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...More recently, he worked with renowned hand-engraver Eddy Jaquet and Chinese sculptor Xia Hang, but he also partnered with fellow independent Swiss watchmaker H Moser & Cie earlier in the year....
...Imperial China’s civil service exam, which lasted for 1,300 years, was the best way for men of modest backgrounds to climb the social ladder....
...While pupils know more about Mr Men books than Communist history, that could change as the school develops, said Jamie Macnamara, international primary principal at the school, adding: “History might be...
...The current standing committee has seven members, cut from nine under Hu Jintao when it functioned as a constellation of men who were powerful in their own right....
...Revenue from wealth management – the portion of fee and commission income most correlated with equity performance – rose most sharply for Everbright, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and Hua Xia Bank in...
...The first stop for the deputy mayor was the offices of Eve Group, which sells high-end men’s fashion and employs 300 people....
...The rest are men, and in a rush to break into the global auto industry, while Wang has taken her time to build a quality “made in China” brand from the ground up....
...The men standing at the entrance to Liu Xia’s apartment building were polite but firm: anybody wanting to meet the wife of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize-winner Liu Xiaobo has to go through a special procedure...
...Five dozen men and women in their late 70s celebrated their 60-year high school class reunion there on Tuesday, bringing to life the deserted compound, nestled on a hilltop next to a half-empty new apartment...
...While Hermès is trying to create homegrown Chinese luxury with its Shang Xia brand, other European companies are considering different ways to unify Chinese aesthetics with European manufacturing quality...
...It calls to mind the Chinese phrase commonly used to describe crowded public pools: xiang xia jiaozi (like boiling dumplings)....
...In the 1953 romantic comedy Roman Holiday, Gregory Peck established himself as one of the better dressed men in film history. Ten days ago in the Chinese capital, he came alive again....
...The court temporarily froze the assets of the three men. A freezing order was obtained for Mr Xiao’s wife and another woman know as FranFran Chen....
...Unlike in the west, men such as those in Louis Vuitton’s Hong Kong store account for a larger proportion of luxury goods sales than women....
...His wife, Liu Xia, who has been under house arrest since shortly after the prize was announced in October, has issued a list of 140 activists who could collect the prize in his name....
...Mr Liu’s wife, Liu Xia, was briefly reachable after the award was announced but not since. It has been impossible to contact other friends of his, such as Yu Jie, a writer....
...And among the artists and their fashionable admirers – loose little top-knots would seem to be the Beijingese equivalent of a Hoxton fin – you’ll see men in pyjamas on bicycles....
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