A romance in France. A knack for making people cry. A chance meeting with a future benefactor. The discovery of a troublemaker like himself. Such are the unlikely milestones in the development of Wang Quan'an as a world-famous film director.
At first glance, the airline industry represents the ultimate victory of globalization: same planes, rules, suspicious stares at Customs. However, bucking trends is what China does best and I was pleased to find the norms being tweaked in a cross-country flight.
When Yu Xueli's mother died two years ago, the family bought a one-square-meter grave for 26,000 yuan ($3,250) in the suburbs of Shanghai, an hour's drive from the city center.
I've always felt that the lonely hearts advertisements in the newspaper classifieds are brilliant. At a time when telegrams are rare, such ads have carried on the essence of that dying communique: They exaggerate and entice as much as the word limit permits.
Joseph Stalin's shiny new gift to Chairman Mao Zedong just wouldn't work. When Mao visited the former Soviet Union in early 1950, he rode in a Russian-made ZIS limousine, which Stalin later sent to Beijing as a present.
The Los Angeles Zoo has paid a feng shui expert $4,500 to make three little Chinese monkeys feel warm and fuzzy in their new luxury compound. Some may think the zoo officials have gone bananas, but $4,500 is only peanuts compared to the $7.4 million being spent on this mega monkey mansion.
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