Taiwan artist on Plato, scrap metal and history

Hsi Shih-pin, a Taipei-based artist, uses metals and calculations in his sculptures to depict the universe in its many dimensions.

Nanjing festival seeks to grow with foreign and Chinese art

About 20 works from Pablo Picasso, all owned by a Chinese collector, will be shown to the public at the Nanjing International Art Festival in September.

Strictly Square Dancing

Day and night across China, groups of middle-aged, retirees, mostly women, gather together to dance in open spaces, such as parks and public squares.

Frosting on the cake

Marie Antoinette probably never uttered the phrase so often attributed to her: Let them eat cake.

For French baker, China is all about love and loaves

French native Jean-Pierre Morel, now in his 50s, has loved the smell of baking since he was a little boy. At the age of 16, he became an apprentice at a bakery in Paris. When he was 24, he opened his first bakery, and now has three independent bakeries in the French capital.

Pizza noir

Capital Sounds

When singer-songwriter Marie-Claude Lebel arrived in Beijing in 2002, she was heartbroken.

Pitbull back with bite on second China tour

US rapper Pitbull's last show in Beijing two years ago was a huge hit with fans and now the hip hop artist is set to return.

Mraz returns with cosmic sounds, new friends

Jason Mraz is returning to China with a show he promises will be "very cosmic".

Ciao, Macao

Alatecomer to the Maritime Silk Road's history and lore, Macao made up for lost time quickly because of the 16th-century arrival of the Portuguese.

Museums put ramen on a culinary pedestal

There are two kinds of ramen in this world. There's the packaged staple of dorm-room cuisine, one of the most processed, industrialized foods ever invented. And then there's the trendy, artisanal, handmade soup that fans line up for hours to try.

Sports star gets model makeover

Lin Dan is best known as the invincible "Super Dan" on the badminton court, but he is also pretty fierce in a designer suit.