Focus on Chinese Culture Archives

These are weekly summaries of Chinese Culture related news that I collect and send to a variety of egroups. I hope you enjoy them.

Older Archives:- 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003

Focus on Culture
2007.10.12


- Preserving a tradition
- Forbidden City resorts to e-ticketing to cap visitors
- "Golden Week" holidays exhaust animal stars (cute photo)
- Red leaves in China's Changbai Mountian Ranges (photos)
- Exhibition in HK celebrates upcoming Halloween (photos)
- The last gunmen's tribe of Miao ethnic group (photos)

Focus on Culture
2007.10.05


- Ancient labor songs sound like rap
- Confucius quotes may greet Beijing Olympic guests
- Feature: China expects "intangible legacy" from Beijing Olympics(2)
- Beijing holds festival for twins (photos)
- China puts out century-old fire gobbling up scarce coal resources

Focus on Culture
2007.09.28


- The master who makes China's biggest mooncake
- China's lunar satellite launch open to tourists
- Stumble upon ideas in old hutongs
- Knight at the museum
- Exploring ways to produce original Chinese musicals

Focus on Culture
2007.09.07


- Chinese dishes get official English names
- Beijing Olympic committee starts to collect children's smiles for Games
- Exploration of the Nanhai No.1 (photos)
- Dragon boat "Pujiang Sightseeing 1" makes maiden voyage (photo)

Focus on Culture
2007.08.31


- Post-80s: frustrated new moms
- China's first test-tube baby enters college
- "Library on the lake" opens to public (photo)
- "Extinct" white-flag dolphin spotted in Yangtze River
- Pupils injured in school stampede in stable conditions

Focus on Culture
2007.08.10


- Christianity finds a fulcrum in Asia
- Couples tie the knot on auspicious August 8
- Yue Embroidery in south China's Guangdong Province (amazing photos)
- "Horseback classrooms" become history in Inner Mongolia
- Hottest topics in Chinese blogs 2007

Focus on Culture
2007.07.20


- Breakdancing developing new ground in China
- Columbus or Zheng He? Debate Rages on
- Public Protest Clears Forbidden City of Starbucks
- Chinese lawyer calls for establishment of child protection agent
- Word on Shanghai's street: No Chinglish
- Jet Li to star in Disney picture

Focus on Culture
2007.07.13


- One-month working in a barbershop in Fuzhou
- Learn Chinese to earn more money
- World's first panda town to be built in Chengdu
- Australian couple completes the Great Wall on foot
- Massive mice invasion hits central China

Focus on Culture
2007.07.06


- China likely to cancel "golden week" holidays in 2009
- Pandas crowd pleasers in HK
- Rare green crystals found in 2,500-year-old tomb
- Ancient Xi'an Market to Rise Again
- Mysterious Building in Chinese First Emperor's Tomb (photo)

Focus on Culture
2007.06.29


- Pandas Had Bamboo Stick to Beat Predators
- Memory of emperor Fuxi honored in NW China (photo)
- Kaiping Diaolou inscribed on World Heritage List (photo)
- China's farmland continues to dwindle
- China's first national park unveiled

Focus on Culture
2007.06.22


- Feature: Dragon boating is full of fun
- Chinese urged to return to traditions of Dragon Boat Festival
- New plea to save 'lost' kids
- Erhu -- the sound of China (photo)
- Spicy secrets from the queen of the hot pots

Focus on Culture
2007.06.15


- Adoptive dad has heart that's big enough for two (very touching story)
- Foreign sons-in-law, daughters-in-law blend into Chinese families
- Student shows martial arts novels not just for boys
- Sounds of yesteryear seduce Shanghainese
- Gigantic bird-like dinosaur found in China (photo)
- Olympic dishes at Beijing Quanjude

Focus on Culture
2007.06.08


- Xi'an opens center for pregnant girls
- Screens put strain on children's eyes
- Live and learn in China
- Battle of the hutong
- Chengdu trains flight attendants in "Gong fu"
- Scientists: Drinking Oolong tea helps you lose weight

Focus on Culture
2007.06.01


- Accidents kill 100,000 Chinese children every year: report
- Play a rare commodity for children in Chinese cities
- China to ban removal of cultural relics older than 1911
- Han-style wedding ceremony in Beijing (photos)
- Dunhuang frescoes enter the digital age

Focus on Culture
2007.05.25


- China to become 3rd biggest travel destination
- Chinese scholars call for Mother's Day with Chinese characteristics
- China to announce selected intangible cultural heritage inheritors
- New "Grand View Garden" to be built
- Busy museum needs more volunteers

Focus on Culture
2007.05.11


- Parents using Net to find friends for their children
- Chinese children's play sites shrinking: survey
- Ancient Art-form Unveiled at Paper-cutting Festival
- "Steel box" sails off to salvage ancient ship
- Ethnic minorities culture exhibition (photos)
- Dream night of Potala Palace (gorgeous photos)

Focus on Culture
2007.05.04


- Long March to be broadcast in the United States
- Miao ethnic group festival in SW China (fabulous costume alert)
- Tiny shoes leave an eloquent footprint in new museum

