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Dear Women of China I read your article on Silk Street before coming to Beijing with my husband on a three-week vacation.It helped a lot,as a     

Ancient Theater Restored to Life

BEIJING Opera fans and foreign tourists who love the "treasure of China" as it was will be delighted to know they can now enjoy Beijing opera in a theater with a more than 280-year history in the art. The Zhengyici Theater is located on Xiheyan Street, Beijing, opposite the famous Hepingmen Beijing Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant. Xiheyan Street, near the Forbidden City, has been there since the settlement of the city and gradually won a reputation as a commercial and cultural center. Most of the residents were     

秀水街里逛出的学问

Located close to the district that houses the United States Embassy,in central Beijing,Silk Street (xiushuijie) market is an eight-story,28,000-square- meter building that can accommodate 1,500 stalls.For     

Beijing Silk Flawers

ON a drizzly day 26 years ago, Man Kaijun, Xue Yufeng, Xu Wenjing and around 100 other middle school graduates lined up in a courtyard near Huashi Street in southern Beijing. This group became the first brach of workers at the Beijing Silk Flower Factory, then a workshop-like factory.     

秀水街的昨天与今天

Old Silk Street老秀水The former outdoor Silk Street (xiushuijie) was not just another tourist destination,it was also a place of really good stories to impress the people back home.The tall tales usually had elements of extremely harsh weather conditions,such as blistering cold temperatures,or scorching heat,given that both Beijing's"Spring"and"Autumn"seasons only lasts a few short weeks.Also, in the tall tales,there would probably be one or two"bargaining battles."A typical story might be:"She wanted 480 y...     

Enjoy Spring Restaurant

BEIJING Peace Hotel sits in Jinyu Hutong beside Wangfujing Street -- the bustling commercial center of Beijing from where Tian'anmen Square and the Forbidden City are just a ten-minute walk away. The hotel with its long history guarantees to provide you with a comfortable home in China's capital.     

EATERY TAKES CLIENTS BACK IN TIME

LOCATED at the corner of Yong'an Street near Tianqiao in south Beijing is an exquisite three-storey white building with upturned eaves, a plain but graceful facade with a hint of the antique. As patrons enter and climb the stairs they catch sight of framed paintings that line the walls along the staircase up     

Memories of Home

COUPLES invited to participate in the '96 Beijing Golden Wedding Anniversary for the World's People's Tour stayed in the Shangri-La Hotel in western Beijing. The large contingent included Chen Dong and his wife Zhang Shujie. Shortly after arriving, one segment of a TV program featuring a Canadian woman recounting her experiences in China in the Chinese language aroused the attention of Zhang Shujie. That woman said she was born in Beijing at a time when her family lived at No.47 Waijiaobu Street. Zhang muttered to herself: "It's No.32 and not No.47." Zhang suddenly remembered     

《面条之路：北京到罗马，爱与意面同在》

On the Noodle Road： From Beijing to Rome with Love and Pasta is a delicious travelogue and memoir chronicling author Jen Lin-Liu＇s journey from China to Italy in search of an answer to the age-old question： Who invented noodles？ Conventional wisdom has it that Marco Polo （1254-1324） took the noodle from China to Europe, across the Silk Road, dtucing the late 13th century. Lin-Liu, however, believes the noodle＇s origin, much like its preparation, is not so cut and dried.     

Sexual Equality, Contradictions Between Beliefs and Reality

"The Beijing Area Study" (BAS) is a large-scale social investigation and research project planned and implemented by the Beijing University Research Centre for Contemporary China together with the Beijing Municipal Government Policy Research Office. The purpose of the survey is to understand the attitudes of Beijing residents towards the changing social atmosphere under a market economy. It also includes some questions related to women's issues.This BAS survey questions people between the ages of 18 and 70, and is carried out once a year, in order to keep a current database.