What does the world look like through the eyes of a 27-year-old woman? It may be a vision of a happy marriage and adorable children, or an aspiring career. For Zheng Xiaoqiong, a rural migrant worker and poet, life feels just like a piece of iron.
The plight of rural migrant workers has become a prominent issue lately, not only at the annual NPC and CPPCC sessions, but also in literature and film.
Professor Howard Goldblatt, acclaimed by some as the most important translator of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, will appear at the global launch of his English translation of Wolf Totem tomorrow in Beijing.
Some 20 years after reading an 18th century Chinese novel, Nicholas Jose still remembers it. The impression was so deep that the former cultural councilor with the Australian Embassy to China wrote a novel to fill in the missing chapters of the original work.
The image of a huge cartoon monkey, wearing a bright red Peking Opera mask, is projected on a school classroom wall behind a plump young man, making soft gestures with his not-so-slim fingers. The unexpected visitor - a traditional Peking Opera character - causes the 30 students to erupt with excitement.
Incubus is a huge international act. This band of hard-rockers has sold almost 10 million albums over 15 years and has been tirelessly touring the world. So is there anything else left to achieve?
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