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Whats hot now? |
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| Summer ! |
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| Enjoy a vibrant summer life in Beijing’s shaded avenues. |
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Sound
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Sounds of life : if you pay attention to the
sounds of spring, you will discoverlife under a new angle. In the
summer heat, Beijing is rustling with a thousand whispers, burstling
with a hundred clamors: music in gardens, popular songs, street
peddlers. Let’s stop and lend an ear.. |
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Green. |
In summer Beijing is adorned in green, the color of life, of foliage, of singing locusts and ubiquitous watermelons, a riot of green set on the red background of imperial walls. A stroll in green, the color green in Chinese culture. |
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| It sure is hot in the Beijing summer! Throughout ages, Beijing folks have developed their own tactics to escape the scorching hours… Shaded courtyards, erudite fans and boat rides: let us keep cool… |
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Fun. |
| Pastimes of old and of today : The games of the rich and the lowly in Imperial China; Chinese leisures in the third millenium. From chess playing to karaoke, times are changing, but we’re still having fun. |
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Exams |
Now here is a serious subject, one that has been a concern for a whole country for a long, long time. Let us first brush up our history of exams in China, then throw ourselves into the national marathon, a competition fit to steal the show to the Olympics: the High School exams! It’s a lifetime’s test, the one that has kids and parents running, and that is nurturing a whole economy. Private tuitions, tailored coaching, vitamin cocktails and oxygen rooms: all means are good to pass the test of a lifetime, the one which opens the doors to University…
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This summer’s key
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Hŭ Nián |
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Spring
Festival (Chinese new year) : February 14th, 2010. Enter the Year
of the Tiger.
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