Shi Chengfu's courtyard became, on 3 November 2013, the exact spot where President Xi Jinping first used the phrase "targeted poverty alleviation" during a visit to Shibadong, a Miao village in Huayuan county, a phrase that went on to...
Surgeons who first examined Lady Xin Zhui's body in 1972 found her joints still movable, her skin elastic, and her blood group identifiable, some 2,100 years after her burial in a tomb northeast of modern Changsha, at Mawangdui.
一九七二年,医护人员首次对辛追夫人的遗体进行检验时发现,历经两千一百年,她的关节依然可以活动,皮肤仍富有弹性,甚至连血型都能辨识,而她的墓葬,就位于今日长沙城东北的马王堆。
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Sun Quan ordered furnaces built at Tieshan in 226 AD to forge weapons for his fledgling kingdom, tapping ore deposits so rich that miners kept returning to the same hills on and off for the next seventeen centuries, using...
Monks at Wudang's Golden Peak still light incense at 1,612 metres, on one of the steepest summits in the Taoist canon; Mi Fu, a Song dynasty painter, is said to have called this range the foremost mountain under heaven.
武当山金顶海拔一千六百一十二米,僧人至今仍在此焚香祈福,是道教名山中地势最为险峻的峰顶之一;相传宋代书画家米芾曾赞誉这座山为"天下第一山"。
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These things often start, not with a statistic, but with a voice; Persian heard in a lift, a WeChat contact from Tehran, a trader in Yiwu, a student in Nanjing, a restaurateur explaining saffron, pistachios and sanctions in the...
China has 300 million smokers, nearly a third of the world's total. The imbalance between the sexes is stark: 46.4 percent of Chinese men smoke, against 1.9 percent of Chinese women. But of course, the underlying question is, "What's...
When it comes to English-language education on China, there are "international schools" and "international-style schools", with the former accepting foreign passport holders only, or the children thereof. The Nanjinger's list breaks down the most reputable names in the field.
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