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Foodpanda-style service existed in China ten centuries ago

From a single ancient scroll painting, shown in part below, historians discovered three items of food history the Chinese may have pioneered: the three-meals-a-day tradition, the hot food delivery service, and the drive-in cafe. Emily Zhou reports. THE CHINESE HABIT of painting large, hyper-detailed landscapes on giant scrolls has been a boon for historians. And…

ByEmily ZhouApril 6, 20220Comments

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Online access to Tang Dynasty art classics

SOME OF THE GREATEST classic art in the region came from the Tang Dynasty -- extraordinary murals, capturing life more than a thousand years ago. Click here to join a virtual journey which takes you back in time into the heart of Chang’an, the biggest city in the world at that time. The video…

ByH.C. LuApril 4, 20220Comments

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Suhanya Raffel: Hong Kong’s visual art revolution

An Englishman's visit to a Guangdong village brickmaker led to the creation of a piece of art about China's people and the future of the world For years considered a cultural desert, Hong Kong now aims to be a world leader in appreciation of the arts Having overtaken London as an art investment hub, the…

ByNury VittachiMarch 28, 20220Comments

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Taste slow-cooked lamb in the Altay Mountains to rise up to heaven

Image above shows Kazakh horse meat sausage. Image by Marco Verch/ ccnull YOU THINK YOU KNOW Chinese food? Adventurous young Chinese foodies are heading into the cold, remote highlands of the western region to find delicious new flavors. The bad news is that sometimes you have to decide which of your four-legged friends is…

ByEmily ZhouMarch 24, 20220Comments

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Death-defying risks for a cup of tea

When the civil war of China ended in 1949, Tibetans carried bags of silver dollars on a long journey along a thousand-year old path through the mountains on an important mission: to ensure their tea supply. Emily Zhou reports THE PEOPLE OF TIBET and the surrounding high-plateau lands had a problem. They needed tea.…

ByEmily ZhouMarch 21, 20220Comments

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Sorry, cafe society, tea-drinkers are still ahead

CHINA’S NATIONAL DRINK, tea, is the most popular drink in the world. More of it consumed than all the cappuccinos, lattes and espressos in the world. At least one study says more tea is drunk than all other drinks put together -- coffee, fizzy drinks, wine, beer, juice and everything else. The daily number of…

ByH.C. LuMarch 21, 20220Comments

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Suzhou’s eternal gardens touch the soul

IN APRIL OF 1977, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was taken on a visit to one of the many legendary classical Chinese gardens of Suzhou. The one chosen for her was called The Garden of the Futility of Politics. The extraordinary name surely stuck in the British leader's mind--particularly as she would go on to…

ByH.C. LuMarch 15, 20220Comments

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Her message of love was received 40 years too late

A classic poem about of a couple destined for each other, but cruelly kept apart by time and circumstances, is still popular 1000 years after it was written AMONG THE FEW Chinese musical pieces well known on international stage is “Butterfly Lovers” (梁祝), composed by He Zhanhao (何占豪) in 1958. But the composer created many…

ByEmily ZhouMarch 14, 20220Comments

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Landscapes filled with quiet messages

CHINESE ART IS ONE of the oldest continuous visual styles in the world. It is instantly recognizable, whether the painting was created today or a thousand years ago. And the most extraordinary genre of Chinese art is landscape painting, known as Shan shui (山水), literally meaning "mountains and rivers". For more than 1500 years, Chinese artists…

ByH.C. LuMarch 10, 20220Comments

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Mi Yue: The extraordinary life of a lowly concubine

It seemed unlikely that the teenage girl would achieve anything in her life: but fate would take her to the top of the ladder Yet even when she was the most powerful woman in the land, she faced an impossible decision, asked to prove her loyalty by killing the man she loved Two thousand years…

ByEmily ZhouMarch 7, 20220Comments

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Foodpanda-style service existed in China ten centuries ago

Online access to Tang Dynasty art classics

Suhanya Raffel: Hong Kong’s visual art revolution

Taste slow-cooked lamb in the Altay Mountains to rise up to heaven

Death-defying risks for a cup of tea

Sorry, cafe society, tea-drinkers are still ahead

Suzhou’s eternal gardens touch the soul

Her message of love was received 40 years too late

Landscapes filled with quiet messages

Mi Yue: The extraordinary life of a lowly concubine

Now Europeans move to support China peace plan

How Donnie Yen is quietly educating Hollywood

Strong performance in the past, good prospects ahead