TED Talks
TED: What the world can learn from China's innovation playbook | Keyu Jin
In the last few decades, China has gone from technological scarcity to abundance. What sparked this shift? Economist Keyu Jin explores how China has fostered a model of innovation unlike any other and shows why understanding its...
TED Talks
TED: Why great architecture should tell a story | Ole Scheeren
For architect Ole Scheeren, the people who live and work inside a building are as much a part of that building as concrete, steel and glass. He asks: Can architecture be about collaboration and storytelling instead of the isolation and...
TED Talks
Ma Yansong: Urban architecture inspired by mountains, clouds and volcanoes
Taking inspiration from nature, architect Ma Yansong designs breathtaking buildings that break free from the boxy symmetry of so many modern cities. His exuberant and graceful work -- from a pair of curvy skyscrapers that "dance" with...
TED Talks
TED: Why is China appointing judges to combat climate change? | James K. Thornton
Why is China appointing thousands of judges to environmental courts and training prosecutors to bring cases to them, even if it means suing the government? Eco-lawyer James Thornton takes us inside the country's growing effort to use the...
TED Talks
Arunabha Ghosh: 5 steps for clean air in India
India's big cities have some of the worst air quality in the world. How can we fix this public health crisis? In an actionable talk, social entrepreneur Arunabha Ghosh lays out a five-step plan to put India on the path to cleaner, safer...
SciShow
How an Ancient Remedy Became a Modern Cure for Malaria
In the 1960s drug-resistant strains of malaria emerged, making the disease even deadlier than before. Then, pharmaceutical scientist Tu Youyou discovered a promising new remedy buried within the pages of ancient Chinese texts.
Crash Course
China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera: Crash Course Theater #25
This week we're headed to China to learn about the ancient origins of theater there. We'll look at the early days of wizard theater (not a typo), the development of classical Chinese theater, and the evolution of Beijing Opera.
TED-Ed
What's in the air you breathe? | Amy Hrdina and Jesse Kroll
Take a deep breath. In a single intake of air, your lungs swell with roughly 25 sextillion molecules, ranging from days-old compounds, to those formed billions of years in the past. In fact, many of the molecules you're breathing were...
Curated Video
China Education
New ReviewEducation in China is compulsory for all children, but there is unequal quality and access for families in the countryside. Learn more about the Chinese education structure and how it is evolving to give students more choices. China's...
Curated Video
China History
New ReviewAccording to legends, the first ancient ruler, Fuxi, reigned in the thirty-fourth century BCE. Explore China's fascinating history, which is believed to have begun five thousand years ago, evolving through successive dynasties to modern...
Curated Video
China Geography
New ReviewChina is the third-largest country in the world after Russia and Canada, covering 3.7 million square miles (9.6 million square kilometers). Its massive geography stretches from the Himalayan Mountains of Tibet in the west to the Yangtze...
The Daily Conversation
The World's Largest Airport | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 3
China is building the world's largest airport, the Beijing Daxing International Aiport, to serve the Jing-Jin-Ji megalopolis.
The Daily Conversation
The Longest Underwater Tunnel | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 5
China is building the world’s longest underwater tunnel beneath the Bohai Sea--at 76 miles long it will pass through two deadly earthquake fault zones, will be longer than the current first and second-ranked underwater tunnels combined...
The Daily Conversation
The High Speed Rail Revolution | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 4
China's high speed rail network is already larger than all other countries' combined--and it's only half complete.
The Daily Conversation
Jing-Jin-Ji, A MEGALOPOLIS | China's MEGAPROJECTS
Jing-Jin-Ji: China is in the midst of a construction spree unparalleled in human history. These are the Megaprojects that will lift China into the future. China wants to make its capital, Beijing, the center of the world’s largest...
The Daily Conversation
China's Amazing Water Canal | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 2
South-to-North Water Transfer Project: The huge populations filling China's northern megacities have a shortage of the single most necessary resource for life: water. To solve that problem, the Chinese will soon be moving 44.8 billion...
The Daily Conversation
World's Largest Wind Farm | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 6
The largest wind farm in the world is being constructed in China's Gansu Province, and is one of six mega-farms going up across the country.
Curated Video
Canadian surveillance plane buzzed by Chinese off North Korea, DND reveals
The detentions and the ongoing controversy over Huawei are not the only source of tension between Ottawa and Beijing. As the CBC's Murray Brewster reports in this exclusive story, a Canadian military surveillance aircraft monitoring...
Curated Video
Great Wall
When you are standing on The Great Wall of China, wonderment is a complete understatement. Spanning over 13,000 miles, this ancient fortification winds across the land with complete disregard for natural obstacles and the dramatic...
Curated Video
Duck de Chine
When you think Beijing, you think ancient history, bustling metropolis and duck. There aren't many meals that can claim royal lineage dating back almost a thousand years to the ancient emperors of China. Known as Peking Duck, Beijing...
Curated Video
TRB- 廟宇餐廳
TRB位於一間擁有600年歷史的廟宇內,是北京最壯觀的景點之一。TRB的主要用餐區既現代又時尚 (為澳大利亞建築公司Hassell設計)- 與當地的歷史風情有著鮮明的對比。曾經是昔任工廠的發源地,這間寺廟的牆上仍遺留著文革時的口號和標語,但現在已成為北京當代歐式料理餐廳的亮點之一。 鵝肝醬佐龍蝦搭配松露美乃滋,佐海萵苣和鴨肝是歷年來最受歡迎的前菜;帝王蟹義大利餃子和烤乳豬也從其它菜色中脫穎而出-...
Curated Video
Temple Restaurant Beijing (TRB)
Housed inside a 600-year-old temple complex, Temple Restaurant is one of Beijing’s most spectacular locations. Temple’s main dining hall (designed by Australian architecture firm Hassell) is modern and sleek - greatly contrasting with...
Curated Video
The Georg
When Shakespeare wrote, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” surely he couldn’t have been talking about the food, or the clean lines worn by its heralded furniture designs. He was probably talking about politics or something....
Curated Video
Taco Bar
What first opened as a private, “by appointment only” eatery, known to have the best Mexican food in Beijing, now operates in south Sanlitun where everyone is welcome- Tacos para todos! Taco Bar is a relaxed place with playful touches–...