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Digital reincarnation for Dunhuang's Buddhist art
Shanghai :: China | 13 hours ago
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Inching their cameras along a rail inside the chamber, specialists use powerful flashes to light up paintings of female Buddhist spirits drawn more than 1,400 years ago...From the fourth century onwards the 492 largely hand-dug caves near Dunhuang, a
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China's Mogao Grottoes to limit tourist flows
Shanghai :: China | 7 days ago
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World Heritage Site in Northwest China's Gansu province, is to introduce new measures to control visitor flows and prevent damage to the caves' Buddhist frescoes. A stricter mechanism will be introduced in 2014 to control daily tourist volumes at the
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The forgotten town of black gold
Shanghai :: China | 10 days ago
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This is the seventh in a regular series of reports brought together under the banner "Lost Horizons", which aim to show life in the less-reported areas of the country and to give a voice to those whose words often go unheard. Slideshows and video
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Discounts at scenic spots for Labor Day holiday
Jilin :: China | 28 days ago
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A total of 60 5A-level national tourist attractions, 350 4A-level scenic spots and 800 other places will cut prices by 20 percent on average, it said. The list of scenic spots offering preferential prices, including the Yungang Grottoes in northern
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Charmed in Sikkim
Gangtok :: India | 1 month ago
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As we tour Gangtok, we discover that the hills are still alive with beauty When my friend Indu and I sat down to decide on our annual trip, we mutually hit upon Sikkim. Both of us love the mountains; and the lovely pictures we had seen and the
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Dance Review: China Gansu Dance Theater Tells a Silk Road Story
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 months ago
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Dance Review Back and Forth Along an Ancient Trade Route China Gansu Dance Theater Tells a Silk Road Story Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times Silk Road , with China Gansu Dance Theater, at the Koch Theater, Lincoln Center. Published: March 4,
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Gansu gets bigger role on cultural map
Lanzhou :: China | 3 months ago
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Revealing the plans in Beijing on Tuesday, Minister of Culture Cai Wu said the central government viewed the project as representing "a new path for the scientific development of culture, in economically underdeveloped regions". He added that
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Mogao Grottoes murals prepped for digital display
Hangzhou :: China | 4 months ago
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These murals, exuberant with color and movement, dating back thousands of years, await study by scholars. But they are gradually rotting away in the adverse weather conditions of the desert...But a couple of years ago, Li started to work with scholar
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'One day, wolves may attack humans'
Shanghai :: China | 4 months ago
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They just bite through their throats and leave them bleeding to death like it is a game to them," he said...Anyone who wants to hunt them must obtain permits from forestry administrations, or they will face criminal charges. As private citizens are
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Train rolls into China's 'no man's land'
Hami :: China | 6 months ago
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A train entered Lop Nur in remote Northwest China on Thursday, marking the operation of the first railway connecting the sparsely-populated region to the rest of China. Lop Nur still holds the mystery of the disappearance of Loulan, an ancient Silk
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