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
2004.12.10


- Views on filial piety reflect changing society
- Chinese tourists may travel to US soon
- "Gold collar" professionals increasing
- Family tree makes comeback
- Ethnic clothes set int'l fashion trends
- Beijing tries "cars for cash" move

Focus on Culture
2004.12.03


- How do you raise a child in today's China?
- Divorce rises with changing marriage, love
- Heavy fog falls on great part of China
- Ming Dynasty coffin uncovered
- Scholar makes bid to revive traditional names
- Survey: Chinese people's medical expenses increase dramatically

Focus on Culture
2004.11.26


- Shopping trips fashionable around Christmas season
- People paying more for Christmas dinner
- China aims to be No. 1 destination
- Marriage and the "me" generation (traditional wedding photo)
- Ming Dynasty dish fetches $5.7m (photo)
- 3 200-year-old fire engines found in Guangdong

Focus on Culture
2004.11.19


- First special policewoman to protect Beijing kindergarten
- China issues 1st set of stamps on family names
- Obesity threatens Chinese
- Color Ringtone the new trend in China
- Bigger storage pushes more Chinese to get new e-mail
- Red-crowned cranes arrive in Yellow River Delta for winter

Focus on Culture
2004.11.12


- 80% senior citizens to live alone by 2010
- Pets bring pleasure, problems to urbanites
- Push for panda as Olympic mascot
- Toilet renovation starts sanitation revolution
- Chinese becomes the second popular foreign language in the US
- Curator -- a burgeoning profession in China

Focus on Culture
2004.11.05


- Lucky year induces more women to give birth
- Bid to curb smoking in school
- Overburdened students refuse weekend classes
- Shanghai, Beijing the top cities in China
- Temple of Earth under restoration (photo)
- "Cry Bar" lets out your stress

Focus on Culture
2004.10.29


- China orders overhaul in kindergarten, school security
- Chinese living in 'fast lane'
- Beijing to rebuild old imperial palace
- 80% of senior citizens to live alone in 2010
- Plan to rebuild Silk Road in making
- Ke Ke Xi Li: an uncompromising hit

Focus on Culture
2004.10.22


- Beijing sticks tough to one-child policy
- 1500 erhu players seek record (photos)
- Double Ninth Day coming up amid drums
- Panda love in the air, bears seek new mates
- Dragon and lion dance, a carried-on tradition in modern China
- Methane pits kindle sanitary revolution in rural areas

Focus on Culture
2004.10.15


- One-quarter of Shanghai's kids consider suicide
- 200 mln Chinese overweight, obesity expected to rise sharply
- Wedding revolution sweeps nation
- Forbidden City reopens Treasure Museum (photos)
- Vegetables helpful in autumn
- Gorgeous scenes of Huanglong (photos)

Focus on Culture
2004.10.08


- China to link all households by phone by 2020
- Foreigners welcome "green card"
- Today's living styles - ease and convenience
- Centuries-old Huizhou culture catches attention
- Going to the movies remains top pastime
- China's dancing arts R&D center for children inaugurates

Focus on Culture
2004.10.01


- Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
- A psalm of autumn (great photos)
- Mooncakes take the bite of packaging
- 16 Chinese TV channels land in US
- Students gripe about English class
- Sky-high priced jade necklace on show (photo)

Focus on Culture
2004.09.24


- Traditional values give way to the mall
- 3.67m Guangzhou travelers to hit the road
- Chefs cook-up capital dishes
- South China tigers to take trip to South Africa
- Chinese ethnic written language applies for intangible world heritage
- Last inheritress of China's female-specific languages dies

Focus on Culture
2004.09.17


- How to savor the best of moon cakes
- A day off wanted for Mid-Autumn Festival
- Many Chinese forget how to write their language: survey
- Purity of Chinese language debated
- Fashion schoolbags and equality
- Costume changes decipher China's century-old social changes

Focus on Culture
2004.09.10


- The legacy and future of the Chinese language
- Why are mooncake prices so, so high?
- Generation gap widens
- "Cuju," the ancient predecessor of football, to be revived in east China
- Toddlers learn to swim (great photo)
- Buffer zone to safeguard Forbidden City

Focus on Culture
2004.08.20


- China pushes kindergarten security
- First foreign couple get marriage certificate in Guangzhou
- Modernisation threatens dialects in China
- Experts blame TV for growing obesity among children
- Pondering on celebrity culture
- Free meteorological data website launched in China

Focus on Culture
2004.08.13


- Incentives offered to families with girls
- New Guangzhou airport operates smoothly
- Stars, spaceman top poll for youth
- 250 million-year-old cliff pictures discovered in SW China
- HK Disneyland to combine Western, Chinese cuisine
- Beijing issues yellow alert on power shortage

