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China's latest effort to promote traditional culture among its younger generation has raised controversy in a nation where diverse opinions and options are gaining a grudging respect.
The country's Ministry of Education on Thursday announced a pilot program to teach students in primary and secondary schools its traditional Peking Opera. Deemed one of the nation's unique cultural treasures, the opera will be added into music courses for 200 schools in 10 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions throughout China.
The move immediately drew heated reaction from the public. |
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Hong Kong’s Maggie Cheung dressed in more than 20 qipao outfits when filming the movie In the Mood for Love (2005). The colours, styles and materials used in the actor's traditional dresses changed throughout the movie, expressing a sense of elegance and style that touched many who saw the movie. This kindled a return of the qipao as a heartfelt fashion statement.
As one of the most traditional and typical dresses for Chinese women, the qipao has spawned many stories in its history of change and adaption, but in the Chinese people’s minds, it always symbolizes elegance, nobility and fashion. |
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Chinese disabled dancers are getting ready for the grand opening of the Beijing Paralympics. The talented dancers will showcase Chinese culture and pass on their passion for life to disabled people worldwide.
It takes perfect coordination to pull off a dance routine when you can't hear the music. But for twenty one hearing impaired dancers of the China Special Art Troupe, it's no big deal.
Selected from 90 million disabled people in China, these dancers will perform the "Thousand hands of Guanyin" at the Paralympics in September this year. |
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Upon entering the Shanghai Gallery of Art from the rather wet and mind-numbing cold on the Bund, I was grateful to receive a warm greeting by enthusiastic Art Director Mr. David Chan, who then offered an insightful tour of Lin Yilin's solo show, "A Spatio-temporal Tunnel."
Chinese born artist Yilin, now currently living in New York, started as a performance artist, taking his pieces to the streets of Guangzhou. In the southern city, he co-founded the collective "Big Tail Elephant," which undertook radical and confrontational performance art dealing with modernization in the urban space. In one work, a builder engaged in the act of building, tearing down and rebuilding a brick wall in the middle of a busy street in Guangzhou. The piece is intended as commentary against the frenzied pace and commercialization of the city scape. |
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 Two passengers get ready to board the plane of a cross-Straits charter flight for the upcoming Spring Festival at the Pudong Airport in Shanghai, February 22, 2008. [Xinhua]
BEIJING -- The first charter flight left here on Saturday morning for Taipei, carrying 142 passengers across the Taiwan Straits for Spring Festival family reunions.It was the fifth year that cross-Straits charter flights were offered for the traditional Chinese lunar new year, to fall on February 7 this year.
Most of the passengers were Taiwan businessmen and their relatives, according to Hainan Airlines, which operated the flight.
Some of the Taiwan people who are scheduled to take the flight back to Beijing are tourists, the company said. |
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