For students who don't shine in their university entrance examinations, vocational schools offer alternative paths to success. Sun Yuanqing visits one institution in Guizhou.
Cao Dongxue believes that among Chinese oenologists and wine educators, she can translate best, and among the translators of French, she knows the most about wine.
It is not something to be taken lightly. Left untreated it can kill as quickly as a physically debilitating disease. Liu Zhihua takes a closer look at depression.
More than 350 million people of all ages suffer from depression worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
The lack of social awareness regarding the debilitating effects of depression is prompting Chinese patients to go online to support each other with much-needed sympathy.
Experts are calling for early detection of breast cancer in China, which has seen a rising number of patients.
A back injury led Briton Rose Oliver to tai chi, which led her to her husband and then took both of them to China. But three years after moving to Shanghai to pursue their dream, Oliver's husband died, leaving her alone to follow their shared passion for tai chi.
During lunch time, the food court at the China World Trade Center is a jumble of tension and chaos. Suddenly, it is quieted by the loud, sonorous voice of a woman singing. Suddenly, people young and old, wearing face mics, stand up from among the crowd and move toward the center of the space, all the while singing old songs that call forth people's common memories.
Jiang Shumei was illiterate for much of her life. She only started learning to write Chinese characters at 60. Not only did she become proficient enough to read the voluminous Mo Yan collections, she turned to writing at 75 and produced a popular memoir a year later.
The six most important archaeology discoveries of 2013 were unveiled by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in December, with the earliest dating back more than 4,000 years.
At a meeting of writers, Sinologists and publishing professionals in Beijing in December, a wry joke circulated. In the past, the experts said to each other, only three types of Chinese books found their way into Western readers' libraries: traditional culture, controversy and anything about beauty and sex.
An article recently published in Swiss newspaper Berner Zeitung refers to Chinese publishing as a mysterious "Black Box" lacking channels to get information and feedback.
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