Though it may not have internationally renowned metropolises, Fujian province in southeastern China is filled with cities reputed for their cultural richness and year-round clean air.
As an impoverished art student Rose Wylie posed for a painting to illustrate a nationwide advertising campaign for Aero bars aimed at women, with the slogan that this chocolate was "different".
Down by Law, one of the great cult films of the 80s, is alternately downbeat, witty, bleak and optimistic.
The 632-meter Shanghai Tower will become China's tallest building and the world's second-tallest after the 828-meter Burj Khalifa Tower in Dubai.
Mu Yuqi, a 23-year-old college graduate, turned down a job offer from a bank in Shanghai. The reason was simple - he did not want to work in a skyscraper.
Fifty-six year-old Liu Wen-jing developed a new hobby after she retired-taking nutritional products twice a day to alleviate high cholesterol and knee pain.
Eva Long is passionate about exercising. She goes to the gym three times a week and has a personal trainer. But the 30-year-old also takes a weight management product to improve her fitness. She spends about 6,000 yuan ($967) a year on nutrition and weight management products.
The excitement of the crowd can be felt as well as heard around the equestrian field where horses gallop across the turf.
Two toys based on Walt Disney Co's hit animated film made it onto Adventure Publishing Group's Toy Insider Hot 20 list released Tuesday, making Disney the only entertainment company with multiple items on the roster.
The First Beijing International Fine Art Fair, which will run from Oct 9 to 12, unveiled its highlights for Chinese buyers on Sept 15, featuring dozens of artworks by leading Western artists like French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Spanish cubist Pablo Picasso.
Famed writer Zhang Xianliang, known to be one of the first Chinese novelists to have broken the taboo on sex in literature with his works after the "cultural revolution" (1966-76), died on Saturday. He was 78.
Many contemporary Chinese artists, including Xu Bing, Fang Lijun and Zhou Chunya, majored in engraving at college. The art form, which served as a revolutionary propaganda tool in the early 20th century, is still a source of inspiration for them, no matter what the artists now specialize in.
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