Architecture, by definition, is the art or science of planning and building structures. Those are the words used to describe architecture in a dictionary but architecture is so much more than a study of how a building is built. Architecture is a product of human activities, and it is also a mirror o...

CHINA 2000 What is China? Is it maybe the image of the ancient times with the glorious old dynasties, the powerful emperors, the wondrous temples, the fascinating winding gardens...? Or is it maybe a strict communist world with uniformed people wearing Mao suits and living in dreary gray conc...

"In the formative era of Chinese civilization as early as the first millennium b.c. the Chinese thought of the world as all the regions of the heavens, and within the "four seas." They called it Tianxia, which literally means "under heaven." Because this was a universal...

Recently, Anti-Japanese protest has peaked in China due to Japan's approval of high school history textbooks that contain significant revision and whitewash of its brutal actions towards China and Korea during WWII. At the same time Japan is trying to win a permanent seat on an expanded United ...

"Foreign Direct Investment in China is expected to reach US$100 billion in every year of the 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-10)" (Annual 1). If history is any indication of the future, then China can expect a biased distribution of these funds during the 11th Five-Year Plan. Attracting foreign d...