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Resurgent desires - a visit to the Ancient Sex Culture Museum
Chinaview.com.cn April 21, 2004 - BEIJING, April 21 - The China Ancient
Sex Culture Museum, once located in downtown Shanghai near busy Nanjing Donglu,
is about to re-open in its new home in Tongli Town in neighboring Jiangsu
Province.The move to Tongli, 80 km from Shanghai, was forced by a lack of funds
to run the museum and by disagreements with city authorities about advertising
its existence and location. The museum opens its doors once more in Tongli on
April 19, the third time the private museum has been forced to move in the past
five years...
China to Build Digital
Dunhuang Grottoes
CRI Mar. 5, 2004 - China
will invest 200 million yuan or more than US$24 million to build digital
Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. The digital version is so real that tourists will feel
like they are visiting the real grottoes. The world-famous Mogao Grottoes in
Dunhuang are located in northwest China's Gansu Province. The Grottoes date back
to 336 A.D. They are the one of the three major Buddhist art treasures in China
and are the largest in terms of scale of all existing art collections in the
world. The grand grottoes went on the World Heritage List in 1987.
Traditional
Paper-cutting Links Small County with World
Xinhua News, Jan. 14, 2004 - Guangling, a small county in the northern
China province of Shanxi, has found worldwide fame as a cradle of paper-cutting,
a popular folk art in China.
Living for Huangmei Opera
China Daily - Wu,
once the country's leading Huangmei Opera actress, announced last month to the
Beijing press she was preparing to perform two classic Huangmei Opera
repertoires, "Tianxian Pei (A Goddess' Marriage)" and "Nu Fuma (Emperor's Female
Son-In-Law)" at the capital's Grand Chang'an Theatre from Thursday to Sunday.
Porcelain
Capital Struggles to Reclaim Kudos
Xinhua, China, Oct. 30, 2003 - Chinese archeologists are now playing a
massive "jigsaw puzzle" game with porcelain shards in Jingdezhen,
trying to revive the city's fragmentary glory once enjoyed only by the royal
family.
Operatic
Treasure Stages Return
China Daily Oct. 13, 2003 - Kunqu Opera, an old Chinese opera form with a
history of more than 600 years, is set to win back audience, kicking off with
three performances in Beijing from October 17 to 19.
Music
Right from the Heart
China Daily, Oct. 10, 2003 - Music is never far away in the
Dong villages of Liping County in Southwest China's Guizhou Province.
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