A person's disposition toward happiness or misery is genetic, scientists have proved during the past two decades.
Wearing light blue clothes with small black flowers, her white and gray hair wrapped up in a bun, Zhu Ezai sits on a bamboo chair and stares at a small pile of Dahongpao tea on the table in front of her.
Nowadays, Xiamei village is just a dot on the map of China, but if you open a history of Chinese tea, you'll discover that the village once played a crucial role in the globalization of the beverage.
As we ate noodles at a snack bar in Xiamei village one late-July morning, we could hear the voices of children reading aloud coming from a nearby room.
'A man in his 90s sobbed at the door of an old adobe house. He grumbled that he had so much farm work to do every day, but his mother still assigned him new tasks, such as helping his grandmother chop firewood and cook supper. When asked where his mother was, the old man pointed to the mountains and said: 'She's cutting pigweed somewhere in the valley'."
The surface of the Gulf of Aden was flat except for the water stirred up by the Chinese hospital ship Peace Ark.
I love animals. Back at home in Xinjiang, I have two goldfish, "Tiny Gold" and "Beauty". I also have two cats, one is Xiao Gang or Little Tough, the other is Man Yue, or Full Moon, because of his beautiful eyes.
What's the best conversational icebreaker when you are on a cruise?
Peng Jianguo was giving instructions to his employees in the metals recycling unit at a new facility in Gejiu, Yunnan province, site of 24 percent of the world's tin deposits.
As one of the key projects for Gejiu's tin industry, Lai Qinguo's workshops, which make tin artifacts, moved to their current site in Shandian township two and a half years ago. The site covers 70 hectares and houses more than 10 workshops. The land was provided free of charge by the city government to encourage artisans such as Lai.
The arrest of Xue Manzi, a 60-year-old "celebrity" with more than 12 million followers on Sina Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, on charges of soliciting a prostitute has triggered a heated online discussion nationwide.
Editor's note: Chu, a Fudan University lecturer, writes a micro-blog under the name Wenyuangedaxueshi, or "Great Scholar". He has more than 50,000 followers on Sina Weibo.
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