The screen overlooking New York's Times Square - the "crossroads of the world" - today shows a dreamlike Chinese landscape.
The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal's flow seems to follow the direction of fortune - especially since its ancient glory is being reconstructed after being destroyed in World War II and 85 sites along the canal have jointly applied for UNESCO World Heritage status.
Chaya Walkin Small always wears two ornaments around her neck: a pair of 70-year-old gold cufflinks and a silver medal that she got nine months ago.
For San Francisco resident Hedy Durlester, the story of how her Jewish family escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe to Asia had been kept quiet for years. Her parents never wanted their daughter - 3 years old at the time - to remember the fear they lived through.
Alpinist Phentog, the first Chinese woman to ascend to the peak of Mount Qomolangma (known in the West as Mount Everest), died of complications from diabetes in a local hospital in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, on Monday.
Every film company wants to make hits, but not every one of them is ready to engage in marketing and sales maneuvers so outlandish many deem them barely legal.
Years ago, bikes were simply vehicles that transported people from one place to another. Today, fashion and vintage style have become part of bicycle culture and a cool pair of wheels is essential to a green lifestyle.
For many years, Chinese films that enjoyed success at European film festivals have struggled at the box office, but Diao Yinan's Golden Bear winner Black Coal, Thin Ice is bucking that trend.
Beijing has become the latest battlefield for Hollywood superheroes.
Beijing resident Zou Wen is very proud of her 16-year-old son.
Whenever Li watches her 3-year-old son getting along well with other children in the kindergarten, she gets so emotional that tears well up in her eyes. Such scenes, which may seem normal to most parents, used to be beyond her wildest dreams until she met a doctor last October.
The United States government's estimate of autism has moved up again, to 1 in 68 US children, a 30-percent increase in two years.
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