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The newly elected Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held its first plenary session in Beijing on November 2. Among other things, it elected Zhao Ziyang its general secretary; Zhao ...

UPDATED: April 9, 2008 The Dalai Lama -- Episode I: Tenzin Gyatso born in Qinghai The 14th Dalai Lama was born in Daktse Village in Qinghai. He was the son of Tibetan peasants ...

It was about 5:45 a.m. on a blustery Saturday morning in Tiananmen Square. Seven friends and myself decided to bike halfway across the city from Tsinghua University in Haidian District to Tiananmen ...

Yang Xiong was elected mayor of Shanghai at the first session of the 14th municipal People's Congress on Friday, the local legislature announced. Yang, born in 1953, was appointed vice mayor of ...

China's best-known film director Zhang Yimou remade his movie masterpiece Raise the Red Lantern into a ballet in 2001, which was performed by NBC with music from the Symphony Orchestra of China. The ...

Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 This Law is formulated to assure food safety, and safeguard people's health and life. Article 2 Whenever the following activities are carried out in the ...

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In 1934, the popularity of Chinese drama reached a new peak when Lei Yu (Thunderstorm) was published in Literature Quarterly Volume 1 No.3. The author, Cao Yu, who later became China's most renowned ...

General Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) (better known as Chang Hsueh-liang), Commander of the Northeastern Army and co-organizer of the 1936 Xi'an Incident, and son of Zhang Zuolin (1875-1928), a powerful ...