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- At the end of 2002 during Shanghai's bid for the Expo 2010, library scholars in Shanghai disclosed an incredible finding–the relations between China and the World Expo began not in 1867 (It was in that year that Wang Tao, a writer from Wu County of Jiangsu Province, China, arrived in Paris and visited the World Expo.), but 1851, therefore, pushing back the history of exchange between China and the World Expo by 16 years. Who was the First Chinese in a World Expo?

- Pushing back the history of exchange between China and the World Expo, the first Chinese in the World Expo is Xun Rongcun, a merchant from Guangdong. But Xu Rongcun didn't attend the World Expo 1851 London by himself, he just transported his Huzhou Silk to the World Expo for exhibition. Wang Tao, a thinker, translator and writer of the late Qing Dynasty, is the first Chinese who visited the Crystal Palace of the World Expo London in 1867. Let's get to know Wang Tao.

- The Dragon Boat Festival falls on every May 5 of the Chinese lunar calendar. The festival, bearing the 2000-plus years'Chinese culture and undergoing the ablution of the long history, is still shining for its rich traditional cultural connotations, delivering the diligence and wisdom of the working people. The traditional Dragon Boat Festival is coming again; the ancient customs are turning into beautiful wishes of the common mass. Once again the fragrance of the indocamalus leaves is drifting in the air, and the drum on the dragon boat is beating. Let us deliver our common wish that the people in the quake-hit area would be far from disasters and diseases and begin their new life with high morale

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- CHINA ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT GROUP Founded in April 2004 by merging China Performing Arts Agency (CPAA) and China International Exhibition Agency (CIEA), China Arts & Entertainment Group (CAEG) is a large State-owned cultural company, and one of the four national model bases for cultural exports affirmed by the Ministry of Culture...

- At two o'clock the afternoon on Saturday, 23rd May, the final of “The Impression of China” speech competition had finally kicked off at Guanghua Building in FuDan campus. 18 competitors from 10 different countries had come out from the first round and fought for the final succeed. During this 3-hour game rather than competition, we had smiled, we have laughed, we had thought…

- China boasts a great variety of time-honored intangible cultural heritages: Taiji shadow boxing, the legend of the White Snake, shadow play, purple sand pot, to name just a few. However, with the acceleration of social modernization and the impact of foreign cultures, the intangible cultural heritages in China are facing ever increasing impairment and destruction, and some even on the verge of distinction. How to protect these intangible cultural heritages has become an issue that badly needs us to tackle with.