Balance and harmony for body and mind

Anant Kumar easily draws attention, as he is the only expat in a group of elderly Chinese practicing tai chi every Saturday morning in Yingze Park in Taiyuan, Shanxi province.

The 25-year-old Indian student has grown fond of the slow-motion form of wushu, or traditional Chinese martial arts, in the eight months since he arrived in Taiyuan to study the Chinese language,

"I was long fascinated by the fancy moves in kung fu movies and I found that wushu is more interesting than I imagined after practicing it for a while," said Kumar.