Shanghai's luxury shopping malls are no longer satisfied with hanging festive decorations and running sales for promotion and branding. The new hot attraction to lure shoppers is art.
The year 2013 saw musical tributes paid to two of the greatest talents from the world of opera: Richard Wagner from Germany and Giuseppe Verdi from Italy.
When Chen Jinfang and her younger brother Chen Rentai started their record company in 1993, neither knew much about the music industry.
Veteran songwriter and producer Luan Shu found himself in a dilemma all of last year.
East or West, home is best. Two parallel exhibitions at the Beijing World Art Museum show the similarities and differences in how Chinese and Western interior furnishing bring dwellers comfort and security.
While planners and decorators are gathering horse images as the Chinese New Year approaches, nine young designers at China Post are a year ahead of the game. They've just finished a competition to create stamps for the Finnish autonomous region of Aland, an archipelago of 6,500 islands famous for an endemic breed of sheep.
It was in the later years of the 1990s, and beef hotpot restaurants were catching on in popularity in Beijing. Si Guiquan was working as a butcher at a slaughterhouse that offered meat processing services to some of the capital's most popular restaurants.
Standing in front of 10 blind children in a small lecture-room, CaiCong instructs them step-by-step how to take a photo without seeing an object.
In the 1960s, when China's economy was strictly centrally planned, Hainan's thousands of hectares of coffee orchards were State owned. No one could pick coffee cherries without permission - except the birds.
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