The lawyer-turned-writer Jeffrey Steingarten once wrote about the Calamari Index, that measure of culinary sophistication he invented as the resident food critic for the US edition of Vogue magazine.
My first trip to Taiwan, which took place last month, was with a team of professional photographers. They were more interested in the people inhabiting this treasure of an island, than the tourist attractions it has to offer. And it made a world of difference because it clicked with my intuitive finding that the most wonderful thing about Taiwan is its people.
In life, he was an everyday hero to those who knew him, but in death, stories of Fu Lizhi's extreme commitment to the military are a source of inspiration to people far and wide, Deng Zhangyu reports.
"There are so many treasures in China but so many people are ignorant about them," Robert Ho Hung-ngai says softly.
Documentary filmmaker Zhou Bing reveals his secrets about bringing the subjects of his work closer to audiences far removed from his field of study, writes Raymond Zhou.
The director of the disaster epic Back to 1942, the Chinese mainland's submission for the 2014 Academy Awards, is returning to comedy, the genre in which he made his name.
"Participants will trek through the key habitats of western black-crested gibbons on the Ailao Mountains, or Ailaoshan, in Yunnan province," the invitation read. "Listen to their singing in the morning, observe the rich fauna and flora in the day and stargaze at night."
Although few participants of the recent trek on the Ailao Mountains (Ailaoshan) managed to hear the western black-crested gibbons' duets, no one seemed to regret taking part.
The world's gibbon population is facing the threat of extinction. Chen Liang finds out what is being done to preserve what's left of the population in China.
Trekking 30 kilometers in the Ailao Mountains of Xinping county, Yunnan province, over four days recently proved to be quite a challenge for many of the 30 participants who were new to the area.
It may not be the Yellow Brick Road but, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, the old Silk Road has got people in Belgium and China dreaming. They are hoping the route once trodden by Flemish traders can again help promote closer economic ties between Asia and Europe.
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