Facelift of Ningbo''''s Bund

"Bund" derives from an Anglo-Indian word for an embankment along a muddy waterfront. In the late 19th century after Shanghai was forced to open to Western colonists, the Bund became the site of some of the earliest foreign settlements and now is known as one of the most recognizable architectural symbols of Shanghai. But the Bund is not a feature exclusive to Shanghai. Similar styles of architecture also appear in other coastal or river cities in China, such as Wuhan, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Fuzhou. And few people know that Ningbo Bund even enjoys a much longer history than Shanghai Bund. In the Tang Dynasty (618-907), Ningbo was a starting point of the Silk Road on the sea and one of the three major foreign trade ports; the other two were Yangzhou and Guangzhou. In the Song Dynasty (960-1279), Ningbo, Guangzhou and Quanzhou were the     

Two Conglomerates Ally for Co-win Cooperation

Xi’an Qujiang Culture & Tourism Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Spring Tour Service recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement, with an objective to achieve co-win in the intense competition of the tourism industry. Founded in 1981, Shanghai Spring Tour Service is a leading tourism enterprise of China. It employs over 4,000 staffs and tour guides and obtains an annual revenue of up to 6     

BEIJING＇S TRAD TIONAL ARCHWAYS

The pailou, also known as paifang, is an archway of a memorial or decorative nature. It is a classical architectural style of ancient China which is supported by a single row of columns and designed to separate and coordinate architectural space. With a simplistic and exquisite appearance, the pailou has both decorative and practical functions. When erected at thoroughfare crossroads, it can serve as a direction guide and add to aesthetic and cultural richness of a town; when installed in classical gardens, it helps to screen or separate sceneries while contributing to the beauty of the landscape.     

The Empire of Women： Not a Fairytale

In China there are small matriarchal societies which survived for thousands of years and whose culture is unknown by the majority of our modern world.One of them is the ancient cuiture of the Mosuo, an ethnic minority group living in the provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan, areas referred to in old Chinese historical records as ＂the empire of women＂. After reading about this culture, Mathilde Heijne, a Berlin-based artist, started thinking about an art proiect that would locus on their social structures and began planning a trip to Lake Lugu - the home of the Mosuo.     

Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Museum was founded in 1952 and originally housed in the former horseracing club in Nanjing West Road. In 1996, the museum moved into the current site in People＇s Square in the heart of the city and reopened to public. The unique architectural form of the new building, featuring a round top and a square foundation and symbolizing the traditional Chinese philosophical concept that the square earth is under the round sky, is an outstanding combination of tradition and modernity and presents an extraordinary visual effect.     

Shanghai in Foreign

“Shanghai in Foreign Artists' Eyes” is an art exchange event jointly organized by the Information Office and the Foreign Affairs Office of Shanghai Municipal Government. 23 foreign painters from 23 countries and regions, including Australia, Finland, Singapore and the United States, were invited to stay in Shanghai for a while and create artworks that are involved with this rising international metropolis. Their works were then displayed in an exhibition entitled "Shanghai in Foreign Artists' Eyes".     

Qujiang Cultural Tourism Honored as ＂50 Good-Faith Listed Companies of China 2014＂

Qujiang Cultural Tourism Co., Ltd was recently inscribed as ＂50 Good- Faith l.isted Companies of China 2014＂. It stood out of the 239 candi- date companies and is the only cul- tural tourism business in China and listed company in Shaanxi province to he included in this new list. Good faith is an essential element comprising the value system of Chi- nese traditional culture. It lies at the very core of an enterprise＇s corporate culture and bears an enterprise＇s so- cial obligation. As a leading company in China＇s cultural tourism industry,     

＂Shanghai Dreams＂ Reveals Cruelty of Youth

Wang Xiaoshuai＇s Cannes prizewinning film Shanghai Dreams （Qing Hong） is rooted in first handed memories. In the late 60s, when China feared attack by the USSR, armament factories and other ＂front line＂ industries were relocated from cities on the eastern seaboard to remote inland areas, and idealistic young adults were persuaded to resettle in dirt-towns like Guiyang to staff them. Less than 15 years later, many were desperate to move back to the urban sophistication of such cities as Shanghai, disillusioned by life in the sticks and eager to taste the newFreedoms of the 80s. The Wu family is a case in point.     

Chinese Fengshui and Architecture

In 1996, Southeast University opened courses on architecture and fengshui and the textbook Basics of the Book of Change compiled by Prof. Li Shicheng from the Physics Department of the university was widely received. In big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, it has been a public secret today that geomancers are invited to practice geomancy when a real estate development project is launched, a new shop is opened, or someone rents or buys an apartment. From September 9 to 11, 2…     

NE·TIGER A RISING CHINESE LUXURY BRAND

China＇s booming market and growing consumers of luxury goods have attracted world luxury brand names to come for a new round of gold rush. Flagship stores and outlets of famous brands such as Louis Vuitton and Giorgio Armani are burgeoning in big cities across the country. In this intense struggle for market shares in the world＇s fourth largest economy with the biggest potential population of luxury consumers, a local Chinese brand name is growing fast to become an inevitable rival of those Western heavyweights. From Millionaire Fair to Extravaganza, it has been invited as an equal member to stand amidst world top-class brand names such as Rolls Royce, Cartier and Dior. It is NE.TIGER, a shining fashion brand founded in China and by a Chinese designer. ＂In fact, China has exported numerous luxuries to the rest of the world for hundreds of years, such as silk, porcelain and tea. In the contemporary time, NE.TIGER will continue this glorious tradition and try to be the best example of China＇s high-end brand names,＂ said Zhang Zhifeng, chairman and chief designer of NE·TIGER.     

