The new TV production of Dream of the Red Chamber (Hong Lou Meng), the classic Chinese novel, has been the talk of the town ever since it was raised as an idea. Now director Li Shaohong has sparked further chatter by co-teaming with eight young scriptwriters.
Following a lengthy strike, Hollywood writers have just scored a historic victory, yet their counterparts in China are just embarking on the quest to protect some of their most basic rights.
Panda pornography has been used to encourage lazy pandas to have sex but now a fresh routine is keeping the threatened species alive. Young male pandas are now taking part in a rigorous "sexercise" program.
Li Jia of the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base has a dream job - she gets to cuddle baby pandas everyday and has been doing so for the past five years.
As Yu Fangfang, 8, reaches the riverbank in Maji township in northwestern Yunnan province, she hoists a pulley onto a 200 m-long steel rope hanging over the thundering Nujiang River.
Wearing a Scottish kilt despite the early spring breeze, Mark Cousins walks briskly though Beijing's 798 Art District. Attracting curious looks, he wanders in the art district with his hands framing out the best angles before telling the cameraman to start filming.
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