The moment I learned that I would be joining a media tour of several detention centers and prisons in Shanghai, ominous images popped out immediately in my head: prisoners with sinister smiles, ferocious prison guards, and a beastly warden hiding under human form.
Shanghai is upgrading its detention system by providing professional medical care and mental support for suspects with special conditions such as HIV carriers.
He was one of the performers during the opening ceremony of the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games on Aug 16, but Yuan Jia did not know how stunning their wire stunts were until he saw the show himself on TV the next day.
When Liu Baoshan created the Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School 36 years ago, he had only one student.
Like many fellow Americans, Colin Malick used to think kung fu was more of a "Hollywood thing" rather than martial arts.
Less than a decade ago, Chen Lin spent about six hours a day tending to her vegetable garden.
It has been almost four years since Zhao Zhirong moved from her home in Sunjiawan village of Liuliping township in Danjiangkou to a suburb of Wuhan, capital of Hubei province.
In 1966, more than 70,000 people moved out of Danjiangkou, which was called Junxian county then.
Veteran security guard Zhang Qiang prides himself on a special skill.
Top beaches in China include Sanya in Hainan province, Qingdao in Shandong, Xiamen in Fujian and Beidaihe in Hebei.
Beidaihe was popular before top leaders made it their summer resort, said Sun Zhisheng, cultural consultant of Beidaihe district.
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