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"When
I first came to Beijing 30 years ago, there were hardly any
cars. Today, as I stand on the steps to the Great Hall of
the People, I bear full witness to the dramatic changes that
have taken place in 30 years," said Henry Kissinger,
former U.S. secretary of state, prior to the opening of the
16th CPC National Congress....
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The Chinese film Raise
the Red Lantern made the Qiao family courtyard where it
was shot into a famous tourism destination. There are over
4,000 such siheyuan (family courtyards surrounded by rooms)
in the ancient city of Pingyao, just a few dozen kilometers
away. ....
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LI
Zongyi's benign countenance indicates his affinity with Buddha,
and the influence Buddhism has had on him since childhood.
A native of Panjin City, Liaoning Province, Li attended the
Shenyang Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, and after years of hard
work has now attained the "nirvana of perfection."...
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The
Zhenjiang Museum, constructed in 1958, consists of a group
of five East Indian garden style buildings. It houses more
than 30,000 Chinese historical relics, from the Neolithic
Age to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), and over 100,000 ancient
books. Among them are one national treasure, and some 70 first
class national cultural relics.....
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Yao
Dixiong, world famous Chinese Australian painter, went to
live in Australia with his parents in 1979. Twenty years of
hard, exacting, work have won him a place in international
art circles and the epithet as "Prince of Steeds."...
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After
spending half of her life in the U.S., Liu Weiyun has returned
to China and made her home in Beijing. She has, as she puts
it, completed a circle of happiness....
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Incorporating works
of art into modern communities is a recent cultural trend
enthusiastically being followed by Beijing's real estate developers.
Kingdom Garden, a new residential area near Xizhimen, houses
within its community the Today Gallery, China's largest private
art gallery....
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Zhang Zhaobin is renowned
in his Hubei Province hometown of Baokang as the best shadow
play performer of all time. Now 75 years old, he was originally
apprenticed at the age of 12 to shadow play singers in his
village. Adept at storytelling, ballad-singing, dancing, and
also at playing musical instruments, Zhang is the acknowledged
master of his trade throughout the whole of northwestern Hubei
Province. ...
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Many people think of
Wenzhou, whose many small commodities such as lighters, shoes
and locks are well known the world over, as a commercial city.
Shops line its streets, and Wenzhou people have such business
acumen, they are popularly known as China's prize wheeler
dealers. On arrival, however, the traveler discovers that
commercial as it may be, Wenzhou is nonetheless a city of
high culture...
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January
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FOUNDER:
SOONG CHING LING (MME SUN YAT-SEN) (1893-1981). PUBLISHED MONTHLY
BY THE CHINA WELFARE INSTITUTE IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH,
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