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Chabaixi, which literally means "hundred surprises with tea", gained popularity overnight after being featured in a popular Chinese drama. Indeed, “A Dream of Splendor” brought to life an intricate ancient forgotten Chinese ceremony requiring calligraphy and patterns appearing in the froth of whipped tea, “dian cha” style. A thousand-year-old art!...

The sky was overcast and the sound of a fog horn sounded for a long time as a sign of farewell. On June 14, Jumbo, the world's largest floating restaurant left Hong Kong forever. Aberdeen Bay will no longer be what it was, now orphaned by the huge neon lights...

China's first photonic chip Today, the world is experiencing unprecedented natural disasters: floods, droughts, hurricanes. At the same time, humanity is facing global challenges: disruptions in world trade, employment difficulties and an aging population. In its contribution to universal modern history, China relies on the continuous advancement of scientific and...

The Hong Kong Palace Museum is a planned museum exhibiting artefacts of Beijing's Palace Museum in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD). Construction began in April 2019 and it will open in July with its first exhibition ! The Hong Kong Palace Museum aspires to become one of the world’s leading cultural institutions committed to...

It took place on June 5 in the Gobi desert in China and it was a perfect success. No one succumbed to dehydration! Long March is the 2 F rocket that propelled the Shenzen 15 mission ship to the Chinese orbital station Tiangong, ie the « Heavenly Palace ». Snub to the...

Of all the great modern Chinese writers, Lao She is one of the first to have fully utilized all the resources finally offered by the use of spoken language in literature.  Better than many of his contemporaries, who sometimes confused “clear language” (baihua) with the Westernization of syntax and vocabulary. ...

The  Chinese  garden  is  certainly  one  of  the  most  accomplished  forms  of  artistic  expression  that  traditional  China  has  bequeathed.  His  concept,  intimately  linked  to  other  forms  of  art  such  as  painting,  poetry,  calligraphy,  music  and,  of  course,  architecture,  reflects,  through  the  images  he  stages,  a  whole  utopian  and  microcosm  underlying ...

Nicolas Godelet is a civil engineer architect graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain, 46 years old, originally from Condroz Namur and founder, in 2008, of the office "Gejian Architects & Engineers". This versatile and humble genius of 46 years leads the only Belgian-owned architectural workshop registered in China, which...

During a European scale exhibition in Brussels for the 100th anniversary of the birth of the immense Belgian artist, Dotremont, it was important to show his links with Asia, especially China, and the strange world of his very personal calligraphy called by him, « logogram ».  Did you know that Dotremont had...

The oldest portrait of Confucius was recently discovered in China, after archaeologists reconstructed a broken mirror dating from the Western Hans dynasty, 2000 years ago… This operation allowed them to identify this oldest portrait of the great Chinese sage having been discovered to date. He was hidden in a tomb...