2012/4/17 0:00:00
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Competitors fly a dragon kite during a kite-flying competition in Weifang city, East China's Shandong province, April 17, 2012. Weifang is famous for its annual international kite festival, attracting people from dozens o...
2012/4/10 0:00:00
Chinese citizens are like most people, different in many ways and yet similar. They also represent every viewpoint, and yet we as Americans tend to label them all as "those Chinese".
For instance, upon arriving in Tianjin for my first year to teach, I went through the usual cultural shock. In order to combat this and to get outside myself I wandered onto the empty campus where I was to teach a...
2012/4/10 0:00:00
After a spur-of-the-moment decision in the train ticket office in Beijing, we booked our return from Harbin to a place called Nanchang on the basis that it must be further south and therefore warmer. As always, there was a complication with buying the tickets. This time there weren't any sleeper beds available, just hard seats. Even so, we decided to go ahead with it, after all, this would add t...
2012/3/31 0:00:00
Ian Wright came to China to shoot season three of his latest show Invite Ian Wright. Jiang Dong / China Daily
Before he sent a show reel to Channel 4 to be a travel show presenter, Ian Wright did lots of jobs - painting, cycle courier, making jams and jewelry and selling them on his stall in Spitalfields Market, London.
His five-minute video showed him in London's Liver...
2012/3/22 0:00:00
PlugsThe voltage is 220V, but the pins in the plugs are (mostly) arranged differently. An international adaptor can be bought easily, though they're a good deal easier to find in the airport before you leave than on the ground after you arrive. This is especially important for those taking their laptops into China.Videos are PAL, also like the UK, but most Chinese don't watch them. They do watch...
2012/3/10 0:00:00
A picture of Jenny Ma
Beijing, March 9 --Jenny Ma, 73 years old, came to China after she retired in California in 1996. She has been engaging in English teaching in a collage in Zhengzhou city of Henan province.Jenny established an orphanage in Xinmi city of Henan province. She has adopted 82 orphans in 16 years.
Jenny Ma with an orphan she adopted.
Beijing, Marc...
2012/3/8 0:00:00
Foreigners working in the permanent representative offices of foreign enterprises in China and their family members (spouse, underage children) should hold Visa "Z" (work) to enter China and apply for, within 30 days of entry, residence permit to the Division of Exit-Entry Administration of Beijing Public Security Bureau. The residence permit shall be valid for no more than 1 year within the per...
2012/3/6 0:00:00
(Approved by the State Council on August 17, 1983 and promulgated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs on August 26, 1983)
1. When Chinese citizens and foreigners (including foreign residents andthose who come to China for a short visit, Chinese of foreign nationality, andforeigners who have settled down in China) decide to get married of their ownfree will within the boundaries of Ch...
2012/3/5 0:00:00
Materials:500g live prawns, 200g potatoes, 5g soaked hair-like seaweed, a stick of celery, 150g cooked green soybeans, 25g soaked Xianggu mushrooms
Preparations:1- Cut the potatoes into strips and soak in salt water, remove and mix with dry cornstarch and flour.2- Remove heads and shells and wash the prwans, mix with condiments and cornstarch.3- Arrange the potato strips in the shape of a b...
2012/3/2 0:00:00
Jamie (R, Front) makes "pitta and hummus", an Arab snack, in Shichahai, a historic scenic area in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 1, 2011. Among numerous street vendors in Beijing, Jamie Bilbow is the one that makes distinctions. Attired in a green army overcoat and white rubber-soled sneakers which give a tinge of China in the 1970s, the 23-year-old Englishman hawks "pitta and hum...