Focus on Culture
2004.08.06


- Should we try to raise wolves, or stick to sheep?
- China to issue special stamps of rare tiger
- Myanmar builds underground museum for largest jade stone
- 150th anniversary of graduation of first Chinese student studying in US
- New Silk Road's Tibetan-style fineries (photos)
- Chinese spend 250 bln yuan on weddings each year

Focus on Culture
2004.07.30


- Chinese dragons might originate from boars: archeologists
- China's first revolutionary army of women remains adored
- "Papa" is the daddy of ancient language
- Terracotta warriors draw more than 70 million visitors in the past 30 years
- Tibetan Buddhism resumes top-degree academic exams
- Some 100 million Chinese continue to suffer iodine deficiency

Focus on Culture
2004.07.23


- "Re-experience the Long March": China to launch "red tourism" project
- "Ghostdrivers" take edge off drunk driving
- China's drivers put best foot forward
- Beijing tops costly cities for living on the Chinese mainland
- Expert panel to correct English on public signs
- Hair in China today-black is beautiful

Focus on Culture
2004.07.16


- Most polluted cities in China listed
- Campaign on AIDS awareness to sweep China
- Violent programs banned before 11pm in Jiangxi
- Soong Mei Ling's old residence appeals to trendsetters
- First dog market opens in Beijing
- Bears sip cola to stay cool

Focus on Culture
2004.07.09


- 'Care For Girls' gaining momentum
- Preserving Beijing in their own ways
- Campaign launched to rejuvenate Chinese poetry
- History of Chinese marriage certificates
- Bigger role in store for private schools
- Intangible heritage Qunqu opera melts into modern life

Focus on Culture
2004.07.02


- Imbalance gender ratio a worry of China
- Chinese student gives gift of life
- Money Game: Rotating illusion of getting wealthy
- Shaolin Temple applies for trademark registration in over 80 countries
- Largest jade sculpture of Buddha
- Trial divorce saves marriage

Focus on Culture
2004.06.25


- Chinese wrap up glutinous rice, commemorate ancient poet
- When east meets west in Dragon Boat Festival in HK
- Leaning pagoda to be protected (photo)
- Entering the Forbidden City: From courtiers to common tourists
- Inksticks write an interesting page in China's history
- New findings throw limelight on Peking Man site

Focus on Culture
2004.06.18


- Panda pregnant after watching videos
- Terracotta warriors at Qinshihuang's mausoleum: 8th world wonder
- Pictures of the Terracotta warriors
- Drug use of youngsters on the rise
- China's urban population hits 338 mln
- Imperial dragon drum of Qing dynasty unveiled (photo)

Focus on Culture
2004.06.11


- China seeks way to care for the aged
- China has over 1,750 giant pandas: survey
- Ancient City of Pingyao: Picture of Han life hundreds of years ago
- Inferior toys: growing threat to children's health
- Chinese acrobatics draws foreign learners
- Double eyelids, double luck in future?

Focus on Culture
2004.06.04


- Chinese children's reader challenges Harry Potter
- Chinese middle-class families defined
- Children's Day marked in China
- China to spend more on children's movies, cartoons
- English tests trigger gold rush in China
- 172 rare monkeys rescued in Guangxi

Focus on Culture
2004.05.28


- 10 million Chinese kids lack parental care
- Single children growing up, marrying
- 107 People Banned from Driving for Life in Jiangsu
- Reintroduction sites selected for Chinese endangered tigers
- Lack of sleep major threat to Chinese teenagers' health
- Lang Lang named goodwill ambassador

Focus on Culture
2004.05.21


- China should focus on preservation of traditional culture: expert
- The hole trend (photos)
- Women more likely than men to succeed as entrepreneurs: survey
- The "red heart" of 1928
- Red-hot passion
- Wild orchids disappearing in China

Focus on Culture
2004.05.14


- More centenarians living in Tianjin
- China gets old before getting rich
- Youth given ID cards amid controversy
- China, Canada launch social service project fo rural women
- Tibet has more mobile phone users than fixed phones users
- Hip hop in China

Focus on Culture
2004.05.07


- Editorial on Taachers in China
- Individuals encouraged to buy siheyuans (photo)
- Abacus man looks for apprentice in vain
- Spring auction offers rare blossoms
- Chinese businessman collects 10,000 ancient Buddhist sculptures
- Weddings rake in big money

Focus on Culture
2004.04.30


- Holiday to see 90m travellers
- Calligraphy with 100 tools
- 900-year-old Forest of Steles to compete for World Heritage listing
- Video game shows face demise
- Hedges broken to facilitate free flow of migrant workers
- Shanghai to grade bilingual schools

Focus on Culture
2004.04.23


- Tough action to wipe out "killer" milk powder
- Journey into the past
- Weifang International Kite Game kicks off
- Yin oracle bone scripts to go under hammer (photos)
- TV prime time for children
- No more tears in heaven, but at funerals

