Beijing’s Central Axis not only symbolizes Chinese culture, but also links daily lives of local residents. Over hundreds of years, countless stories have been staged on the Central Axis.Today, the people living on Beijing’s Central Axis also try to enrich the stories in their unique way.From Huton...

Lived: 1902-1992Nationality: British, later resided in China and AustraliaBooks:China: a short cultural history(1935),Revolution in China(1952) republished asThe Birth of Communist China(1964),The Chinese View of their Place in the World(1964),Em...

Emperor Qin Shi Huang – First Emperor of ChinaEmperor Qin Shi Huang (259 BC - 210 BC) fascinates people when they talk about theGreat Walland theTerracotta Warriors and Horses- his two greatest achievements. As the first emperor of China, he indeed has a profound influence o...

Lanterns play an important and irreplaceable role in Chinese long history and symbolize the brilliant culture of China. The art of lanterns, as the precious traditional culture of Chinese, is also inherited and continues among folks. The craftwork of lantern is still widely used in a current society...

After a year of complex restoration, specialists from the Palace Museum in Beijing have given a pair of antique pagoda clock automata a new lease on life.In the form of a nine-tiered pagoda, the clocks, housed in the Summer Palace in Beijing, not only tell the time, but also put on an automated spec...

I first became acquainted with China through famous kungfu movies and I was especially deeply fascinated by Jet Li's martial arts action movies.After receiving excellent results in the college entrance examination, I was admitted to the best medical university in Rwanda. My family was so proud o...