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Dining is more than food for the body － it is food for the soul. In this country the emphasis seems to be on speed, mass production, uniformity and anonymity. The art of really living life is fast becoming extinct. － Carol De Masters

Chinese press and blog circles frequently have uproars over small matters; a recent example was the translation of “行百里者半九十”, quoted by Premier Wen in a speech; (the quotation was from a document of the Warring States era) the interpreter translated it into
–Half of the people who have embarked on a one hundred mile journey [...]

A book written by Lu Shi’e (陆士谔) in 1910 fortold the event of Shanghai World Expo in a very fasinating way. Lu, a Qing dynasty novelist and doctor, wrote a fictional book entitled New China (新中国) when he was 32 years old, in which the protagonist “dreamed” of Shanghai’s bustling business, subway, Pudong Bridge and above all, the opening of Shanghai World Expo exactly a hundred years later.

How do the Chinese see, hear, smell, taste,touch,feel and fantasize about their world? What are the shared memories underlying Chinese culture and arts? Jiang Xun (蒋勋), a celebrated aesthetics scholar and essayist from Taiwan, talks about the exquisite world of sensibilities and shared memories of the Chinese.

This article presents 11 short stories that explain various ideas of Chinese mythology and philosophy.
Shenlong（the divine dragons) 神龙
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when Nuwa woke up, the sun was already high in the sky; though she covered her face with some leaves and branches, the bright light still shone though
she turned her body towards the forest side; as she moved [...]

This dust too shall pass, and when it does, Beijing’s very brief spring season will begin. Now, everyone knows that while spring is pleasant in Beijing, it is both fleeting and a poor cousin to autumn. But we’ll take those lemons and make lemonade with them.

The Internet and China are in the news together this week, with a whole lot of bluster about Google’s operations there, or not there, or somewhere. We’re not touching that one. However, China’s Internet is a vibrant place — it has the most users of any country, and some major companies have emerged, some of which are or will give their Silicon Valley compatriots a run for a lot of money.

Xia Da （夏达）, a girl of 28 from Hunan province, found herself suddenly rising to fame across the nation lately. According to her wish, this should come from her successful cartoon Zi Bu Yu （子不语, Confucius Says Not）which explores the delicate world of supernatural visions from a 9-year-old girl’s perspective and was published on Japanese Ultra Jump.

1. Introduction
Mention “Confucius” to a typical Western audience, the immediate reaction is likely to be one of amusement – “Confucius says” followed by a pompous, sometimes ludicrous, occasionally smutty, statement is a frequently used way to tell a bad joke. The only Westerners to take Confucius serious are students and Asian Culture scholars who make [...]

One of the top showcases for films from Hong Kong and the rest of China opened Monday, with the Asian Film Awards kicking off the Hong Kong International Film Festival.