The Long Return Journey of the Lost Cultural Relics

As the wheels of time move forward,modern generations can only get a glimpse of their ancestors‘ life from the cultural relics of a people. Maybe it is the intuitive bond between one life and another that makes everyone feel an emotional attachment to cultural relics.Every cultural relic is just like a cord,making connections among blood ties as well as different regions. Long time span dose not keep us from knowing about them from books and feeling them in our culture, but unfortunately, they are kept in the splendid buildings at the far end of the ocean, without really being understood.     

＂The Colors of Water＂： Miao Xiaolong＇s Modem Dance Concert

In China＇s dancing arena today where most dancers pursue hasty success, it is truly rare to prepare a dance concert for as long as seven years. And more amazingly,the whole production is planned and presented by merely one person who choreographs and directs the dance concert, designs all costumes, stage settings and lighting as well as dances its leading part. But Miao Xiaolong made it. Several months ago, this young talented teacher at the dancing department of the Music School of Shanghai Normal University presented his dance concert ＂The Colors of Water＂ in Shanghai.     

TEMPLES OF MATSU IN GUIZHOU

Matsu, or the Goddess of Sea is widely worshipped in coastal areas of China and temples are built in these areas to enshrine statues of Matsu or Heavenly Queen. But it is quite interesting that there are quite a few Matsu temples in the inland province of Guizhou. Among these temples, the Heavenly Queen temple in Zhenyuan County is the largest, best-preserved and finest-built one and proclaimed as a site under the province-level protection.     

China Hosts Young Overseas Sinologists

Sinology is an academic discipline on the study of China, Chinese people and Chinese culture. Today, the scope of sinology has widened extensively to establish itself as a knowledge system on the study of Chinese philosophy, history, language, literature, arts, politics, economy and society. Sinology development relies on sinologists and translators who play an indispensible role in helping the rest of the world know more about China.     

New Year Print of Yangliuqing

Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Yangjiabu in Weifang, Shandong, Taohuawu in Suzhou, Jiangsu and Mianzhu in Sichuan are known the four most famous places to produce Chinese New Year prints. Yangliuqing, about 10 kilometers west from the city proper of Tianjin, is an ancient town with a long history. With high intensity of population and rich natural resources, this historic town has enjoyed prosperity as a transportation hub.     

CULTURAL HERITAGE CONSERVATION CALLS FOR GREATER PUBLIC AWARENESS AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

A 36-person delegation from the US President＇s Committee on the Arts and the Humanity paid an official visit to China from June 5 to 13 at the invitation of Chinese Cultural Ministry. On June 10, the delegation attended a seminar on the conservation of world heritage sites in Suitcase House in Commune by the Great Wall,a resort hotel in the suburb of Beijing.At the seminar Shan Jixiang,Director-General of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of China,delivered a presentation on the trends of cultural heritage conservation in China as wall as China-US exchange and cooperation in the field of cultural heritage conservation.     

THE BEAUTY OF THE OLD VILLAGE OF GUODONG

Guodong Village is located at the foot of the mountain of primitive jungles, 10 kilometers to the south of Wuyi County, Zhejiang Province. In the village, ancient architectures in the styles of the Ming and Qing dynasties are available everywhere. And with a combination of both artificial and natural sceneries, the village, like a retreat away from the world, is famous for its accomplishments in education and culture as well as numerous virtuous and talented figures emerging from the village…     

＂My Dream Comes True ＂

＂I have two more dreams fulfilled than others,＂ said Madam Sun Danwei, president of Wuyutai Tea Co., Ltd., ＂One is Wuyutai managed to offer tea service in the Olympic Village and the other is t myself, as a representative of Wuyutai, was selected as an Olympic torch bearer!＂     

The Internet Bar Phenonm:China''''s Double-edged Sword

High school and college students in some of China's biggest cities are spending more time online than on their schoolwork, according to a recent survey. Conducted in Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan, the survey showed 42 percent of the high school students questioned spend an average of 30 minutes daily surfing the Internet, while college kids may go online for up to an hour and a half. Clearly, the Internet has become an     

THE MYSTERY OF SANXINGOUI CULTURE

Stories about Sanxingdui Culture published in the magazine before have caught readers＇ great interest. So far there are three major viewpoints about the origin of this mysterious culture. Some experts note that unearthed artifacts in Sanxingdui were legacies of the ancient Shu Kingdom and have nothing to do with foreign cultures. But since no written records have been left about this culture existing more than three thousand years ago, those who support this hypothesis have to resort to a smattering of clues in ancient documents of ensuing periods as well as legendary stories. A rivaling opinion argues that this culture has some relation with the ancient civilizations of Western Asia, Central Asia as well as Aegean Sea. It is believed that Ancient Egyptians already knew how to produce bronzes in the period between 3 800 and 3 500 BC and it is quite possible that the technology was imported to China in some way. In recent years, however, some scholars, based on extensive studies, assert that Sanxingdui is a result of cultural exchange and assimilation. They hold that some tribe lost its way during the great migration of the ancient India-lran tribes and misled itself to Sanxingdui. The tribe settled there and developed a culture that blends elements from both ancient central China and ancient India-lran areas.[第一段]