SHENYANG hydro flask 12 oz wide mouth pink sale , May 5 (Xinhua) -- An 800-year-old manuscript of "The Romance of the West Chamber," one of China's most popular love dramas, is to be put on display in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning province.
The manuscript hydro flask 64 oz wide mouth white sale , discovered in Tatirang, a village in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is one of the earliest copies of the story. It was found in 1986 by a herdsman, along with 27 other documents.
"The Romance of the West Chamber" is about a young scholar and the daughter of a minister hydro flask 64 oz wide mouth black sale , who fell in love without parental approval. Written by Wang Shifu, a playwright of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), it is recognized as a plea for freedom of marriage in a time when marriages were always arranged.
Bai Wenyu, curator of the Shenyang Palace Museum hydro flask 64 oz wide mouth blue sale , told Xinhua that Tatirang was once a Yuan city on a busy traffic line. "From the documents we can deduce that soldiers came from distant Shaanxi province. They read this book to kill time and quench their homesickness." Enditem
BEIJING, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Though e-books are increasingly preferred by Chinese readers, young people long for the return of bookstores, according to a survey of 2,001 people.
A total of 81.7 percent of respondents said they wish they had a bookstore in their neighborhood, according to results published Friday by the China Youth Daily.
The survey showed 65.9 percent of respondents said they are more accustomed to reading paper books, while 20.1 percent developed their reading habits on electronic screens, including mobile phones, computers and tablets.
Interestingly, the younger the respondents, the more enthusiasm they showed toward bookstores and paper books.
Among interviewees from the "post-90s" generation, 68.1 percent said they prefer reading paper books. On the contrary, the majority of readers born in the 1960s said they are not optimistic about bookstores.
Of the interviewees, 70.8 percent said bookstores are still attractive to custome