The first thing He Guowu looks for when he is back in Dunhuang city in Gansu province is latiaozi (pulled noodles), a local staple that is hard to find at his post in the Yumen Pass.
On Sunday evening, when my family and I arrived for a dinner with my in-laws at a Beijing restaurant, I was surprised to see sitting at the head of the table my wife's father who, proudly wearing a soccer shirt, chatted enthusiastically about the soccer World Cup with my brother-in-law.
As an American, especially after the United States beat Ghana in this year's World Cup, I feel guilty admitting I could really care less about soccer. Although some Americans enjoy the sport, I am not alone in my indifference toward it.
In my last column, I wrote about the strong feeling of indigenous culture I experienced in China. I would like to describe what I think that indigenous quality is in any person from anywhere - and what has been done to disturb it.
Zhang Yimou says his next film will be "an action blockbuster with a fantastic touch".
While a timepiece reminds anybody of the irreversible flow of time, a good film makes time stand still. Yet, with a common commitment to preserve precious cinematic history, a watch manufacturer and a film festival are ushering in their fourth year of collaboration.
Amid the swirl of an early 1960s party scene in Clint Eastwood's latest project, an adaptation of Jersey Boys, the hit Broadway musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, a television screen flashes an unexpected face: young Eastwood, himself, in black-and-white.
When Aaron Ramsey scored the winning goal during overtime for Arsenal in the English Football Association cup final last month, 75-year-old Liu Hongwen stood inside London's Wembley stadium, holding back tears amid the cheering crowd. "My heart almost stood still before the final whistle," she says.
Japanese architect Norihiko Dan has worked on many major buildings, but he now has his sights set on a smaller project - to build a modern Buddhist Zen temple in China. Sun Yuanqing reports.
"To see China as it is, not as we wish or fear it to be" was the catch-cry of well-known US diplomat and China expert Charles W. Freeman, Jr.
The latest H&M Loves Music collection was unveiled last month, as a special campaign designed for fans from China, Singapore and Malaysia.
Q: What made International Channel Shanghai produce such a TV documentary in collaboration with Kuhn's team?
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