Manzhong Norbusitar: the Lure of the Thangka简

正FORTY-six-year-old Manzhong Norbusitar is a national inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Thangka painting,a traditional Tibetan art form.The fourth generation in a line of Tibetan artists,he showed a strong interest in Thangka from a young age.Thangka painting involves highly skilled,geometric painting on cotton or silk and usually depicts a Buddhist deity,a ritual scene or symbol.Norbusitar learned the necessary techniques from     

China World Hotel,Beijing, Invites Guests to Be the First to Savor A Tajima Wagyu Feast

Aria at China World Hotel,Beijing,held a successful Tajima wagyu beef degustation dinner on October 24.More than 20 invited publishers,chief editors and marketing directors attended the event.The event was a wagyu journey with a farmer,a butcher and a talented chef.Aria has invited a farmer from Andrew Meat to share with diners the breeding story of Tajima wagyu and a butcher to explain the differences among the various     

TALENT GALORE

Tan Jianming graduated with a master's degree in refrigeration technology when he was 25 years old in 1989, a time when postgraduate students were a rare thing thing in china. He gave up many job opportunities in big cities and went in stead to work in a small factory in Zhuhai, a city in south Chna's Guangdong Province. Developing from a little fishing and salt-producing town, Zhuhai was officially established as a city in 1979.     

Visit Tibet with an Open Mind

I'm a graphic designer from San Francisco. I'd never been to Tibet before and had only seen a handful of pictures of it. I have a friend who's been here a couple of times, and whenever he talks about it, he gets a dreamy, faraway, happy look. Based on that, I was pretty sure I was in for a really special experience. The little I knew about the Tibetan political situation before the trip was that it seemed to be a mess: that China     

Hong Kong： Real Concern Only from the Motherland

正DURING the week-long 2014National Day holiday,tourism to and from the Chinese mainland saw a sudden rise,with the number of tourists to South K o r e a a n d T a i w a n s o a r i n g.M a i nland tourism to Singapore and other hotspots also increased to different degrees.However,in the same period tourist revenues of Hong Kong are reported to have shrunk.The news is worrying.     

Ex-pathology and the Medical Multiverse

IT is never more inconvenient to fall ill than in a foreign country. It can feel a bit like having a medical emergency in a public place-lying helpless while someone yells,     

Double-Skin Milk

Double-skin milk is a traditional custard like Cantonese dessert from Guangdong Province with a hstory of over a century, It is easy to make, so give it a try at home!     

Shenzhen‘s Manifest Cultural Pursuits

IN a residential area of Shenzhen stands a group of copper sculptures depicting ordinary residents-a businessman making a call on his cell phone, a street cleaner at work, and a student pushing her bicycle. On a piece of black marble are engraved the words:"December 29, 1999A day in the life of Shenzhen people, an ordinary day for ordinary citizensHistory captured in stoneA city's story-"     

Zhoushan Archipelago：Buddhist Paradise Between Sea and Sky

LEGEND has it that, around 2,000 years ago, a Japanese monk named Hui＇e made a pilgrimage to Wutai Moun-tain, a sacred Buddhist site in Shanxi Province. There he obtained a statue of Guanyin, Goddess of Mercy, with the intention of taking the figure back to Japan. After setting sail to a gentle breeze and fine ripples, a raging storm erupted as the vessel approached Zhoushan Archi- pelago in present-day Zhejiang Province. After the tempest subsided,     

Money on the Mainland

My arrival here in July marked a symbolic one-that of a fired, yet true emissary from a drifting America to a newly empowered People's Republic of China. My move emanated from a great job offer, of course, and, to a lesser degree, a lack of ways to make a decent living given the eco-nomic cauldron bubbling over back home.     

LETTERS

One day, I was channel surfing and came across a dating prognam. I stopped to watch. The bachelor was from a company where a neighbor of mine works, so I immediately shot off a text message to him, checking that his colleague really did earn RMB 400,000 a year as claimed.     

New Bricks in the Wall

Whenever a newcomer enters the classroom, he points at the wall. "Look at that!" says Li Shunye, indicating a picture of something that looks a bit like a pink furry fox, only with an oversized tail. "It's a squirrel," says the 9-year-old. "I made it."     

The Art of Reinventing

To the sound of a whistle, a row of peacocks march onto a narrow bridge behind a woman carrying a basket of food for them. As she walks, the woman sprinkles a bit of food from time to time while the peacocks peck and trail behind her, cackling loudly. The woman happens to be a staff member at the China Peacock Court, a large peacock farm in Jiayuguan, a city in northwest China's Gansu Province.     

Silver-Hair Service

Innovative elderly care eases aging population's pressureon nursing homes Every day at 11 a.m.on the dot,Xiao Honglian receives a cheerful visitor.Since Xiao,a senior citizen living in Gulou,a district in Nanjing,Jiangsu Province in east China,broke her leg recently,the visitor,a paramedic from a nearby elderly care center,has been giving her physiotherapy for the broken leg so that she can be back on her feet faster.     

Bright Star between Beijing and Tianjin

ON looking at a map ofHebei Province,a bigcity midway betweenBeijing and Tianjinmunicipalities springs to view.Itis Langfang.Covering 6,429square kilometers,and with apopulation of 3.85 million,Langfang is a peaceful city withexcellent transport facilities.Itdoes not have a land port or air-port,but is only a one-hour drivefrom Beijing International Airportand the Tianjin New Port.Mayor     

Eye of the Beholder

Having double eyelids was a dream of Zhang Yiwen, a 31-year-old in east China’s Jiangsu Province,formany years, and it was finally realized during the Spring Festival holiday in February with a surgical procedure at a general hospital.     

To Have or Not to Have a Second Child

正THE modification of China’s birth control policy which allows couples where either parent is a single offspring to have a second child came into force at the end of 2013.Although many young couples are indeed eager to have a second child,there are also plenty who are not.For many,whether or not to give birth a second time is a weighty decision.Avoid Only-Child Loneliness Guo Qian,30,formally announced her intention to conceive and give birth to a sibling–with luck a sister–for     

Family Planning Among Ethnic Minorities From Quantitative Population Increase to Qualitative Improvement

The scene - a single earthen bed in a poverty-stricken farming area of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regionin the far west of China. Shared by a whole family, the bed is packed with some two dozen youngsters, among them infants and a baby. Not one of them is wearing pants. The earthen bed, known as a kang, has a narrow wooden trough attached to the side facing the door, and from this the family eats its ＂meals＂ - more often than not a watery gruel of maize or sorghum flour.     

PRINTING LIFE

Imagineforasecond:during intricate brain surgery,doctors attach a patch of meninges produced by a 3D printer to repair the damaged part of the brain.The stuff ofdreams,somehow,wasturned into a reality by a Guangdong-based company.     

Realization of Human Rights Vs. Building of a Harmonious World

1.The task of building a harmo- nious world is a complex,arduous task,but fulfillment of this task is possible. In recent years,Hu Jintao,President of China,has,on several international occa- sions,called for a harmonious region,a har- monious Asia and a harmonious world. Obviously,the call comes as an expansion