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
- Child abuse on the rise in Guangdong - Wedding ceremony dates back to 3,000 years ago (photos) - Beijing to have proper English names for all public signs - China's Homemade Mulan to Resume Traditional Image - "Chinese Picassos" in Shanghai (photo) - Survey: Nearly 70% Beijing hutongs destroyed
- Curse of the Golden Flower, curse of the box office? (photo) - 1,300-year-old Boat-shaped Tombs Excavated in NW China (photos) - Shanghai: neighborhood schools opened to expat kids - 8,000 elderly people participate in web page designing contest - 2006 season of Beijing Dance Academy opens (photos)
- Project Hope Photo Sets High Hopes at 1st Photo Auction (photo) - New way to honor the dead - Dragon report sparks debate - Empress Dowager Cixi's luxurious life (photos) - Suzhou Creek clean-up on track - Palm-size newborn survives birth in Shanghai
- "Loving heart" families offer orphans future hope - Shanghai to issue allowances to seniors - China outlaws inscribing names on Great Wall - Bruce Lee theme park set to open in Guangdong - Featuring the architecture of the Forbidden City by outfits (cool photos) - Soong Chingling's former residence reopens (photo)
- Doctors try to save China's first "mermaid" baby - Chinese style wedding for foreigners (photos) - Miao girls celebrate Lusheng Festival (fabulous costumes) - Festival showcases Yao culture (more great costumes) - Documentary Forbidden City premieres - 'Bathing Women' Pioneer Honoured
- Mountains witness Chinese history (photos) - Record 31 pandas bred, 28 still living - Twelve Girls Band Performance Taped for Broadcast in US - Take a last look at HK Central Pier before closure (photos) - "Historic Towns of China" to end life membership - Shaolin martial arts textbook published
- "Ladder of love" story wins place in Chinese hearts - Chinese view of marriage romantic and practical - China's top 10 "home-made" cartoons revealed (photo) - Chinese-Canadian wins Giller Prize - China avoids birth of 400 million with family planning - China wants 50 billion yuan donated to charity annually
- Terrifying new trend: Halloween takes off - Official hopes Chinese astronauts can see Great Wall from space - China to investigate Great Wall through high-tech means - Popularity of porcelain replicas revives ancient kilns - Sun Yat-sen's tunic suit may become cultural heritage - Over 500 rainwater-collecting projects to be built in Beijing
- Survey: Chinese women like to be viewed as elegant, intelligent, healthy and sexy - China's richest teacher plans to purchase colleges - Grand Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang (photo gallery) - Chinese version of game solving hunger to be launched - Seawater to generate electricity in Shandong - Chinese get genetic tests to determine disease risk
- Good Girl's Burning Desire to Walk on Wild Side - China's Terracotta Warriors face growing mould threat - 7th Chinese Handicraft Masterworks Exhibition (photos) - Empress Wu Buddha-worship Ceremony (costume photos) - Idea of abolishing traditional Chinese medicine ridiculed - Number of Chinese with brittle bones triples in 30 years
- Woman tops China's rich list - Beluga whales helping children with autism in China - "Palace Museum", "Forbidden City" become China's name brands - Chinese model first to crack Western market - Schwarzenegger celebrates Moon Festival - Shenzhen: sand sculptures bring transient art (photos)
- Holiday-goers lost and found in the world's largest square - Handmade moon cakes greet Mid-Autumn Festival (photos) - Market still craves luxurious mooncakes - China Publishes Standard Portrait of Confucius (photo of course) - Two Chinese Movies to Vie For Oscar (photos) - Unique Skin Painting in Guilin
- Paying tutors to play with kids - Girl, 11, wins global book deal - 49 obsolete Chinese words in the last decade, Part IV - Magnificent Leshan Buddha attracts tourists (photos) - A third of households in W China cannot afford middle school fees - 41 Liaoning teachers divorce to keep job
- 4 mln Chinese-teaching jobs needed around world - "Ancient" Chinese school to open (really cute photo) - Race for kids to get ahead starts early, very early - From the Brushes of Babes - Rising incidence of birth defects in China rings alarm - Survey: More than half of kids have tooth decay
- China to boost cultural development - Cuju, predecessor of soccer applies for world nonmaterial heritage (photos) - Digitization of Mogao Grottoes (photos) - 200,000 bookstores to be set up for farmers by 2010 - Females leading good life in Beijing - Drowning now biggest killer of school children
