If you didn't get enough of the macabre recently on Halloween or the Day of the Dead, a vibrant folk art show at the Prince Gong Mansion is keeping the spirit alive for a couple more weeks.
He tasted his first soft French cheese at an orientation party thrown to welcome foreign students to Auvergne. It was very smelly, Liu Yang remembers, but it was also love at first bite. That was more than 10 years ago, and the affair has matured and aged into a career partnership.
As the seventh speaker at the Southwest Associated University Forum, Chinese pianist Li Yundi performed a solo concert and offered advice to young piano students on how to keep their ideals and dreams for music alive at Yunnan Normal University in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province.
Fan Shunhua's day is a successful one when he hears the bleating of newborn lambs. Fan has experienced the happy sound more than 140 times this year and expects 60 more such occasions by year-end. With 400 Qinglong sheep in the sheepfolds, Fan rarely has a moment's rest. He goes out in the morning to collect grass, feeds the sheep several times a day and checks their health before going to bed.
The color and shape of the land itself have defined the people who have lived in China's West for centuries. Li Yang reports from Zhangye, Gansu province.
Zhangye has never been so thirsty for water as it is today. Its fall as a trade and military center came after the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), when Chinese turned to marine navigation for international trade. Its decline as an agricultural-production base and human habitat is happening now with the shortage of water.
A new surgical technique has given a badly burned young Chinese woman a new lease on life - with a transplant from her own body. Sun Li and Hu Meidong report in Fuzhou.
For the past 12 years, Xu Jianmei has not smiled and she thought she would never smile again. The 17-year-old girl from rural Putian, Fujian province, says she liked to hide her fire-scarred face from public and always bowed her head to avoid eye contact.
Shanghai's pilot free trade zone is being eyed by global arts companies as an entry point into the lucrative Chinese market. Shi Jing and Zhang Kun report in Shanghai.
Mainland director Ning Hao's No Man's Land will be screened three-and-a-half years after its announced release date.
In his new film Firestorm, to be released on Dec 12, 52-year-old movie star Andy Lau jumps from the 11th floor of a building in Central, the business center of Hong Kong.
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