For an early age you could tell my grandmother was different. She was precocious and beautiful. An artist, a spy and a beauty her life was a whirlwind.
People often say that we should not judge a person by his or her appearance, but what is the real definition of beautiful?
Chinese vlogger Alex kicks off the Christmas season with her Christmas gift list.
This tutorial teaches you how to do makeup for interviews to give a good first impression to your potential employers. Part one explains how to choose and apply base.
Chinese people are very hospitable. When going to someone's home, Chinese tea makes a good gift for the host.
Making tofu skin is very hard, especially when you have to put your fingers into a pot of boiling soy milk.
One of the most important ingredients in a vegetarian meal is the tofu skin. In order to buy the best tofu skin, the food purchaser Auntie Wang found a factory that is about three hours away from Shanghai.
In this first of a 15-part series about supply and demand, consumption, global markets, gas prices, oil - and much more - listen to an international panel of experts weigh in on the issues.
In this second video of a series about oil, supply and demand, consumption, and global markets, listen to our guests talk about how they see the rising price of gasoline affecting people's daily lives.
As an only recent mass consumer of oil, how has China been affected by the oil crises of the past? In this third video in a series about oil, supply and demand, consumption, and global markets, listen to our experts weigh in on China's role in how these crises have played out.
What do our experts think caused the world's current oil crisis? Find out as they each respond to the question in this fourth video in our series about oil, supply and demand, consumption, and global markets
Listen to an international panel of experts weigh in on the issues in this fifth video of a series about supply and demand, consumption, global markets, gas prices, oil and much more.
Will the world face another oil crisis in the future? What conditions could potentially cause one? How might one be prevented? In this sixth video in our "Brain Storm" series about oil markets, listen as our audience – as well as Mr. Long and Mr. Huntington – weigh in.
How does our expert, Mr. Ke Yan, feel about the possibility of a coming oil crisis? Have a listen and find out in this seventh episode from our "Brain Strom" series on oil, supply and demand, and global markets.
In this eighth part of our "Brain Storm" series, learn about China's current and future oil consumption. Also, listen to what some of our experts have to say about which issues are currently most in need of being addressed.
Oil will not last forever. Issues of energy efficiency and conservation are of the utmost importance as we head into the future. Watch this ninth video in our "Brain Storm" series and find out how our panel of experts sees these issues as they pertain to China.
This story is about Han Prime Minister Cao Cao's six-year-old son, Cao Chong (196 to 208 B.C.). The theory this little boy used to weigh an elephant is similar to Archimedes' Principle (287 to 212 B.C.), which is that the weight of an object submerged in fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid.
This well-known story commonly used to educate children on the values of courtesy and fraternal love involves four-year-old Kong Rong giving up some larger pears to his older and younger brothers. Still employed in current times, this text has been used for elementary education since the Song Dynasty.
This idiom indicates that something seemingly bad may turn out to have been a good thing in the end, a blessing in disguise. The story in the video explains it quite well. And, while the idiom can also have the opposite meaning (a good thing becoming something bad), the former is more frequently used.
There are many different Chinese idioms out there that people use today in modern Chinese. "Dui Niu Tan Qin" literally means, "Playing the Zither for a Cow." It means that some people will just never understand or appreciate certain things.
This video concerns one of the stories from the very famous Chinese novel, "Journey to the West." It informs us from where the idiom, "to wolf down your food," originates.
This Chinese legend sheds light on the origin of the famous saying, "How you treat others is how you will be treated." It involves the famous and influential Chinese philosopher, Mencius, giving sage advice to a king during the Warring States period.
This idiom is used as a metaphor for the punishment of a person to alert others to correct their behavior.
Learn the story behind the saying, "To kill two birds with one stone."
Hear the story from which the saying, "Hun Shui Mo Yu" came about. It means to take advantage of a chaotic time or deliberately create confusion to obtain benefits.
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