Australia intends to significantly increase its Chinese visitors following the China-Australia Year of Tourism on Feb 5. The incentives are in addition to the recently introduced enticements for Chinese to visit Oz, such as increased flights, 10-year visas and a Chinese-language online visa-application system. China is Australia’s most valuable inbound-tourism market, with Australia’s tourism authority […]
Numerous top-tier artworks from China, ranging from Dunhuang frescoes to painting masterpieces from ancient Chinese history, have passed through Qiu Jinxian’s hands in her past 29 years at the British Museum. “I am supposed to carefully and meticulously treat precious cultural relics, and strive to possess the magic hands to rejuvenate the paintings, just like […]
The question “What are the most typical examples of Chinese architecture” drove Pu Xiaoyi, who studied architecture in Canada and the United States, on a year-long project investigating in depth the myriad types of Chinese vernacular building styles throughout the country. She explored such structures as yaodong (窯洞), or cave houses in Shaanxi; the Hakka […]
On the 15th day of Chinese New Year, a tranquil city in southwest China’s Sichuan province lights up for the traditional lantern festival. Located about 200 kilometers southeast from the provincial capital city Chengdu, Zigong made its name for salt well drilling and paleontological discoveries. It takes about three hours to get to Zigong from […]
The Jingtai area of the Great Wall, built during the Ming Dynasty in 1599, is at risk of being swallowed up by farmland. Stretching over 90 kilometers, sections in Gansu were largely built using soil and earth, unlike eastern parts of the Great Wall in Beijing and Hebei, which were mostly constructed using stones and […]
Did you know that the popular classic Chinese New Year song “Gong Xi Gong Xi” was never intended as part of greeting a happy Chinese New Year? Chen Gexin, a native of Shanghai and one of the most accomplished songwriters and composers at the time, wrote the song to celebrate China’s victory and liberation following […]
A large cluster of boat coffin tombs dating back 2,200 years was discovered at a construction site in Feihu Village, Pujiang County in southwest China’s Sichuan Province in September last year. Pujiang County was part of the Shu Kingdom, which has no written record of its history. Chinese archaeologists said the latest discovery will help […]
Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang (周有光), who created the writing system using letters from the Roman alphabet to turn Chinese characters into words, died in Beijing on Jan. 14. He was 111. Zhou changed the way the language was taught and helped raise literacy rates. Born on Jan. 13, 1906 during the Qing Dynasty, Zhou worked as […]
Theo & Philo artisan chocolates are 100 percent Philippine-made: the founders are Filipinos, the ingredients are sourced from Filipino farmers, and the factory hires locals to handcraft quality chocolate bars in the tradition of the highest quality chocolates in the world. The chocolates use cacao from Davao and sugar from Bacolod. Founder Philo Chua’s welcome message […]
Chinese and German archaeologists believe they have found images of what appears to be Arabian horses on some 2,000-year old cliff paintings in the Yinshan Mountains of North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region. Over 10,000 ancient cliff paintings have been found in the Yinshan Mountains. Wu Jiacai, director of the North China Institute of Cliff […]