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Art on display along Beijing's famed Wangfujing Street.

China's avant-garde artists still shunned by local collectors

Chinese collectors' interest in the country's own contemporary art is so limited that it sometime...

China AFP/Peter Harmsen

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Recipe: Soybean Milk Soup

Serves 4 to 6 4 cups soybean milk 2 tablespoons chopped dried shrimp, soaked for 4 hours, then dr...

China Habeeb Salloum

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The Great American Dharma Bum

Forests are delightful, where more worldly men find no joy. - from the Dhammapada * * * * * Hen...

China / India Kenneth Champeon

Recipe: Nectarine Salad With Ginger Vinaigrette Dressing

Serves 6 to 8 4 tablespoons peanut oil 1/4 cup fresh ginger cut into thin strips 2 tablespoons gr...

China Habeeb Salloum

Travellers wait at Beijing West Railway station in Beijing to catch their trains for the annual trip home to visit relatives in celebration of Chinese New Year.

China's biggest annual people migration begins

Beijing, Jan 19, 2003 - China's busiest travel period of the year has begun with transportation o...

China AFP/Cindy Sui

Four Women in Tibet: The Journey to Everest

Looking for fellow travelers to trek to Everest Base Camp. See April at the Yak Hotel. Two d...

China April Thompson

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Hong Kong's Beatles Bar

Mr. Moonlight, 12/F Henry House, 40-42 Yun Ping Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.

China AFP/Richard A. Brooks

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Hesse's Demi-Buddha

* * * * * Review of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha , Shambala, 2000. * * * * * The story of the Buddha...

China Kenneth Champeon

Schlachttag (Datang, Prefecture Qian Dong Nan, Guizhou province)

Ancient skill of cooling warehouses in Datang village (prefecture Qian Dong Nan, Guizhou province)

Ancient, nevertheless smart technique to cool warehouses in Datang village (prefecture Qian Dong ...

China Tom Ber • www.tomber.de

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China trains guides as tourists flock to mountains

The Siguniang mountains in southwest China's Sichuan province, have become a hotspot for ice clim...

China AFP/Francois Bougon

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Chinese Food - back to basics

With Chinese cuisine headlining the fifth Madrid Fusion gastronomic summit, one of Asia's top che...

China / Singapore AFP/Chris Wright

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Proto-Hippie Fa Hien

As Marcus Aurelius famously reminded us, history has its consolations. "Consider," he writes in h...

China Kenneth Champeon

This was taken on the Dragon River, not far from Yangshuo.

Chinese Reflections

Start I've long been fascinated with reflections, both my own (very narcissistic, I admit) and th...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

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Tea, Tea, Tea! (And Modernity)

* * * * * Review of Kakuzo Okakura's The Book of Tea * * * * * Of tea-drinker and wit par excelle...

China Kenneth Champeon

Laya waterfalls (Guizhou province)

Enchanting Huangguoshu Waterfalls Scenic Area - pictorial Laya cascade (Guizhou)

Scenic Laya cascade in Guizhou province gushes next to a narrow road for about 2.5km.

China www.tomber.de

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It is another weekend, a welcome break after another week that whirled past in a flurry of activi...

China Goh Bee Lian

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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Title: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. Author: Dai Sijie. Translated by Ina Rilke. Publ...

China ThingsAsian Booklist

Street of cook shops and eateries in Guiyang (Guizhou province)

Street of cook shops and eateries in Guiyang (Guizhou province)

Street of cook shops and eateries in Guiyang (Guizhou province)

China www.tomber.de

Possibly the most striking thing about The Art of War , the ancient Chinese military treatise, is...

China Kenneth Champeon

Three-Way Dumplings

Recipe: Three-Way Dumplings

Enjoy your dumplings three tasty ways, with Shrimp-Filled Fried Dumplings, Chicken-Filled Potstic...

China Celeste Heiter

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