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Great Wall of China: comparing two of three vantage points near Beijing
The Great Wall of China stretches, loops and snakes its way around 3,700 miles of rugged, mountainous terrain covering eight provinces in northern China....(Continue Reading) Meet the Great Wall of China
By Richard Luscombe in Houston AT 7ft 5in, Yao Ming should surely be big enough to look after himself. But the second-tallest basketball player ......(Continue Reading)INDIGENOUS INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS FROM CHINA'S LEAP INTO THE INFORMATION AGE1
INDIGENOUS INNOVATION Economic development depends on the innovative capability of a society to generate goods and services that, at prevailing factor ......(Continue Reading)The world in St Louis: Phillip Prodger surveys the extraordinary range of art shown in the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1904 World's Fair, perhaps the last
When Halsey Ives sat down to write the ground rules for the Palace of Fine Arts at St Louis's first and only world's fail; idealism flowed from his pen with flourish. He was determined it would not...(Continue Reading)Made in Hong Kong: Geoffrey O'Brien on the films of Shaw Brothers studio
AT THE DAWN OF THE 1960S, on the shore of Hong Kong's Clearwater Bay, a world capital of sorts came into being: Movietown, the production center of the seemingly unbeatable Shaw Brothers Ltd., a co...(Continue Reading)
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