American TV enters China's mainstream

Caroline Channing was in town. Leonard Hofstadter debuted in the capital. Vampire Stefan Salvatore was in the spotlight in Shanghai.

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Life among the birds

People thought Wu Zhou was dead.

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Artist to show oil paintings in Germany

On the glory road home

For the migrant workers at all levels, the annual Spring Festival holidays offer the only chance each year to connect with family and friends back home, and to show off the results of 12 months' hard work.

Screen gems?

Before Spring Festival arrived on the last day of January, the holiday season was looking rather bleak for China's film industry. Box-office intake for December suffered a 17-percent decline, from 2.55 billion yuan ($421 million) in 2012 to 2.14 billion in 2013, making it the first time in 12 years it failed to maintain its status as the strongest month in box-office revenue.

Strong Chinese turnout in this year's Berlin Film Festival

After a conspicuous and pride-busting absence from the three biggest European film festivals, Chinese movies staged a surprise comeback at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, known as Berlinale, which runs from Feb 6 to 16. As many as three Chinese films have been selected for the 23-film-strong main competition, including No Man's Land, Ning Hao's dark take on humanity that took four long years to go through the censorship pipeline. The film, which opened on Dec 3, 2013, in China, was both a critical and commercial hit, raking in 260 million yuan at the box office.

City of Springs

The ancient waterways of Jinan are the lifeblood of the city. Li Yang explores the ancient springs that are still cherished by local people.

Daming Lake reflects the memories of Jinan residents

Were it not for Daming Lake, Jinan's springwater would lose its charm.

Light for a new year

Spring Festival revelers in Zhuanghe are snapping up animal lanterns representing the Chinese zodiac sign for the lunar year in which they were born. Zhu Chengpei and Zhang Xiaomin report on the fun and the tradition in Dalian.

Rose dealer sells flowers for life

You have ordered flowers from Roseonly for your lover, but now you two have broken up. Do you want to send flowers to your new lover?