- China to ready domestic tourists' behaviors for 2008 Olympics - Older terracotta figurines found (photo) - TV Crew Damages Cultural Site - Shanghai prepares for ban on cartoons - Ancient brothel sparks debate over historic site preservation
- Heaviest giant panda baby is born - Relocation of residents begins for Shanghai Disneyland - 10-year-old university student evokes controversy - New Evidence suggests longer paper making history in China - Games on water (photos) - Kids sent back to China to experience culture
- Chinese Valentine's Day celebrated (photos) - China's most expensive animated film to be released - Girl wooed by 9 U.S. universities - Giant Panda Habitat Makes World Heritage List - China Scores Another World Heritage Listing with Yin Ruins - Another killer typhoon heading for south China
- Centuries-old Buddhist Leaf Scriptures to Be Preserved - Dolphin draws its own world (photos) - Parents send children to golf training for high-class manners - Clothes shopping becomes hot pastime in China - China's first lantern museum opens - Well-educated male au pairs gain popularity in Beijing
- It's a long way home for abducted children - Disney Musical Debuts in Shanghai, Impressing Audience with Chinese Elements - "Silk Road" Int'l Costumes Festival opens in Urumqi (photos) - China has 55 million illiterate women - World Choir Games Opens in SE China City - Universities urged to reform amid fears of brain drain
- Giant Panda Habitat Makes World Heritage List - Chengdu offers cash for panda creations - Summer camp helps foreign youth of Chinese origin seek root - HK Disneyland unveils three new attractions - Coming-of-age ceremony (photos) - Number of elementary schools shrinks in China
- "Warriors" protect hutong with cameras - A glimpse of Wan'an compass (amazing photos) - China approves first 30 national heritage sites - Old man and his ancient pottery collection (photos) - China to promote Mandarin learning around the world - More Books Published for Ethnic Readers
- Program helps more kids with cleft palates smile in China - Clothes That Make a Community - Four Chinese women sweep through at Wimbledon - DNA tests reveal 1st foreign worker in China - Beijing tops Shanghai in cost-of-living - Olympic sculptures on display (photos)
- Father's Day ignored - Palace to enter virtual realm - Expedition adds uncertainty to underwater relics site - Study: Giant panda's future looks brighter - Qinghai-Tibet plateau passenger trains ready to go - First clean fuel buses running on Beijing roads
- Chinese-born artist presents "explosive" exhibition in Canada - Blood donation in China: from obligation to volunteer - China to publish standard portrait of Confucius (photo) - HK issues special stamps on Chinese idioms, stories - 'Beijing Symbols' Face Puzzle in Cultural Relic Protection - Secrets of 'Face-changing' in Chinese Opera Let out Bag
- Centuries-old Papermaking Handwork Faces Extinction - World Largest Buddha Statue to Receive Health Checkup (photo) - Imperial Palace becomes famous trademark - Spielberg's Version of Journey to the West - Zhang Ziyi to Star in Live-action Mulan - Ming dynasty vase's auction price breaks world record
- Dragon boat race ushers in traditional festival (photos) - Dumplings, sachets hot before festival (photos) - Professional translators cannot meet demand - 'Pyramids of China' in Danger of Collapse (photos) - China establishes annual "Cultural Heritage Day" - Asian beauty hot on global catwalks
- Craving lucky numbers in daily life - Frequently used Chinese characters decreasing - Ancient town keeps unique customs (photos) - Desert threatens ruins of ancient city (photos) - Leaning towers in China - Country's oldest "schoolwork" unraveled in Xinjiang
- Getting beyond "ni hao" - Mongolians love Western holidays, but with local flavors - Mother's Day celebrated in Beijing (photos) - Qing Emperor's favorite garden restored in Forbidden City - Funeral Dance of the Tujia People (photo) - 'No car' days help reduce Beijing smog
- China tries to preserve cultural heritage amid construction craze - China selects top 10 archaeological discoveries in 2005 - Cultural heritage around China (great photos) - Han embroidery heritage survives in Wuhan (nine pages of images) - China has 350 million smokers - TB tops list of China's killer infectious diseases in April
