Shanghai, a Far East Feast
NY Times - SHANGHAI, Oct. 9 - MADE for trade, the modern city of Shanghai came into being in the second half of the 19th century as a commercial link with the West. British, French, German and American traders settled there, eventually ollowed by White Russian refugees.
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Classes in Chinese Grow as the Language Rides a Wave of Popularity
NY Times - CHICAGO, Oct. 14 - The future of foreign language study in the United States might be glimpsed here at Louisa May Alcott Elementary School, in a lassroom where lanterns with cherry blossoms and pandas dangle overhead, and a paper dragon, an American flag and a Chinese flag hang from the wall.
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Dark Tale Changes Fields, Along With Its Director
NY Times - NEW YORK - "Raise the Red Lantern" (1991) was a striking if dour film by Zhang Yimou. "Raise the Red Lantern" (2001, revised 2003) is a nearly two-hour ballet directed by Mr. Zhang but not choreographed by him. It was given its first New York performance on Tuesday night by the National Ballet of China at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Oldest noodles unearthed in China
BBC - October 12, 2005. The remains of the world's oldest noodles have been unearthed in China. The 50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood. Radiocarbon dating of the material taken from the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River indicates the food was about 4,000 years old.
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