Open Sesame Alibaba’s Taobao Dominates in a New Era of Chinese Online Shoppin

THE Internet is old news. To say the Internet has revolutionized an industry or a sector is to be at best five years-and at worst a decade-behind the times.Or so you’d think. Look a bit closer, and you’ll see the Internet hasn’t done changing the game just yet. A number of industries did actually resist early onslaughts by the Big Connect. Retail was a standout-many consumers continued to     

Reviving the Ancient Art of Chinese Wrestling

MA Jianguo often likes to joke that his class resembles the Eight-Nation Alliance, a military coalition that invaded and looted Beijing more than 100 years ago during the Boxer Uprising. But the hotchpotch of nationalities, which includes French, Brazilian, and Dutch, that gather in Beijing’s Xuanwu     

Snowballing Chinese

DURING his 30 years of teaching Chinese, Joel Bel Lassen found his students were more likely than not to figure out the meaning of every single character by themselves. Some were creative enough to go beyond dictionaries to employ their imagination. For example, the character for ＂greed,＂ from top to bottom,     

Closing the East-West Gap

THE west has a special significance to the Chinese nation. It is the headwater of the Yangtze, Yellow and a few other major rivers that have given rise to and sustained Chinese civilization. It is also the     

Make Way Hollywood？ China＇s Film Industry on the Up and Up

THE New Year period is a good time for filmmakers in China. Scores of movies premiere during the festive season, which lasts from December to Februarycompetition is fierce and box office receipts pile up.     

Wind-and-Rain Bridge Builder Yang Siyu

EACH of China’s ethnic minorities has a discrete building style that immortalizes its culture and anchors its esthetics. That of the Dong     

Rockets on the Rails

ON November 11, Chinese railway authorities once again modified the national train network - the third time in 2009.The purpose of such large-scale adjustmerits, covering vehicle modes, schedules and mutes, was to make way for the introduction of 57 multiple unit trains of the latest model - the China Railway High-speed 3 （CRH3）- by the end ofthe year.     

Zhangye City——A Rose in the Desert

ZHANGYE is an ancient city where people of different ethnic groups and divergent cultures have converged during its long history. It lies     

Teachers Are Human Bridges

American teachers participating in a program designed to encourage and facilitate teaching and learning about Asia give their take on a tour of China.     

Young CPC Members: Various Motivations,Same Bond

MAO Kuai joined the CPC in 2007 when he was in senior high school.Four years have passed but Mao still clearly remembers he handwrote an application of 20-odd-pages to join the Party and officially became a Party member in a ceremony held in his hometown's municipal hall on June 29.Mao,with other new recruits,sang the Internationale as part of the induction process,and in the drama of the moment was so excited he couldn't help bursting into tears.