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.
Living in a lighthouse by the sea sounds romantic to many, but for lighthouse keeper Wang Bingjiao, it's a home that gives him not only poetic inspiration, but many responsibilities.
When a 17-year-old Ya Hsien waved goodbye to his mother in his hometown of Nanyang, Henan province, to join the Kuomintang army heading to Taiwan in 1949, he didn't expect the departure would be the last time they saw each other.
Polish poet Adam Zagajewski is this year's foreign recipient of the fourth Zhongkun International Poetry Prize awarded by Peking University Institute of Poetry Studies.
There are various reasons why people read modern Chinese literature.
The use of gold beads as a decorating technique called granulation dates back to 2500 BC as evident in royal tombs from Ur in Mesopotamia (known today as Iraq).
If you enter Louis Vuitton's new boutique in the Peninsula Hotel Beijing, the first thing that pops into sight is a shelf where various kinds of bags are placed. In the center is a light violet Capucine bag. The luxury brand has only produced eight of these bags for China.
Wang Xiuqing had been living in an underground utility compartment for some 10 years before his living conditions became a news story that started a chain reaction.
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