Focus on Culture
2004.04.16


- "One child" generation grows up to face strained family relations
- China recruits volunteers to teach mandarin overseas
- Notice issued to protect cultural heritage
- China's 2003 top 10 archaeological findings
- China has inoculated tens of millions newborns against hepatitis B
- Female entrepreneurs face physical exhaustion

Focus on Culture
2004.04.09


- More youngsters suffer hypertension
- Chinese intellectuals die young
- 2000-year-old imperial palace unearthed in Xi'an
- She was born for dancing (great costume photos)
- China's super-luxe trains to debut
- Story of a horsehead fiddle artist

Focus on Culture
2004.04.02


- Beijing's population to hit over 15 million in 2008
- More pay tribute to dead loved ones
- Beauty contests gain popularity
- Ancient Chinese kiln ruins to compete to enter World Heritage list
- English, a language you have to learn?
- Books in rare ancient characters of Shui group retrieved

Focus on Culture
2004.03.26


- In the classes, kids are partners
- Stampede injures 19 students in central China primary school
- Govt concerned about youngsters' moral conduct
- Guangzhou may dim city lights
- Fengshui has big appeal in Shanghai
- Dad asks: "Who's my kid's papa?"

Focus on Culture
2004.03.19


- China to correct Great-Wall-in-space myth
- Call for 5 more annual holidays
- Zhang Daqian's Last Painting Unveiled in SW China (photo)
- Internet becomes "matchmaker" for young Chinese
- China shuts down 677 state newspapers
- Ruins of ancient iron-casting workshops unearthed in central China

Focus on Culture
2004.03.12


- Making little lives happier
- Wild spotted deer back in northern China
- Plan aims to save dying folk culture
- Overwork shortens life span of professionals in Beijing
- Multiplication table from 1,800 years ago found in Hunan
- Soong Ching-ling's handwritten letters to be published

Focus on Culture
2004.03.05


- China Women's Culture Month opens in Beijing
- More Shanghai Couples Adopt Simple Procedure to Divorce
- Aging society approaches China with hurry steps
- Urban China's new wave of platonic cohabitation
- China reports 800,000 deaf kids under seven
- Ancient Chinese culinary ware exhibition to be held in HK

Focus on Culture
2004.02.27


- It's spring, and jobs are in the air
- Survey: four sectors in desperate need of skilled workers
- Renovation of world heritage sites in Beijing to gear up
- "Jade Age" existed in China 5,000 years ago: experts
- Archaeologists find dragon artifacts
- Triplet tiger cubs (cute photos)

Focus on Culture
2004.02.20


- Giant Panda Photos
- Hot cup, hot trend
- Beijing to put up satellite towns of half-million population
- Tibet prepares for Tibetan New Year
- Taller children stir debate for 1.1-meter line adjustment
- We are generation Y!

Focus on Culture
2004.02.13


- New home awaits giant panda Hua Mei in Sichuan
- US-born panda Hua Mei arrives home
- 'Pain in the neck' is a thing of the past in Xinjiang
- China's Valentine's Day love affair
- Family ties maintained in alienating modern society
- More than 70% of drug addicts are youths under 35

Focus on Culture
2004.02.06


- Time for lanterns and more changes, possibly
- Photos: Lantern Festival celebrated across China
- 37 people dead in Lantern Festival in outskirts of Beijing
- Hollywood blockbuster wins China holiday box office crown
- Women shaping new lives
- Beijing to build two new Christian churches

Focus on Culture
2004.01.30


- Children learn to be strong at "Boy Scouts"
- "City of ice" gives warm welcome to holidaymakers
- Chinese girls go wild for "artificial beauty"
- Online tax payment system launched in Beijing
- Chinese accept "dink" values
- Health jitters shortening China's menus

Focus on Culture
2004.01.23


- Wildlife park stirs controversy by dyeing its monkeys
- Folk artist makes largest ceiling-decoration paper-cut
- Housekeepers in short supply during Spring Festival
- "Festival syndrome" hurting many
- Lunar festival means really big spending
- More people prefer dining at home on Lunar New Year's Eve as tradition stages comeback

Focus on Culture
2004.01.16


- Railway passengers soaring in run-up to Chinese New Year
- What do monkeys mean to you
- 1st kindergarten opens for handicapped children
- Traditional paper-cutting links small county with world
- Rare inscriptions unearthed
- Woes of China's literary magazines

Focus on Culture
2004.01.09


- Photo News: Spring Festival traffic peak starts
- Stamp gifts for Year of Monkey
- Children's channel now on air
- Chinese mainland emigrants to US younger, more women
- Wild meat to remain on Guangdong dinner table
- Museums becoming relics?