On a breezy September Shanghai dusk, Elvis Presley, Charlie Chaplin, Audrey Hepburn and a bunch of bow-tied gentlemen and qipao-wrapped ladies grabbed their bicycles, or tricycles, and set out from the city's century-old Shiliupu Dock to join their first Shanghai Vintage Ride.
The Voice of China concluded its second season by creating another grassroots idol, 23-year-old Li Qi. He may not have the look of a star but has obviously touched the hearts of many with his unpretentious and affectionate singing style.
After an inauspicious and sweltering start to our journey, any initial discomfort makes way for three idyllic days in the calming county of Taining, Huang Zhiling reports.
Decades of logging left the people of Boduoluo village battling natural disasters brought about by deforestation. Now, a shift toward eco-tourism is reviving the remote area's fortunes. Zhang Yue reports.
I spent two nights in Boduoluo village trying to talk to the villagers about their life and thoughts, with a few other reporters and Oxfam staff. The first day was spent in the old village director Liu Zhengkun's house, and the second day in villager Liu Zhengwei's place with three other reporters.
China's Myanmar-language professor Su Xiuyu has provided stipends for 27 poor and outstanding Myanmar students to pursue university education under the name of the Professor Su-Xiuyu Fund.
As another smoggy day dawns, Beijing is seeking solutions in a new direction: design.
Zhang Chen received five orders for the black walnut desk she created as her graduation work, an exciting moment for the young designer. However, when the five desks came out of the factory none of them looked the same as the prototype she created.
The last thing most people would expect from a hair accessory is for it to function as a hygrometer. That's an instrument that measures humidity in the atmosphere. But this is exactly the kind of head piece - as well as ring, bracelet, pendant, earring and epaulet - that Elaine Ng Yan Ling sets out to create.
The real threat to traditional Chinese medicine is not fear relating to its use of toxic compounds, but growing skepticism about the efficacy of its methods from within its own ranks, according to a leading German practitioner of the ancient medical system.
More than one third of Chinese babies have sleeping problems, and inappropriate parenting behaviors contribute to such problems, a recent survey indicates.
Doctors have found a way to put healthy people's poop into pills that can cure serious gut infections - a less yucky way to do "fecal transplants". Canadian researchers tried this on 27 patients and cured them all after strong antibiotics failed to help.
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