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The Chinese art of mythmaking

[2014-05-29 06:53]

In the minds of most Chinese, the word "Harvard" is synonymous with educational excellence - to the point of overshadowing other equally top-notch Western institutions of higher education except maybe Oxford and Cambridge.

Trekkie star savors his long-ago future

[2014-05-29 06:53]

Nearly a half-century after its inception, Star Trek remains hotter and more relevant than ever.

Healing in the countryside

[2014-05-28 06:58]

Raise the Child in the Countryside is not the kind of parenting book that is written by "tiger moms" or "wolf dads", explaining their way of bringing up children to excel. It is by a mother whose daughter had problems fitting into society.

Inside Velter's world

[2014-05-28 06:58]

You don't need to be born into royalty to live a charmed life as French poet Andre Velter shows.

She's got dreams for the small screen

[2014-05-28 06:58]

Liu Yunxia owes a debt almost equal to her family's annual income. Yet she is not worried because, having just published her first novel, she feels she is one step closer to realizing her dream of making a TV drama series.

Pavilion rebuilt in tribute to poet

[2014-05-28 06:58]

A pavilion in which French Nobel laureate in literature Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) finished writing his signature work, Anabase, has been reconstructed, almost a century after the writer first arrived in Beijing.

Show me the money

[2014-05-28 06:58]

Capital in the Twenty-First Century by French economist Thomas Piketty has attracted praise and invective alike on its way to the top of the Amazon.com books best-seller list.

Book brief

[2014-05-28 06:58]

The Three Sarah Lotz

Chasing the fading music

[2014-05-27 07:13]

Muya music might already be lost if Yang Hua had not given up her job as a mathematics teacher.

Data analyst turns sights from music to books

[2014-05-27 07:13]

In 2009, Alexander S. White, a former Universal Music Group intern, co-founded a company called Next Big Sound that analyzed vast amounts of data about musicians-from Twitter activity to Wikipedia searches to radio appearances-and showed how it affected sales.

'World's ugliest woman' wants to make anti-bullying film

[2014-05-27 07:13]

In December 2013, she inspired millions with her TED Talk online. Now Lizzie Velasquez, once called" the world's ugliest woman", hopes to reach an even wider audience through an anti-bullying documentary about her story.

Tea addict

[2014-05-27 07:13]

China's alcohol culture was the first thing Warren Peltier came into contact with when he arrived in the country in 2006.

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