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Source: CRI Published: July 12, 2011 09:39
Jason Tu was exposed to Tibetan culture from an early age, growing up in a little Sichuan town near Tibet Autonomous Region. Starting about 4 years ago, he began to make frequent trips to Tibetan areas, each lasting between 2 weeks and 6 months.
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Source: CRI Published: June 30, 2011 09:25
Eight years ago, Beijing's prime literary hub was a humble café with a library of about 2,000 books. Founder Alexandra Pearson, a resident of Beijing for almost two decades, did most of the groundwork, in the hope of filling a void. "Beijing didn't really have a place for people to get their ...
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Source: CRI Published: June 28, 2011 10:57
Like many other foreigners who come to Beijing, Rachel DeWoskin fell in love with the city. But unlike her compatriots, she learned the facets of Beijing life while starring in a Chinese soap opera. DeWoskin gained notoriety playing the character of Jiexi, an American temptress on "Foreign Babes in ...
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Source: CRI Published: June 28, 2011 10:38
North of the drum tower in central Beijing is a mass of Beijing's most iconic residential neighborhoods, known as the "hutongs" or alleways. Locals, both old and young, stroll the maze of alleyways, dotted with homes and small local convenience stores and restaurants.
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Source: Global Times Published: June 28, 2011 08:38
Hidden in the former French Concession in the now former Luwan district, Shaoxing Road is one of the most "literate" streets in Shanghai, housing the city's most famous publishing houses including Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, Shanghai People's Publishing House, and Shanghai Au...
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Source: Shanghai Daily Published: June 27, 2011 10:18
One of China's four sacred mountains (along with Wutai Mountain in Shanxi Province, Emei Mountain in Sichuan Province and Jiuhua Mountain in Anhui Province), Mt Putuo rises on an island in the East China Sea and has been a pilgrimage site for 1,000 years.
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Source: Global Times Published: June 24, 2011 21:02
It's hard to forget the awe and wonder I felt as I flew towards Nepal and looked out my airplane window to the mighty Himalayan range: as far as my eye could see, majestic white mountains rose from soft beds of clouds, poked towards the stratosphere and dominated the entire landscape with their beau...
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Source: Global Times Published: June 17, 2011 23:53
The Chinese mainland boasts approximately 14,500 kilometers of seaside, on a global scale not a staggering number by any means (New Zealand's is longer), but one ripe with drama, from an environmental, economic and purely human standpoint, along which the ports of call churn mightier and mightier wi...
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Source: Global Times Published: June 17, 2011 14:29
Hutong fans are always looking for interesting things to see on their tours, but sometimes in the midst of interesting stores or fascinating people, the original quiet atmosphere of an old lane falls by the wayside.
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Source: Global Times Published: June 13, 2011 15:28
Typically, hutong are lanes formed by rows of siheyuan courtyard houses arranged one after the other on either side of the path. But as more and more hutong are gradually changing in style, it is getting harder and harder to identify one from its current appearance.
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