Shining some light on oil lamps
2011-04-26 07:55:41
Pollution control and energy conservation may be the buzzwords of the 21st century, but hundreds of years ago, the Chinese seemed to know a thing or two about them.
Odds and ends are more than just nostalgia
2011-04-25 07:59:29
Vintage is becoming the name of the game in the Gulou area with a host of vintage stores selling mostly retro clothes and items from the 1970s and 1980s springing up on the back of Beijing's music scene.
Revival on stage
2011-04-24 08:07:26
Many cultural icons are fading away as modern generations find other distractions. But Peking Opera is now enjoying a revival.
Need to impress? Zip out an avatar
2011-04-24 08:05:55
You'll sit at three-dimensional virtual meetings and classes, looking around the table or the lecture hall at your colleagues' avatars.
The ukulele's untrained melody
2011-04-24 08:05:55
Not long ago the ukulele was an endangered species, seen as cheap exotica or a comic prop.
Sauropods, grazing their way to gigantic
2011-04-24 08:05:25
No dinosaurs were quite like the sauropods. They were the biggest land animals ever, consuming everything in sight.
Classic tale retold
2011-04-23 05:38:51
Composer Zhou Long's Pulitzer for an opera version of a Chinese legend caps decades of efforts to bridge the cultures of East and West.
60s celebrity culture from a dog's point of view
2011-04-22 08:03:01
Andrew O'Hagan slipped into the role of the famed American art dealer, Leo Castelli, quite effortlessly at the Bookworm International Literary Festival in March. O'Hagan.
Peering from the shadows
2011-04-22 08:03:01
Writer Fang Fang's The View (1987), about the brutish struggle of an illiterate docker's family in the poorest area of Wuhan, narrated by its deceased baby protagonist, was eerily reminiscent of French poet Charles Baudelaire's The Voice, published in 1857.
No escape from the abyss of life
2011-04-22 08:03:01
"All misfortunes are alike, but every happiness is unique," Liu Liu writes in her latest work, The Marriage of Miss Su, a collection of 12 short stories.
In the zone
2011-04-21 07:53:02
The transformation of 798 Art Zone from a village into an internationally famous center of art reflects the country's rise.
Retiree weaves new career with knots
2011-04-20 07:56:50
Liu Liming's love of Chinese knots has bound her to a craft that has been listed as part of the nation's intangible cultural heritage for the past 20 years.