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Coca-Cola exhibits art bottles

Updated: 2008-08-12 17:08:29

34 Coca-Cola art bottles and their creators gathered at the Olympic Green complex. (Photo credit: Li Wei)

BEIJING, August 12) -- Thirty-four Coca-Cola art bottles give visitors a taste of China's multi-faceted culture at exhibit in Beijing.

Close to 180,000 entries have been submitted since December 12, 2007, when Coca-Cola invited artists to submit their designs. The designs featured various elements of Chinese culture including: "flying goddesses" from the Buddhist mural paintings of the Dunhuang Grottoes, the famous Tulou residential architecture of Fujian Province; and imagery of the National Stadium in Beijing, affectionately dubbed the "Bird's Nest." Thirty-four works from all over China were selected as the winning designs. They were then used to decorate a set of two-meter-tall soda bottles.

Chen Lu from Beijing presents her art bottle to Coca-Cola chairman and CEO Neville Isdell. (Photo credit: Li Wei)

The bottles on display (Photo credit: Li Wei)

Photos: Famous tourist site Gongwangfu to reopen on Aug. 20

Updated: 2008-08-12 15:27:03 From: Xinhuanet
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A portray of Heshen in A traditional Chinese room in Gongwangfu in Beijing.

The 232-year-old Gongwangfu, China's largest and best-preserved Qing Dynasty mansion, will open to the public for the first time ever on Aug. 20, 2008 after 31 months of restoration. The mansion was constructed around 1776 and was originally the private residence of Heshen, a member of imperial court of Emperor Qianlong (1736-1796) in the Qing Dynasty (1644--1911). The mansion consists of residential quaters covering some 32,000 square meters and a 28,000-square-meter garden.

(Photo credit: Xinhua)

A man takes a photo of a piece of roof decoration.