“The noise, fighting, and shouting in the audience got so loud,” NPR’s music reporter Miles Hoffman said of the Stravinsky debut, “that the choreographer had to shout out the numbers to the dancers so that they knew what they were supposed to do.” B) It’s difficult to imagine ...
A nice, big phone that is easy to find, unlike the very small modern cell that is often easy to lose, may be regarded as a useful alternative. This sentiment has led some companies to reinvent the brick phone. One advantage with a modern brick cell is it may hold a much longer ...
This place is thus regarded as the “holy land” of Chinese literature. Today's Du Fu Thatched Cottage has survived multiple dynasties and been restored many times. The most important architecture of the place is his former residence, the thatched house. This former residence was built with ...
Gender was complex in the Middle Ages, as it still is today. In his bookMaking Sex, Thomas Lacqueur discusses how philosophers like Galen (CE 130–210) and Aristotle (384–322 BCE) supported a one-sex model in which men and women were essentially inversions of each other. Galenwrites: A...
In ancient times, before the various types of vehicles were invented, people used to walk on foot to get to places (unless they own a beast of burden). In China, when there was a wedding or a funeral, friends and relatives from other villages might walk days in order to attend. Theref...
Unlike Russia, it's regarded as good manners to finish everything on your plate. People often cut bread directly on a table cloth rather than on a plate. Tear your bread into small pieces before eating. Taking a bite from the whole piece is very impolite. (1) Where should you place ...
The 1946 Tucker Torpedo Prototype II is often regarded as "one of the great what-if stories of automotive history." It was built by Preston Tucker, an automobile entrepreneur, and was first known as the "Tucker Torpedo." Like many entrepreneurs, Tucker was overly optimistic ...
So, unlike classical Western poetry, classical Chinese poetry may be regarded as a living tradition, enhanced by the audio-video gadgets of the information age. A student of Chinese language and culture can and should be an active partici- pant in this great tradition. To aid in the learning...
Fall is regarded by most people as the best season to travel to China, when the weather is mild, neither cold nor hot, and there is little rain. Therefore, you don’t have to pack many clothes, and you need not worry the wet when biking or hiking around. Avoid traveling to China ...
and it has been called the Chinese Valentine’s Day in recent years. “Meng Jiangnv” is a folk tale about Meng Jiangnv weeping over the Great Wall. Legend has it that in the period of Qin Shi Huang when the labor duties were heavy, a young man named Fan Xiliang was forced to leav...