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Archive for 'Chinese Culture'

Resignation from CCTV

According to the Japanese media the head of the PR department in CCTV, Xia Guanghong, resigned from his director post. During the lunar years (February 14-15), CCTV had all night entertainment programs including singing and dancing.  However, CCTV made about 6.5 millions yuan in profit from commercials. This outraged the Chinese audience who complained about [...]

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China’s Lobbies in the US Congress

When the democrat controls in the White House last time during Clinton Administration, the anti-China rhetoric was out control in the end.  Even the congress published COX REPORT against China on Capital Hill by accusing to spy American nuclear secrets. China-bashing was costless. When the 44th president took the power in the White House this [...]

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Kidnapped Children in China-II

According to Xinhua News Agency two men: Hu Minghua and Su Binde, were executed in the morning of 26 November 2009. Based on the statement from the Supreme People’s Court, Hu Minghua had kidnapped and sold nine children from April 1999 to October 2005, while Su Binde was convicted of abducting six children between September [...]

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Yuanmingyuan-II

In 1860, the Western powers, such the British and French, invaded Chinaand destroyed Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace. They were looting and smuggling the finest pieces of the Chinese collections out of China. Thanks to voices of the Chinese people in the internet, Beijingfinally decided to send a team of experts to museums around the [...]

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Great Wall is Great!

In 2009, a Chinese government study was released reporting the total length of the Great Wall according to the Chinese media.  A joint project between the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping utilized GPS devices to map parts of war built during Ming dynasty – stretching from Mt. [...]

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Yuanmingyuan-I

An auction of art works by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge in February have made the Chinese mad. Two rare bronze sculptures (heads of a rat and a rabbit) of Yuanmingyuan or the Old Summer Palace were stolen by the British and the French during the Second Opium War in 1860. These two items [...]

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