"Flitsch said that Kang (mud bed) was a multi-functional place. It could serve as a bed, floor, table, chair and heater. Therefore, it combined the working and living features of ... Read More

"The character-based writing system generally takes the blame for the language's difficulty. Even Chinese children take longer to reach a certain level of literacy than their counterparts learning to read ... Read More

"Water-erosion, including mountain water infiltration, rain and coagulated hydrosphere, are greatly responsible for the damage of some valuable rock relic sites across China, said Yuan Daoxian, anacademician with the Chinese ... Read More

"Chinese entrepreneur Richard Wang is one of only a handful of businesspeople in this country to know firsthand what it's like to try to acquire businesses located in the United ... Read More

"I love classic Chinese furniture and decoration very much... It's interesting to place the modern and ancient, Chinese and European articles together in my home." Read the story.

"The 1st World Chinese Conference opened in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing yesterday, attracting Chinese speakers from around the globe." Read the story.

"The teahouse has become a place for people to not only sip tea and relax, but also to experience Chinese culture, hold social activities, host private parties and conduct business ... Read More

"In the past people obeyed the rules and the government. Now we can have our own ideas and our own say... even if it may not have much effect," Tina ... Read More

"Hundreds of paddies in the form of neatly stacked trays run down the gentle slopes that follow the contours of mountains in Quanfunzhang village in Honghe Autonomous Region's Yuanyang county-home ... Read More

A unique museum to showcase Nushu, probably the only female specific language in the world, is expected to be erected in 2007 in Jiangyong County, central China's Hunan Province, said ... Read More

"Some years ago, See learned of the secret women’s written language nushu, and her fascination with it took her to Hunan’s Jiangyong County for research." Read the story.

"Boys and girls between 14 and 20 in urban China have their first sexual experience at the average age of 17.4, nearly 9 years earlier than their grandparents when they ... Read More

"'The secret of the missing Peking Man skulls and other relics remains a trans-century secret that embodies creation and destruction,and civilization and barbarism,' Gao said when talking about the resumption ... Read More

"Almost 2,000 years ago the route connected imperial China to the Roman Empire, now almost one-third of the 250 million yuan (US$30 million) China has pledged to spend annually on ... Read More

"The country now provides 70% of the world's sex toys. While the bulk of the equipment is destined for export, a growing share is now being sold domestically, to a ... Read More

"Beijing's traditional one-center layout, with Tian'anmen Square as the core, is now being replaced with a multicentred development plan, with the introduction of a series of parallel centers including the ... Read More

"But imports from China tend to be more down-market. They effectively raise the standard of living of the lowest-income Americans. The much smaller number of Americans who are hurt by ... Read More

"The first Italian-Chinese university is established in Shanghai, according to the cooperation agreement between Italy and China signed this morning in Beijing by Minister Letizia Moratti." Read the story.

"Qinghua University, which holds one of China's top architecture schools, is now merging with an art school, and will require architecture students to take a spectrum of art courses. Schools ... Read More

'Tell Me More' is an interactive program for learning Chinese (Mandarin). This program is very useful for those who have some basic knowledge about Chinese, but want to do more ... Read More