When I first ordered mutton for my daughters at a restaurant, I feared it might be a traumatizing experience for them.
Facebook? Of course. Books? Definitely not. Video games? For sure. Sport? No way. Speed? Yes. Patience? Not so much.
My toes were burning in pain. But I didn't dare to take off my socks to look.
What's believed to be the world's largest annual migration is taking place in China, as hundreds of millions travel from the cities where they live or work to their rural villages to celebrate the Spring Festival. The holiday is viewed as the most important time for family reunions. About 2.8 billion trips are expected nationwide during the 40-day travel rush, which began on Feb 4. That's a 3.4 percent increase over last year, official figures show. Armed police have been assigned to Beijing West Railway Station to ensure safety in packed waiting rooms.
The fast-expanding movie market in China is appearing to welcome more female directors and producers in a sector that's been dominated by males for decades.
Chinese video-streaming giant Youku Tudou recently announced its film lineup for 2015. But with the surprising absence of big stars and fancy subjects, the six films announced appear more like a collection of popular culture symbols.
The first episode of Passage to China, a three-part documentary co-produced by China's Ministry of Culture and Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, is set to be aired on Feb 21 on the network's Travel & Living channel across 37 countries in 15 languages. The show will have three 45-minute episodes that will seek to look at Chinese culture through a wide range of topics from the fine arts to food.
Eleven years after it was published in 2004, Jiang Rong's novel Wolf Totem, which sold as many as 5 million copies and was translated into 39 languages in 110 countries, will come to the big screen during the Chinese Lunar New Year
Though the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping (1904-97) has been portrayed on big screens many times as a legend, a recent film on him chooses a sideways angle and tries to show something beyond the stereotypes.
Reclining in a beige leather seat in his Gulfstream G550 private jet, Wang Jianlin barks an unlikely order as the aircraft descends into a remote pocket of southwestern China.
The small cubes of ganache are black and rich, and melt with the sweetness of Belgian dark chocolate, German cream and rum.
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