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Photo: Banana piano, made by Jyu Dalong, a graduate student, shows his innovation at Southwest Jiaotong University, in Chengdu, Sichuan province. Inspired by Chris Anderson's book Makers, the university has launched a nearly 1,000-square-meter open laboratory called SWJTU Makerspace, offering students various tools and materials to develop their innovations and ideas into actual objects.

Bilingual: When acts of altruism are exaggerated, they become hollow. The shift from a tradition of melodrama to a growing need for truth and complexity reflects a move up the curve of civilization. A popular television program is making a comeback, but it is making waves for the wrong reason. The second season of A Bite of China, a documentary series on Chinese food, is drawing record numbers in ratings, but the biggest controversy it has caused has nothing to do with what we put in our mouths. It is about how far a mother is willing to go for her daughter.