A Great Legacy

After running for 184 exciting and lively days, the curtain has finally descended on the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. As this great world event ends, heated discussion has started up about its significance, both internationally and for China.     

Shared Legacy

正While dramatists Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare lived and worked on two different continents,they shared a literary legacy.As this year marks the 400th year since their passing,a series of cultural events are being held to commemorate the literary masters.Several commemorative activities were held in April in Shakespeare’s hometown,Stratford-upon-Avon,by the Chinese     

A Leg up for China

The ongoing financial crisis is taking a heavy toll on emerging East Asian countries, including China, with weakening exports, reduced investments and credit flows that have dried to a trickle. But a     

Green Legacy

The curtain went down on the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai,yet the exploration of better city, better life will not end.Many green technologies exhibited at the World Expo will have a     

Darwin's Legacy

Why does the world exist and what or who created it? These are the questions humankind asked for thousands of years. Before Charles Darwin gave his answers, only creationism and uniformitarianism were turned to as possible reasons.     

Merkel's Diplomatic Legacy

正In October 2018,German Chancellor Angela Merkel already announced that she would not participate in the elections taking place this year in September and would step down at the end of her fourth term.     

Performing a Legacy

Every month, Su Zhiyin sets aside four or five days for her favorite hobby— singing nanyin. As a resident of Jinjiang, southeast China's Fujian Province, the 60-year-old retired business woman has been practicing the art for over two decades. Nanyin is a musical performing art that originated during the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) and is central to the culture of the people living in the southern part of Fujian, as well as residents on China's southeastern coast and overseas Chinese of south Fujian origin.     

Mother River’s Legacy

Chen Fu,an associate research fellow with the Aerospace In formation Research In stitu te,the Chinese Academy of Sciences,studied the changes taking place along the Yangtze River Economic Belt by comparing satellite images of lights across the region.     

Beijing's Olympic Legacy

In the very same way that Olympic athletes remain Olympians for the rest of their lives, Olympic cities are forever Olympic. And, in the eyes of the world, the deeds of the thousands upon thousands of athletes, organizers, volunteers and citizens of Beijing     

An Unfaded Legacy

正A late poet's great granddaughter retraces his footsteps inthe U.S.to find a continued linkWhen Wen Ting walked into the International House in New York City for the first time in 2018,she felt a spiritual connection with her great grandfather Wen Yiduo,who used to live on the ninth floor of the building 95 years ago.Wen Yiduo (1899-1946),one of the prominent poets in early 20th century China,was among the students chosen by the government in 1922 to pursue fine arts and literature in the U.S.He went to Chicago first but his last stop in the U.S.was the Art Students League in New York.a private art school.     

Preserving a Legacy

Memorials get ready to celebrate the centenary of the CPC Exactly a century ago,on July 23,the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opened in a building in Shanghai.Attended by 13 Chinese participants and two foreign representatives from the Communist International,the historical meeting declared the founding of the CPC and laid out its guiding principles and workplan.     

Laozi and His Legacy

THE Hangu Pass, 15 kilo- meters north of Lingbao City in Henan Province, was one of China’s earli- est military fortif ications. It guarded the sole path, through deep gorges ? anked by steep mountains, to the political and economic center of an- cient China. The four gate towers on top of its tall, stoutly built rampart ensured, as Chinese ancients stated, that: “As long as one man guards the pass, ten thou- sand cannot breach it.” The stone statue of Laozi (Lao-tse) astride an ox th…     

Legacy of Shanxi Tycoons

Aline of visitors files through the small courtyard entrance to the Rishengchang (Rising Sun Prosperity) Draft Bank on bustling West Street at World Cultural Heritage site Pingyao, Shanxi Province. The accrued value of entrance tickets to the bank is a pittance compared to the wealth it earned from bills of exchange, butnevertheless indicates the bank's capacity to regenerateafter decades of dormancy. About a hundred years ago, this residence-like courtyard was financial hub of the Qing Dynasty. Looking at the modest courtyard offices, it is hard to     

Leaving a New Legacy

With the Olympic flame dancing to the drums of the Chinese Year of the Tiger,the Beijing 2022 Games—the first-ever Winter Olympics held in China and its second Olympics after hosting the 2008 Summer Games—concluded on February 20,to be followed by the Paralympic Winter Games from March 4 to 13.     

The Cheng Acupuncture Legacy

A CUPUNCTURE, practiced in China for over 2,500 years, continues to baffle Western medics.This ancient remedial     

The Shaolin Kungfu Legacy

MOST Chinese people of middle-age clearly remember the first kungfufilm: 1982's Shaolin Temple. This film portraying the love of a young Shaolin monk for a shepherd girl brought significant changes to Henan Province's Shaolin Temple. Before 1982, only 200,000 tourists visited annually. By 1984 their number increased to 2.6 million.Inspired by the movie, many