Zhang Shifan, a native of Qingdao city, runs a swimsuit store in the coastal city of Shandong province. The 58-year-old woman is recognized as the inventor of the facekini.
At the mention of Yuanmingyuan Garden, or the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, crumbling walls and ruins come to mind. Now visitors can see how it looked before it was destroyed.
Since January, more than 7,800 people have been detained for taking drugs in Beijing, according to the police. Among them, some big names are involved in domestic entertainment circle.
A temple in Southwest China's Yunnan province which closed its door to tourists on Aug 15 because it rejected the local government's plan to commercialize it reopened on Aug 17.
China's prestigious Lu Xun Literature Prize has come under fire after its most recent award winner for poetry - Zhou Xiaotian's "Jiang Jin Cha" - was denounced as a "shame on poetry."
Athletes of the Netherlands show their calligraphy works in the Chinese traditional culture room at the Youth Olympic Village in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province.
A Doraemon exhibition is held in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province. A hundred and two life-size Doraemon figures, each of which bearing a distinct secret gadget, are displayed.
Earlier this month, 72 newsstands in Beijing's Chaoyang district were dismantled amid reports of sporadic scuffles between proprietors and those sent by the local authority to enforce the new rule.
It's a tradition that Chinese people eat sweet moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival but the delicacy has undergone a makeover as manufacturers look to reach out to health-conscious consumers.
After its successful debut in 2013, Munich Oktoberfest is returning to Beijing from Aug 15 to 30 for a celebration of beer and Bavarian culture at the Olympic Forest Park.
Statistics from the Chinese Culture Relics Society show that more than 10 million Chinese cultural relics have been lost overseas due to wartime robbery or iniquitous trade since 1840.
The country's clarion call to women in the beginning was for them to "hold up half the sky" in China. More than 60 years later, both the country and its female citizens have undergone a sea change.
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