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Every day, I am mesmorized by the choreographed morning exercises done by the 5,000 students at the Liangang Middle School, where I teach spoken English as a volunteer.
A seven-story pagoda rises from a public park in Loudi, Hunan, China
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Yangtze River - Three Gorges. Stunning - but by water! Some bad and good news. The largest-in-the-world dam has raised the water level in the Yangtze wiping out villages and... More |
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In China's westernmost city, one can get the most powerful feelings that travel can provide--of leaving one world and entering another.... more
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For nearly 2,000 years, the Mosuo have lived in the Yunnan and Sechuan provinces of southwest China, practicing matriarchal traditions. The majority of Mosuo families live around Lugu Lake, a region that was isolated from the rest of world until the 1970s.... more
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Among the Garo, one daughter, usually the youngest, is chosen as heiress.... more
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Peking opera of China is a national treasure with a history of 200 years. In the 55th year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty(1790) ,the four big Huiban opera Troupes entered the capital and combined with Kunqu opera, Yiyang opera, Hanju opera and Luantan in Beijing's thearetical circle of the time.... more
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Originally of Tibetan origin, the Naxi people settled in China's Yunnan province about 2,000 years ago.... more
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