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Li Hong Yan (C) from the Mei Lanfang Peking Opera Company rehearses 'a Pearl on Rainbow Bridge' at the Sydney Opera House. Following recent sell-out tours to Europe and the USA the company of over 40 extraordinary artists from Beijing will perform in Australia (in 2003) for the first time ever during it's 80 year history presenting three shows only at the Sydney Opera House.

A story told with photos.

China AFP

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Eighteenth-century merchant ship is reborn

Gothenburg, Sweden, Jan 21, 2003 - The smell of wood-chips fills the air as workers using traditi...

China AFP/Jean Liou

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General The Man in Seat 61 . Train travel and schedules for most countries of Asia (and the world...

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Forest in the river (Guizhou province)

Forest in the river (Guizhou province)

A walk rough the "forest in the river" is like living in a damp biotope.

China www.tomber.de

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A Room of His Own

When Gao Xingjian became the first Chinese to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, English-speakin...

China Kenneth Champeon

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Finding a Spouse in China

BEIJING, June 28, 2005 - During her visit home for Chinese New Year, Gan Xiaoge's parents lined u...

China AFP/Cindy Sui

Soul, Searching

Review of Pico Iyer's The Global Soul, describing Hong Kong and Japan among other Asian locales.

China / Japan / India Kenneth Champeon

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Go East, Young Man. Go East.

Review of Yasunari Kawabata's The Master of Go.

China Kenneth Champeon

Photo of the Day Archive for January 2005

Photo of the Day Archive for January 2005

China Albert Wen

Kui Xing Pagoda, Confucius temple.

Photo of the Day Archive for November 2004

Photo of the Day Archive for November 2004

China Albert Wen

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China on the Web

China Today . This is a comprehensive database on all things China. Categories include diplomatic...

China ThingsAsian

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Lunar New Year celebrations across Asia

BEIJING, Jan 22, 2004 - Today Asia celebrates its most important holiday, the Lunar New Year, wit...

China / Vietnam / Indonesia AFP

Photo of the Day Archive for October 2004

Photo of the Day Archive for October 2004

China Albert Wen

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From Victoria Peak to Stanley bay, the names of Hong Kong's most famous sites resonate with its 1...

China AFP/Mark McCord

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Saving Chinglish

A lot of Chinglish ... carry a certain Chinese notion in them which enriches the English language...

China AFP/Peter Harmsen

Fur-capped little man in Hemu village, Kenas. Xinjiang province, China.

Photo of the Day Archive for April 2005

Photo of the Day Archive for April 2005

China Albert Wen

The Road Less Travelled

The driver of our longtail boat cut the engine, pointed at our backpacks and then at the building...

China / Cambodia / Vietnam Danyael Halprin

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