To most Chinese, the age of 39 is too old for an athlete. But Ye Xiaoli is still very active. During the 37th World Military Parachuting Championship held in Qionglai, Sichuan province, last week, the mother of a 9-year-old girl grabbed two of the 18 golds for the championship.
Laws are cold, but lawyers can serve them with warmth, says Yi Shenghua, a lawyer who has built his fame and influence in criminal law over the past decade.
When Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, visited China to promote her new book Lean In, she already had a large number of fans in the country. People were drawn to Sandberg either by her story of success, or the notion of the renewed feminist movement inspired by her book.
Lean In: Women, Work and The Will to Lead is Sheryl Sandberg's first book. The book topped the New York Times booklist for nonfiction for eight weeks after its release in March.
When Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, wrote Lean In, she did not want the book to be just a book, or just another celebration of the world's top-achieving C-suite women.
A month after the premiere of The Great Gatsby in the Chinese mainland, menswear company Brooks Brothers has launched its special collection for the movie in China.
The 2013 Beijing International Design Week provided yet more evidence of the capital's emergence as a center for independent fashion design. To help kick off the design week, the Beijing-based German designer Kathrin von Rechenberg unveiled her new Fall/Winter Line with a show at the inauguration of "The Cocoon" in the exclusive Hotel Eclat at Parkview Green.
What had seemed like a frivolity to me suddenly took on social gravitas when I was asked to provide comments for a reality television show to be aired later this year.
"Can you tell me what progress is?"
Chinese Jiangnan-style food is probably one of the most delicate and historical cuisines in the country that originated from south of the Yangtze River.
I have to admit: Aside from riesling, which is one of my favorite varietals to drink, I think of beer when I want to enjoy a beverage from Germany. My prejudice is not uncommon. Patrick Festl, business development manager for Schmidt Vinothek, believes that it was the influx of cheap wines such as Black Tower that gave German vintages a bad name in the 1970s and '80s.
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