legacy and vibrancy along Shandong’s northern coast

    2017-06-05

    ‘Smoke Tower’ (yan tai), a curious name for one of China’s most charming, most fascinating and certainly a very interesting city. Shandong Peninsula’s exposed coastline was targeted by 14th century pirate attacks. Beacon towers erected on hills warned of impending danger. Yantai’s former tower, protected by a small temple, remains today atop a delightful forest park (yantaishan) but now dominated by a tall, working lighthouse - the iconic symbol of this city strategically located where waters of the Bohai Gulf and Yellow Sea merge close to the Korean Peninsula and indeed Japan.