Forget paying for a baby sitter. Why not take the kids to Broadway?
To download or not to download? That's the problem a new digital project hopes to solve by making performances of Shakespeare's plays available to audiences on demand for the first time.
During an overseas business trip two weeks ago, the strong investment promotion team from the Foshan Bureau of Commerce surprised their hosts in the United States, including a senior executive at IT giant Oracle and a Stanford law lecturer.
Located at the heart of the booming Pearl River Delta region, the Guangdong city of Foshan is a compelling destination for equipment manufacturers because of its solid industrial foundation and huge local demand.
Shanghai Big World Guinness recently recognized Beijing-based author Chen Tingyi as the Chinese writer who has produced the most biographies - 101, to be precise.
Drive over the flat, windswept lands of La Mancha to the village of El Toboso and you may recall the opening lines of the novel Don Quixote: "In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keeps a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack and a greyhound for coursing."
Before Buzzfeed, before Spy, before Rolling Stone and the Paris Review, there was Vanity Fair.
An all-woman jury on Monday awarded France's prestigious Femina Prize to Haiti's Yanick Lahens and Israeli author and suicide-attack survivor Zeruya Shalev for their family-based epics.
China Braille Library, the country's only such specialist facility, is working alongside other agencies to take more titles to blind readers. Xing Yi reports.
Chinese cities and towns are dotted with massage parlors, many of which are managed entirely by blind people. Of the estimated 17 million visually impaired Chinese, hundreds of thousands are said to serve as blind masseurs across the country, not just in parlors but medical facilities as well.
It feels like a fantasy to be inside a large hall, filled with the melody of Auld Lang Syne being played on a set of stone percussion musical instruments that date back to at least 2,000 years ago.
After years of cashing in on growing tourism, China's largest Miao ethnic minority village is urgently trying to retain its cultural allure in the face of a commercial boom.
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