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Japanese war orphans in China

Feature | Culture and history
2010-8-21

FOR Gao Fengqin, the worst horror of World War II happened in the closing days. "I still remember the day my mother took me to a small restaurant to meet my new Chinese mother," says Gao, now 70 years old. "I had noodles...

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Following a grave robber to his noble ancestor's tomb

Feature | Culture and history
2010-8-17

A great discovery of 1,000-year-old relics was made by tracking the modern grave robbers who had plundered before and were returning to the scene of the crime. Archeologists found the tomb of the legendary literati...

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Maritime museum to weigh anchor

Feature | Culture and history
2010-7-7

THE spectacular China Maritime Museum ?shaped like a billowing sail and housing a replica of an ancient junk ?opens to all seafarers and landlubbers on Sunday in Nanhui of the Pudong New Area overlooking Hangzhou Bay. ...

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Tranquil temples to transport you

Feature | Culture and history
2010-6-12

FENGXIAN District has renovated, rebuilt and meticulously restored a number of temples to attract pilgrims and tourists to the scenic area in Shanghai's southwest. Tan Weiyun pays a visit and burns some incense. Baojing...

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A celebration of Taipei's splendid culture

Feature | Culture and history
2010-6-5

TAIPEI and Shanghai are both international, inclusive and diverse cities with open spirits and over the years they have communicated and cooperated with each other in many fields. Last year the Shanghai Culture...

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Ho Tung's Residence

Feature | Culture and history
2010-5-26

ADDRESS: 457 Shaanxi Rd N. Admission: It seems nobody will stop you from entering. You can appreciate the house from outside and wander in the garden. The hot pot restaurant nearby offers a good view of the garden....

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1990 - 2010 Twenty years of Pudong

Feature | Culture and history
2010-4-17

TWENTY years ago tomorrow, China proclaimed the development and opening-up of Shanghai's Pudong, then vast stretches of farmland and villages. Today, the Pudong New Area is a forest of high-rises, a center of...

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Xintiandi's Shikumen Wulixiang Introduction

Feature | Culture and history
2010-4-8

SHANGHAI'S shikumen houses - shikumen literally meaning "stone gate" - are the southern counterpart to Beijing's four-sided, enclosed courtyard, hutong. The two are truly unique in China in that they both represent...

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Lantern riddles and guessing games light up the brain waves

Feature | Culture and history
2010-2-26

THE Lantern Festival, which falls on Sunday this year, is a time to appreciate the night sky filled with lanterns, and especially to appreciate the wide-eyed children captivated by the lights. But there's another...

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Digging earth and sky

Feature | Culture and history
2010-2-24

CHINA'S new breed of archeo-astronomers studies the heavens as well as prehistory on Earth, notably a 4,100-year-old observatory where late Neolithic star-gazers accurately charted the seasons for legendary Emperor...

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China's very own dinotopia

Feature | Culture and history
2010-2-22

IN the early 1970s, an undergraduate geology student on vacation had just returned home to Nanyang in Xixia County, Henan Province. He was strolling around a quaint stone village when he noticed something strange about...

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The DNA from Three Kingdoms

Feature | Culture and history
2010-2-1

THE game is afoot, the hunt is on, the mystery is unfolding about one of China's greatest and most ruthless warlords, the notorious Cao Cao from the Three Kingdoms Period (AD 208-280). For years, no one knew the...

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Monks, money and mouses

Feature | Culture and history
2010-1-23

THE material world encroaches on one Tibetan monastery in Qinghai Province where young monks surf the Net and record teachers on MP3. Older monks suggest they're getting lost on the path to nirvana. Zhou Yan and Lu...

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Grandma's famous dumplings, peasant Picassos and games

Feature | Culture and history
2010-1-9

LI Juguan is a farm wife celebrity cook, using a huge old wood-fired stove and oven to turn out country cooking for visitors, some who travel all the way from downtown Shanghai for Grandma Li's cooking. Li and...

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Recalling the man who opened China's classics to the West

Feature | Culture and history
2009-11-30

THE man who translated "A Dream of Red Mansions" into its classic English text (1974) is being mourned as a distinguished intellectual who made it his life's work to introduce great Chinese literature to the English-speaking...