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Folk Artist Recreates Life with Scissors
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| Wearing a red sweater and no make-up, Zhu Manhua, 60, is like any elderly village woman of Yantai, a coastal city in east China's Shandong Province. |
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Rice Relic May Shed Light on Cradle of Paddy Farming
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| Chinese archeologists say relics of ancient rice they have unearthed from a heritage site about 3,500 years from today may shed light on how rice farming started on the country's southwestern plateau. |
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Brochure on Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Issued
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| A brochure on the China Ethnic and Folk Culture Protection Project has been issued to guide the protection of local intangible cultural heritage across the country. |
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Tale of Two Towns by the Yangtze
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| This is a tale of two towns, sort of. One is the 1,700-year-old Dachang Town in Chongqing Municipality, which will be submerged next year by rising waters from the Three Gorges dam project. The other will be a replica -- with buildings dismantled and rebuilt on a new site 5 kilometers away and uphill, literally transplanted. |
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Shang Mirror Reflects High Value
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| A Shang-Dynasty (1600-1100 BC) bronze mirror will add more sparkle to an ongoing exhibition of ancient bronze mirrors in the Shanghai Museum. |
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Southeast China Rediscovers Its Marine Culture
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| Down the ages China's sons and daughters have embarked to the far corners of the world from the coastal province of Fujian. |
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Old Shanghai
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| Shanghai's own Chinatown leaps out at you when you least expect it. Walk down the Bund along the Huangpu River, surrounded by some of the most expensive real estate in the country, hang a left under the shadow of the posh Jin Mao Tower which stands tall directly across the water and duck to avoid the clothes hanging overhead. |
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A Window on China's Past: Imperial Examination System
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| A special exhibition featuring the Chinese imperial examination system, which is on display at the Shenzhen Museum until May 29, provides a special opportunity for city residents to learn more about Chinese culture. |
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Flying Tigers' Spirit Preserved in China: Former US Volunteers
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| About 20 veteran US aviators and their families Friday finished visiting the Monument to the Aviator Martyrs in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and left Nanjing, capital of the east China's Jiangsu Province, for Shanghai. |
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Tibetan Buddhist Scriptures Discovered at Dunhuang
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| A group of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures has been discovered at Dunhuang Database, in northwest China's Gansu Province. |
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