Focus on Culture
2007.04.27


- Record numbers expected to travel over Golden Week holiday
- An american couple teach as volunteer in China
- New pedestrian street featuring life of old Beijing takes shape
- "Ceramic House" in Tianjin (15 photos)
- Wang tops list of surnames
- Zhuang people dance for cultural festival (colourful photos)

Focus on Culture
2007.04.13


- China to send 20,000 graduates to work in rural areas
- Dragon dance for peony festival in Henan (photos)
- Ancient garden celebrates birthday (photos)
- 'Collection' of Ancient Homes Sparks Debate in Shanghai (photos)
- Average life expectancy in Beijing exceeds 80
- Jackie Chan, Jet Li pair up for action epic

Focus on Culture
2007.04.06


- Sweep. Pray. Weep. Visit ancestors (photos)
- Silk Road set to be tourism hotspot
- China to send 5,500 urban medics to countryside
- Shanghai guide dogs kept on a short leash
- Nine Chinese digital TV channels warned against airing prohibited programs

Focus on Culture
2007.03.30


- Students urged to laugh out loud
- Dragon Statue in Central China Sparks Controversy (photos)
- Chinese professor uses blog to defend academic freedom
- Modern way of inking
- I'm Not a Spokesperson for Chinese
- Two Hollywood movies pass China's official examination

Focus on Culture
2007.03.23


- Father and son - a Confucian collision
- New pair of pandas selected for HK (photo)
- "Pea Princess" loses her Mr. Right just a month after marriage (photo)
- Child Picassos?
- Ancient town at end of Great Wall to be restored
- Expat Corner: Salsa dancing takes city by storm

Focus on Culture
2007.03.16


- Children of the 80s show talent for trouble
- China to Begin Grand Canal Restoration Project (photos)
- Underground Park Planned for Shanghai
- Chinese Artist Wins Int'l Pressed Flower Competition (amazing photos)
- Superstitious decorator paints mountain to change his 'feng shui'
- ABCs of East-West love

Focus on Culture
2007.03.09


- Who will carry on the lantern craft?
- Need to succeed draining children's energy, parents' money
- Tiger king Kang Kang started life as a puppy
- More than one million parking spaces needed in Beijing
- Yao Ming tops Forbes list
- Grand Canal as great as Great Wall

Focus on Culture
2007.03.02


- Curse of red envelope strikes Chinese people during Spring Festival
- Railways transport 100 million passengers during 25-day Spring Festival travel rush
- Lion dance competitions highlight Myanmar-Chinese new year celebration (photo)
- Documentary 'The Blood of Yingzhou District' Wins Oscar
- Tea Capital Reclaims Ancient Name
- China to tighten drug safety checks after revoking 353 medicine licenses

Focus on Culture
2007.02.23


- Traditional celebration of Spring Festival (photo gallery)
- Lunar new year, a golden chance for Mickey to win hearts of Chinese
- China's caesarean section birth ratio dwarfs WHO standard
- Traditional Chinese new year paintings favored by collectors
- Weanling panda cubs start to learn fending for selves

Focus on Culture
2007.02.16


- LEDs bring cheer, savings to lunar new year
- Report raises "brain drain" alert
- Migrants fuel Guangzhou baby boom
- Olympic mascots to star in own cartoon series
- China to measure length of Great Wall
- New Spin on Old Tricks

Focus on Culture
2007.02.09


- "Golden pigs" deliver blessings (cute photo)
- Start of spring days celebrated across China (photos)
- Chinese scientist: pollen clues revealed on terracotta warriors, horses
- China Chooses Candidates for Cultural Heritage List
- Survey: Half of Chinese dislike being forced to drink
- Only 4000 of China's 24,000 surnames remain

Focus on Culture
2007.02.02


- Red lanterns out to welcome Spring Festival (photos)
- Manners campaign goes national
- Village Woman Paints Unusual Story (photo)
- Love giant pandas? Name them (warning: extremely cute photos)
- Lacquer Thread Sculpture shows in Xiamen (photos)
- Traditional Chinese Goods Favorites Among Travelers in China

Focus on Culture
2007.01.19


- Losing the games of their parents
- China releases bilingual Library of Chinese Classics
- Why Chinese humor is so damn funny
- Museum mulls fate of Starbucks
- China's university tuition 25 times higher than in 1989
- Higher soy intake, balanced diet can reduce mortality

Focus on Culture
2007.01.12


- A French father and his 31 Chinese children
- More Firecrackers for Spring Festival in Beijing
- A fine year to marry, divorce
- Drug-ravaged province to open 22 new methadone clinics in southwest China
- Adding spice to alphabet soup

Focus on Culture
2007.01.05


- Christmas comes to Beijing, Shanghai
- Survey: Asian students care more about their looks
- World's biggest Ice and Snow Park opens to public (photos)
- Canadian Auditions for Lin Daiyu
- China has 217 pandas bred in captivity
- Year of the Pig