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In search of a 'Made in China' china that's really smashing

Feature | Culture and history
2009-11-6

WHAT'S the dish on China? A major ceramics fair "China Unlimited" opens today at ShanghaiMart. It asks why China these days isn't making world-famous china. Wang Jie is fired up. You'd think that China, the cradle...

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New look for old Nanjing: glitz, history and some Xintiandi

Feature | Culture and history
2009-10-24

ALL those interested in Chinese history should look toward Nanjing, capital city of Jiangsu Province. As the capital of four dynasties, its streets contain historical architecture from almost every important era. ...

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Tales of the men who found the terra-cotta warriors and horses

Feature | Culture and history
2009-10-21

THIRTY-FIVE years ago farmers digging a well came upon fragments of the terra-cotta warriors. Archeologists arrived. So did fame, rivalry and money. Yu Fei reports. Wearing a traditional Chinese-style beige shirt...

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Grand Canal seeks rightful place as UNESCO heritage site

Feature | Culture and history
2009-10-13

GRANDMA Yang shows up at her courtyard gate as usual, a basket of vegetables across her arm. Sitting on a stool, she starts preparing lunch, cutting vegetables piece by piece and washing each bundle in several basins...

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Country roads, take me home

Feature | Culture and history
2009-9-22

FORTY years ago, Red Guard Zhang Fen was among 17 million zhiqing or intellectual youth sent down to the countryside to learn from the peasants. Today she's still there, it's home. Lin Jiangyang visits. The most...

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Canada: How the Chinese helped build a nation

Feature | Culture and history
2009-9-19

THANKS to 78-year-old Lily Chow, the roles played by early immigrants in the development of modern Canada are gaining wider recognition, writes Ma Dan. Almost a century and half ago, Chinese laborers began to travel...

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Argentina throws a party

Feature | Culture and history
2009-9-19

ARGENTINA is well-known among Chinese people for its football and the tango. Passion and exuberance are two words usually used to define its people and nature. However, the country has more to offer than sporting...

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Anglo-gothic gem

Feature | Culture and history
2009-9-2

AS the World Expo Shanghai draws near, the rush is on to preserve the city's architectural heritage. Once horribly "modernized" and renovated, the old Shanghai University of Science and Technology in Yangpu District...

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Veterans of the's good

Feature | Culture and history
2009-8-31

THE Shangyangshi Community in Shangcheng District, one of the oldest areas in southern Hangzhou, has a unique claim to fame. It was there, reports Tan Weiyun, that the first residential committee of the New China was...

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The Bund takes a starring role in documentaries for Expo 2010

Feature | Culture and history
2009-8-13

THE Bund, famous across the world for its multinational architecture style, is considered a symbol of Shanghai and a must-see for visitors to the city. The landmark will be again in the spotlight as a charismatic...

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Lording over the locals: When red turbans were a familiar sight

Feature | Culture and history
2009-8-12

AS imperial powers carved out the history of Shanghai after the Opium Wars in the 1850s, a sizeable part of that history was played out by the India's Sikh community here. Brought in to lord over the local populace...

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A lifeline for Sikhs in Shanghai

Feature | Culture and history
2009-8-12

THE gurdwara on Dongbaoxing Road is a south-facing two-story rectangular structure with red-brick walls. Old documents give an insight into the temple. "There are 19 stairs leading to the entrance of the temple...

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Zhuo Lin: The driving force behind a revolutionary partnership

Feature | Culture and history
2009-8-4

IN an unexceptional courtyard on the street behind Jingshan Hill in central Beijing, two Chinese pines stand side by side. They mark the residence of Zhuo Lin, widow of China's late leader Deng Xiaoping. Last...

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Elegant scenery, fine buildings in over-looked Longchuan hamlet

Feature | Culture and history
2009-8-1

THOUGH the history of Longchuan Village dates back 1,600 years, the small hamlet with well-preserved historical buildings and picturesque landscape in southern Anhui Province seems a less known tourist destination...

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Preserving historic factories - the grand, not-so-grand and gradually falling apart

Feature | Culture and history
2009-7-30

SHANGHAI, once China's manufacturing center, today has almost 300 officially recognized historic industrial sites. Pan Zheng visits three of them. A 126-year-old operating waterworks, the old Toyota textile mill and...