Characters, the symbol of human civilization, first appeared in the East. Like the ancient languages of Sumer, Egypt and India, all of which belong to the category of pictographs, the Chinese characters were first created in the shape of "drawings"

This is an art book that presents the Forbidden City from angles entirely different from the common experience, but deeply reflective of the aesthetic taste and artistic sensibility of the photographer

As one earliest cities in China in modern times to introduce the Western cultures, Tianjin City has created a city culture of its own with both the Chinese and Western characters, which produced many historic and stylistic constructions bearing a unique local feature

Located at the center of Beijing, Tian"anmen Square is at the crossing point of city"s horizontal and vertical axis lines, and was named after Tian"anmen Gate, the south gate of the royal palace from the Ming and Qing dynasties

Published by the Smithsonian’s Asian Cultural History Program, this full-color, exquisitely illustrated, bilingual monograph (available in English-Georgian or English-Azerbaijani versions) presents research by Paul Michael Taylor, Christopher R. Polglase, Najaf Museybili, Jared M. Koller and Troy A. Johnson, summarizing and interpreting the archaeological finds uncovered by teams of Azerbaijani, Georgian, Turkish, British, and American archaeologists during the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and adjacent South Caucasus (SCP) pipelines, from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean

A global city celebrated for its historical and cultural legacy, Beijing has existed as a city for more than, 3 000 years and has served as the country"s capital for 854 years. Th Games will certainly help Beijing become a modern international metropolis and an international sports centre

На примере своей спортивной биографии Александр Шапаренко, двукратный олимпийский чемпион, семикратный чемпион мира, трехкратный чемпион Европы, рассказывает начинающим спортсменам об основных средствах и методах спортивной тренировки, знакомит их с техникой, тактикой, системой подготовки спортсменов в гребле на байдарках

The art of Chinese New Year Pictures has a long history and the unique national characteristics. This book is very helpful to understand the connotation of the arts of the Chinese New Year Pictures better

This work sets out to investigate the Chinese conception of space. It attempts, to discover the underling mechanism of reasoning, the way in which mental constructions of space lead to formal structures, which carries meanings

Since Shanghai became officially a commercial port in November 17, 1843, the Bund has been a frontier from Shanghai to the World due to its special geographic position