China's fast trains may offer tips for U.S. – General

Plot adheres to the essentials (and even whole scenes) of the Coens' script, though culturally the movie is utterly Chinese in its characterizations and occasional references to Beijing Opera (notably "San cha kou," with its multiple double-crossing in an inn).

DANDONG, China—A freezing December wind rakes across northeast China, as a group of seven children sit in a circle in the living room of a missionary's Dandong apartment, a stone's throw from the border with Stalinist North Korea.

An Austrian steamship which left İstanbul silently on April 28, 1901, stopping briefly in both İzmir and Alexandria, and then passed through the Red Sea and headed towards the Far East, wound up spurring all of the various Western agents and envoys in the region into action.

China — Industries pumping out poisonous substances day after day into rivers that entire communities rely on for their basic water needs - the reality of water pollution in China is one of the country's biggest tragedies.