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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010The newly crowned Nobel laureate in literature, 74-year-old Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, is no stranger to Chinese readers. Vargas Llosa was introduced to the country in the early 1980s amid the craze for Latin-American writers, including Gabriel Garcia Marquez. By the 1990s, this craze had died down as readers were confronted with more choices. [...]
Study Chinese – Trouble in Textile Town – Chinese Culture
Saturday, November 27th, 2010An art center in Xi’an’s Textile Town. (Photo source: Global Times) By Wu Ziru BEIJING, Oct. 20 (Xinhuanet) — Much like 798 in Beijing and Moganshan in Shanghai, the ancient city of Xi’an in Shaanxi Province has its own art district, Textile Town, where local artists work, live and band together to fight against adversity [...]
Chinese Culture – Shanghai takes Expo as an opportunity to enhance tobacco control work – Study Chinese
Saturday, November 13th, 2010Zhou Di, a waitress at a restaurant in the World Exposition park, has mixed feelings about her past six months. As a heavy smoker, at first Zhou found it very difficult to work at the park since strict anti-smoking measures had been enforced. “I can only smoke in one of the designated areas one hundred [...]
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