A trip on the Silk Road
I had a trip to Dunhuang last week. The city is in a desert in the southwest of China that lies along the Silk Road. The most famous places to visit are the Mogao Caves, part of the nation’s key [...]
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Sand Castle Festival
Sand art is the practice of modeling sand into an artistic form, such as a sand brushing, sand sculpture, sand painting, or sand bottles. A sand castle is a type of sand sculpture resembling a miniature building, often a castle. [...]
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Happy birthday United Blogs of Benetton!
Today is a very special day – it’s our birthday and we want to celebrate it with all of you! Send us your birthday greetings or a photo of you, just like our bloggers have done from all over the [...]
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X Games Asia
X Games Asia has been held in Shanghai every May for six years. I attended for the first time and I am a big fan. It was raining in the morning, we all thought the games would have to be [...]
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The aesthetic eyes of Chenman
Chenman is one of China’s most celebrated fashion photographers. She is a commercial photographer who focuses on fashion, beauty and style. She knows how to manipulate the camera to catch people’s eye and that’s why her works are always colorful, [...]
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Hiding in the city (and lost in fashion)
Liu Bolin was born in China’s Shandong province. His work has been exhibited in museums around the world. Also known as “The Invisible Man”, Liu Bolin’s most popular works are from his Hiding in the City series; photographic works that [...]
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Chinese models rock the fashion industry now!
Recently, there are more and more Chinese people becoming famous in the world, in different fields, such as in sport, cinema and the fashion industry. In the fashion industry, we know some famous fashion designers – Alexander Wang, Jason Wu [...]
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Postcards from Hong Kong
Having missing out on Christmas, New Year and Lunar New Year in London for the first time in my adult life, I have been vacating in Hong Kong for the past 2 months and stayed in the rural countryside in north [...]
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The genius we lost and the miracle we found
Recently we lost some talented artists – Whitney Houston and Fong Fei-fei. It was such a pity to hear that sad and startling news. We used to hear their tender voices, their pop songs accompanying us to pass the days. [...]
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A year of Dragons
Last Sunday was the eve of the Lunar New Year. Lunar New Year is the largest and most important annual festival celebrated by the Chinese and Chinese descendants around the world. Lunar New Year brings the world’s largest migration [...]
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Chen Man: shooting and art design
Chen Man is a talented photographer in China and has an exhibition in Shanghai’s MOCA. She was born in 1980 in Inner Mongolia. She returned to Beijing with her parents and then learnt art & design. She began her career [...]
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Pictures from Shanghai Jazz Festival
Many cities have their own and Shanghai has several music festivals. But I think the Shanghai Jazz Festival is the best.