Fears of espionage have driven the US government from New York's famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, which has housed presidents and other top American officials for decades but was bought last year by a Chinese firm from Hilton Worldwide, according to The Associated Press.
Five veteran professors from prestigious local universities and seven lawyers who are leading figures in their respective specializations have recently been appointed as the first batch of part-time advisers to Shanghai’s municipal government. These 12 experts, who are on three-year contracts, will provide practical suggestions for the city’s development and add a scientific element to decision-making processes.
On Sept 2, the day of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the New York University (NYU) in Shanghai held a talk to pay tribute to George Ashmore Fitch, an American missionary whose heroic acts helped save tens of thousands of Chinese during the Nanjing Massacre (1937), also known as the Rape of Nanking.
Exhibitions have become a new industry in Shanghai and audiences have demonstrated that they are willing to spend to view well organized art showcases. An exhibition of Monet paintings and sketches in Shanghai last year welcomed 400,000 people in 100 days, setting a record for visitor numbers at a public exhibition in the city. This year, Van Gogh Alive, a multi-sensory digital exhibition that offers visitors a glimpse into the Dutch artist’s ideas and life, attracted 350,000 visitors in 124 days.
Rain has always been a free gift from Mother Nature, but people in Shanghai are now willing to pay 150 yuan ($24) to experience a unique type of downpour — in an exhibition space.
Having style and sophistication is the name of the game in China’s wealthy circles these days as a growing number of people are signing up for etiquette courses as a means of bridging cultural differences and embracing Western values.
As the number of outbound travelers from the Chinese mainland continues to soar, Cathay Pacific as the dominant regional carrier is well positioned to fly with the country’s ambition to travel the world and take off for new growth horizons.
Chi Wang, president of the US-China Policy Foundation, has been collecting Chinese calligraphy and paintings since 1960. A generous sampling from his collection, Ageless Chinese Art, more than half of it calligraphy, just went on display at George Mason University on Thursday.
The Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco awarded medals to two veterans and a representative of a historic overseas Chinese group for their contribution to China's People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression during World War II.
Benjamin Wey, a Chinese-born Wall Street financier, was indicted on Thursday for engineering so-called Chinese "reverse mergers" and then manipulating stock prices to earn millions of dollars in illegal profits.
Seventy-six years ago, Michael Blumenthal, the former US treasury secretary, fled with his parents from Berlin to Shanghai, where he made a living delivering bread.
Sometimes reaching a goal is just the beginning.
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