- Ten thousand tourists visit Three Gorges Dam on first day of golden week holiday - Chinese find ways to while away leisure time - China highlights nurse shortage - China claims nearly half of world's parkinsonism patients - Sale of "golden books" banned to curb corruption - Imperial prayer hall in Beijing re-opens (photos)
- Police help trafficked children return to loving arms of parents - New move will ensure longer sleep - HK sees more brides from Chinese mainland - Adoptions draw human, animal closer - Nation pins high hopes on green alternatives - Web Generation Musicians Make Themselves Heard
- 1,046th anniversary of Chinese sea goddess Mazu celebrated in E. China - China faces "huge" cultural trade deficit - China, US announce new Chinese language, cultural initiative - Dragon Boat Competition held in Yunnan (photos) - 150,000 Chinese college graduates to work in grass roots - Synopsis of Jasmine Women
- Many cultural relics found in Beijing's construction sites - Ceremony honours China's ancestor - Free admission to parks a long way off - Water-splashing festival starts in Kunming (photos) - Rare Tibet mastiffs on display in Suzhou (photos for dog lovers) - Digital model created for Qin terracotta pit
- Heart of Forbidden City to have facelift - 2/3 career women say it's hard to find Mr. Right - Schools in Guangdong in colossal debt - Traditional Shaoxing Opera Faces Survival Crisis - China becomes the world's hottest tourism destination -
- Mandarin's influence on rise - The Children's World of "Little Red Flowers" - A Tribute to the Voice of the Mongolian Grasslands - School fees under supervision - New school rule in dispute - First degree weights more than master's on job market
- Folk Artist Recreates Life with Scissors - Lei Feng becomes online game hero - TV serial portrays swordsmen's adventures - China tightens control over televised pop talent contests - Pottery works on display in Dalian (fabulous photos)
- China sees third wave of staying single - To keep traditions alive, old festivals need new holidays - Young Chinese struggling for jobs - "Online superstition" poisoning Chinese teenagers: lawmaker - Review: Chinese Music in 2005 - Concern over plight of old people in countryside
- Hong Kong university calls to ban corporal punishment - Urban Chinese women set out priorities - Ballet Dance "Raising Red Lantern" to celebrate 5th anniversary - Fancy Internet words forbidden to appear in news broadcasting - Unlocking the 'Forbidden Garden' (photos) - Butter Sculpture Tradition Melting Away
- Chinese becoming popular with US learners - Worship of phoenix dates back 7,400 years ago - Human Dragon Dance in Guangdong (this is amazing) - China Sets up First Tea Culture School - 50% of pandas funded by individuals, private sector - Recording a vanishing Beijing (great photos)
- Orphans to use new surnames - When 2 generations of only children meet, they fail to recognize each other - Surrogate mother site grows in popularity - Divorce rate surges across China - Of pins, needles and pain relief - Primary school to try out US textbooks
- Valentine's gifts sell hot (photos) - Nation designates Cultural Heritage Day - Cultural traditions immortalized on inventory - Giving old holiday traditions an update - Endangered handicraft sees revival - Sky-high priced kite for sale (photo)
- Mission impossible to retain old Spring Festival flavor - Farmers throw off Spring Festival taboos - Barking dogs bring prosperity for New Year - Kids receive books instead of money as new year's gift - More choices for Chinese annual meal - Temple fairs: A tradition renewed (photos)
- Year of the Dog 'good for marriages' - Array of lanterns light up festival - What is "fu"? - Students pay visit to orphans, disabled - Ancient paintings suggest China invented skiing - Tian'anmen Square's old slabs up for sale
- China issues dog stamps - Tea, a way of Chinese life - Herbal leaves stand for harmony between man and nature - Useful Books for Chinese Language Learners - 25 Chinese records go into Guinness Book in 2005 - Chinese made compulsory subject in English school
- Raising the red lanterns for annual holidays - Cultural industry to drive consumption - China issues stamp album on Olympic Games - Language scheme to help foreigners - Dietary guidelines from the Chinese Nutrition Society (#8 is my favourite) - Beijing to Move Residents out of Traditional Courtyard
- Gold figures of dog (photos) - Cultural Sector to Be Reformed - China begins to salvage precious ancient ship - 21 artificially-bred pandas survive in 2005 - Great Wall Shortlisted for New Seven World Wonders - World's highest Ferris wheel to spin in E. China city