As Fan Tianhuan offers his guests a round of light amber tea, he proudly explains that the infusion is made from the best quality Arhat fruit, or luohan guo, and as the guests take in the sweet scent of the tea, he tells them how he started growing it 37 years ago.
Yung Chang is circulating at a cocktail party before a Beijing screening of his latest documentary, The Fruit Hunters. In his right hand, he carries half a durian, which he's hollowed out into a fruit bowl so guests can sample a slice.
Disney's Snow White runs after Tim Burton's Red Queen. Super Mario shares his toy bricks with Bumble Bee. And Batman bounces among tables, filling his basket with candies and handing them out to replay the game.
When German premium brand Audi's founder August Horch chose the Latin word as the company's name, which has the same meaning of "to listen" with German word Horch, he never expected that the auto brand would one day become synonymous with art, especially the music industry.
Performing arts centers are springing up all over China, but audience demand for quality means a greater investment into the cash-strapped industry is desperately needed, reports Zhang Kun in Shanghai.
As a man and father of two boys, composer Tan Dun says he owes so much to a woman whom he can never repay in his lifetime.
When it comes to microfilms, the only thing experts can agree on is that there is little that can be agreed on. Not even the name and the origin.
Yu Qing dreams of becoming a film director like Martin Scorsese, and making films that address social problems.
For many Shanghai natives, nostalgia is a natural reaction to the rapid and drastic changes that are happening to the city. Wang Xiaojia went a step further - she built a museum to commemorate the golden days of old Shanghai.
He has become an international star through his emotional interpretations of classical music. Now Chinese concert pianist Lang Lang is taking to the world stage to help the United Nations promote global education.
When Yu Ying, an emergency physician and celebrity on Twitter-like online platform SinaWeibo, announced that she would quit the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, one of the most famous hospitals in China, for a private practice, she probably had not expected the post would be forwarded more than 11,600 times, and get 10,000 comments and 5,000 "like (zan)" clicks.
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