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...Indonesian designer Alvin Tjitrowirjo showed a flowing Log bench, and Teerapoj Teeropas of design studio Kitt-Ta-Khon, from Thailand, added nylon to create arresting black-and- white stripes in his Qing...
...Since the Qing dynasty collapsed in 1911, there have been only two peaceful transitions of power, both under Communist rule....
...“Making a breakthrough in semiconductor equipment is the biggest hurdle,” said Zeng Guan-wei, an analyst at research firm Trendforce, who added that fewer than 10 per cent of these machines used in China...
...Film critic Gao Wei said the film hit a sweet spot by debuting in late August, just as Chinese cinemagoers were putting Covid-19 behind them and starting to hanker for big-budget films on the big screen....
...On December 29 at 2pm, Yin Wei, a doctor in the hospital’s public health department, received a call from a colleague reporting that four patients were displaying symptoms of viral pneumonia....
...“They have been very important to China in the past, especially in reform,” said Li Wei, a professor of economics at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in Beijing....
...Zhao Wei, 41, rose to prominence in the late 1990s when she starred as Little Swallow in the TV soap opera My Fair Princess, set in the Qing dynasty....
...For ink painters such as Liu Dan and Zeng Xiaojun and the sculptures of Zeng Fanzhi, the natural world offers both a subject and a point of departure....
...The reason was the cover story on the privatisation of Luneng, the state power company in Shandong, by a politician’s son named Zeng Wei, through a complex series of corporate shells....
...Activists and lawyers seeking reparations from Japanese companies for other Chinese citizens said the fight over the Chen money was as unusual as Chung Wei Steamship Co’s original claim....
...A glimpse into the extent of the wealth accumulated by the Zeng family came from revelations in Australian and international media several years ago that Mr Zeng’s son, Zeng Wei, had bought an enormous A...
...However, a work by dissident artist Ai Weiwei was allowed — a display of Qing dynasty ceramics. In June the Chinese government lifted its de facto ban on showing his work....
...Ye Qing, deputy director of Hubei Provincial Statistical Bureau, said infrastructure construction has slowed markedly in the central province since the beginning of this year....
...The Chinese museum owners Wang Wei and her husband Liu Yiqian have been much in the news lately....
...Wei is not quite sure how much but he says that it will be in excess of the Rmb10bn (£975m) figure cited in the Chinese press....
...Equally large-scale are the Long Museum Pudong, set up by financier Liu Yiqian and his wife Wang Wei, in 2012, and the Long Museum West Bund, which they opened this year....
...So does Ai Wei Wei’s series of “Provisional Landscapes”, the show’s most critical take on modernisation. Ai squeezes his photos of transitioning neighbourhoods into wall-sized grids....
...Zeng Fanzhi’s politically charged “The Last Supper” more than doubled expectations to sell for HK$180m (US$23m), a new auction record for the work of a living Chinese artist and for any contemporary Asian...
...As Zeng the younger sweats out a gruelling course of callisthenics under the tough-love gaze of Coach Wei, followed by an 800-metre run, it becomes clear that all this heightening may not be as crazy as...
...Among the most recent is “A lighthouse was winking in the distance” (2010), a staged photograph by Chen Wei in which a blinding light erases the artist’s face....
...Two other chefs said the cheeses had a heavy shan wei (muttony odour), an ancient term used by southern Chinese to describe the slightly unsavoury tastes associated with the northern nomads....
...It declines under the Manchurian Qing dynasty (1644-1911). 1928 Chinese warlord Shi Yousan attacks the temple and a fire rages for 40 days, destroying nearly all relics and records....
...Liu Yiqian When it comes to art collectors, Shanghai businessman Liu Yiqian and his wife Wang Wei are among the most famous in China....
...Tenor Wei Song once again played a general (Xiang Yu) competing to rule China, though baritone Yang Xiaoyong (Fan Zeng), his rival in Xi Shi, was now an ally....
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