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Updated: 2012-11-16 15:07
(China Daily)
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Promoting business collaboration Maurice Greenburg (right), Chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr & Co., Inc., shares a light moment with Gao Zhansheng, Chinese consul general in San Francisco, while attending the 5th national convention of the Asian American Insurance and Financial Professional Association (AAIFPA) in San Francisco on November 9. As the keynote speaker for the event, Greenberg said American insurance companies should joint venture with Chinese firms in order to introduce new products to Chinese consumers under the regulations of the Chinese government. San Francisco Zhang Qidong / China Daily |
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Enchanting stagecraft Bellevue Mayor Conrad Lee performs tai chi as part of the Chinese musical Enchanting China, Burning Phoenix at the Meydenbauer Center on Friday. The large-scale show employs dance, music, acrobatics, magic, body-painting and other elements. Bellevue, Washington Deng Yu / China Daily |
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Face-changeing art Left: A Chinese artist performs face-changing - a sub-genre of Chinese Sichuan opera - at the closing reception of the New York Forum on World Civilizations in Lincoln Center in New York on Sunday. The forum was hosted by the China Energy Fund Committee, a non-governmental and non-profit think tank registered in Hong Kong. New York Zhang Yuwei / China Daily |
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Food as art Right: Hwang June Jan (right) wins gold medal at the 144th Annual Salon of Culinary Art & Exhibition at Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York on November 12. Jan is congratulated by Thomas Smyth, chairman of the Salon. Jan's elaborate carvings on acorn squashes, as dispalyed on the table. New York Gong Wenmo / for China Daily |
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On board American students play Chinese chess at George Mason University's Confucius Institute on Wednesday after attending a lecture about the game. The institute regularly hosts Chinese cultural activities.Liu Hongyuan / for China Daily |
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Painting to dance Zhang Meifang (third from left), deputy Chinese consul general in Toronto, and Gloria Lo (third from right), director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Canada's biggest city, display a placard for an epic poem dance titled Qingming Shanghe Tu (Along the River During the Qingming Festival) on Nov 13. The piece, which is based on a classical Chinese painting of the same title, will be performed at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in early January, as the finale of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's 15th anniversary celebration in Canada. Also pictured, from left: Stephen Siu, assistant director of the Hong Kong trade office; Hu Xiao, Chinese cultural consul in Toronto; and the Sony Centre's Mark Hammond.Li Na / China Daily |
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Iconic cultural revolution drama reviewed China experts and film critiques attended the screening of The Red Detachment of Women (Hongse Niangzi Jun), an iconic ballet film in the genre of Yangbanxi (revolutionary model dramas), at Freer Gallery in Washington last Sunday. The screening is to commemorate the 40th anniversary of President Nixon's 1972 visit to China. Chas Freeman (left), former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, who served as principal interpreter for president Nixon during his China visit, said he first saw the story performed live as a ballet at the Nationalities Theater in Beijing along with Nixon's delegation and sat behind Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong and director of the performance. Join Freeman are Dr. Carma Hinton, a renowned film maker of a dozen documentaries about China and Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies at George Mason University, and Dr. Chi Wang, President of US-China Policy Foundation and former head of the Chinese section at the Library of Congress. Washington Cai Chunying / China Daily |
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Transportation on table Rod Diridon (left), the "father" of Silicon Valley's public transit system, and Tian Feng, an architect with the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, talk during a panel discussion, California's High Speed Rail: Lessons from Asia, hosted by the Asia Society on Nov 8. The panel assessed transit models in Asia, such as Japan's Shinkansen and systems in South Korea and China to understand how highspeed rail has affected travel, business and livability. Panelists also discussed the feasibility of equipping California with an Asia-style transit network. Chen Jia / China Daily |
Patrick Ho (right), deputy chairman of the China Energy Fund Committee in Hong Kong, and Andrei Abramov, head of the NGO section of the United Nations' Economic and Social Council, talk at the New York Forum on World Civilizations on Nov 11 at the UN headquarters. Over 100 Chinese and Western scholars attended the forum to discuss the relationship between Confucianism and Christianity, and how an appreciation for "shared values" and understanding can transcend national identities and belief systems, thus reducing the possibility of conflict. Zhang Yuwei / China Daily
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