Although parks of all sizes and types exist at any level, the national parks, in particular, tend
What should
Chinese cultural elements commemorating (纪念) Tang Xianzu,
Tang and Shakespeare were contemporaries and both died in 1616. Although they could never have met, there are common
A statue commemorating Shakespeare and Tang was put up at Shakespeare’s Birthplace Garden in 2017. Two years later, a six-meter-tall pavilion,
Those cultural elements have increased Stratford’s international
For thousands of years, people have told fables (寓言)
Carson uses a simple, direct style common to fable. In fact, her style and tone (口吻) are seemingly directed at children. “There was once a town in the heart of America,
The themes of traditional fables often deal with simple truths about everyday life. However, Carson’s theme is a more weighty
Xiao long bao (soup dumplings), those amazing constructions of delicate dumpling wrappers, encasing hot,
No matter where I buy them, one steamer is
Beijing is a city bridging the ancient and the modern. From Buddhist temples to museums, narrow hutong
But for all its ancient buildings, Beijing is also a place
It is a distinct visual contrast (反差) that shouldn’t work,
The
Chinese high school principal Zhang Guimei has been honored
With the support of the Party and the government, she helped establish the country’s first senior high school to offer free education for girls from poor families. Since it opened in 2008, it
About 20 years ago, while on the way to visit a student’s house, Zhang Guimei, then a rural teacher in Huaping county, Lijiang, Yunnan province, noticed a girl
That fateful encounter(邂逅) persuaded Zhang
After years of trying to raise funds, in 2008, Huaping High School for Girls, a free public high school,
Whenever I tell people that I teach English at the Berlin Zoo, I almost always get a questioning look. Behind it, the person is trying to figure out who exactly I teach…the animals?
Since June 2017, right before the
Not the pandas, even though
So, what are they learning?
I arrived in Beijing three weeks ago; a native Iowan of the United States far from the land-locked Midwestern state I call home. I was eager
I soon recognized our common love for noodles. In Beijing noodles
Iowans know a lot about rural life as an
I suppose
Mixing traditional Chinese tea with coffee has
As China’s coffee and tea markets are both developing quickly, the new drinks have become a window through
Lu Yongchen, CEO of Tim Hortons China, says, “We have seen the rise of China’s coffee consumption market
Did you ever imagine that one day we could enjoy the benefits of Traditional Chinese Medicine in a cup of coffee?
Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM, is
But if you ask younger generations of Chinese, few visit TCM shops nowadays, let alone brew these time-tested remedies for
The concept of combining TCM herbs
As Traditional Chinese Medicine becomes more