Editor's Note: Swiss papermaker Pierre got to know about China from reading China Reconstructs, predecessor to China Today. He moved to China and worked her
THE Song Dynasty(960-1279)was a turbulent period in Chinese history. Its first Emperor Zhao Kuangyin seized power in a military coup d'état, but nomadi
HINA'S contemporary art is gaining recognition amonginternational artistic circles, despite having got off to a relatively late start. Until the 1980s, Chin