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China's leaning towers face moment of truth

The firm of Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) won an international competition in 2002 to...

China AFP/Charles Whelan

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Recipe: Chicken with Ginseng

Serves from 4 to 6 A very tasty and healthy dish. 2 lbs. chicken cut into medium pieces 4 Tbs. ch...

China Habeeb Salloum

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Hesse's Demi-Buddha

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

China Kenneth Champeon

Recipe: Fish and Scallops

Serves 6 to 8 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 tablespoon ginger sauce 1/2 cup finely chopped onions 1 p...

China Habeeb Salloum

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An Incurable Romantic

Several centuries ago Western natural philosophers made a remarkable discovery. It is called the ...

China Kenneth Champeon

The Pull of the Rails

The driving click-clack of wheel-on-rail becomes a dull thrum at 120 kilometers per hour. China's...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

A Will For The Wall

So when exactly are we going to get to the Wall? I hesitated to ask my Swedish traveling partners...

China Nolan Webb

Feng Mengbo Got Game!

Feng Mengbo , Beijing computer-games-artist extraordinaire, is missing. He has yet to show up for...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

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

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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

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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

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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Culture shock: Getting a Chinese driver's licence

On taking China's written driver's licence exam...

China AFP/Pascale Trouillaud

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A Street Artist in China

This 21-year-old "foot artist" earns a living in the streets of Beijing...

China AFP/Frederic J. Brown

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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...

Singapore / China AFP/Chris Wright

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Chicken or Beef?

As I sat aboard the flight to Beijing, I quickly became engrossed in my book. There was a flutter...

China Tara Russell

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Before the Asian financial collapse of 1997, one often heard that Asia would soon overtake the Un...

China Kenneth Champeon

Foreign students in front of the Chinese language learning center at prestigious Beijing University.

Foreign Students in China

China is expecting a record number of students to enrol in its universities this year as foreigne...

China AFP/Robert Saiget

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China's 1,000 Year Old Court Music

BEIJING, Aug 16, 2005 - Tears streamed down Kong Hongli's cheeks as she stood on stage along with...

China AFP/Verna Yu

Book Review: Odyssey Guidebooks China Series

Beijing and Shanghai: China's Hottest Cities Peter Hibbard, Paul Mooney & Steven Schwankert Yangz...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

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