With online literature websites and mobile applications flourishing in China, a wide genre of fiction is readily available for readers.
A playful picture book about a little girl named Heather and her two happy mommies was a cultural and legal flashpoint 25 years ago, angering conservatives over the morality of same-sex parenting and landing libraries at the center of community battles over placement in the children's stacks.
James Bond is a British icon, but the fictional spy hero really was born in Jamaica, just as the Caribbean island gained its independence from the waning British empire.
The coming weeks are a feast for literature lovers in China as the annual Bookworm Literary Festival is held in eight cities across the country through March 29.
I'm from Dublin, Ireland, and after I graduated from university in 1992, I worked as a journalist for various newspapers and magazines in Central Europe and Africa. I moved to Hong Kong in 2000, and worked there as the foreign editor for a local newspaper, The Standard.
Novelist Ruth Ozeki's spiritual companion is a Zen master named Dogen. Dead for nearly 800 years, when you listen to Ozeki, you know he's there.
Antarctica is perhaps the closest travelers can come to experiencing an alien planet.
More Chinese are realizing the shining side of Spring Festival's Golden Week's exorbitant travel costs - the following two months are a gilded age for budget excursions.
Dawn's golden light caught the tops of the snowcapped Himalayas and gradually crept downward as the rising sun lit up a sweeping arc of soaring peaks, at once forbidding and starkly beautiful.
Most theaters in China aren't professionally run and don't make profits, according to a recent government report.
The influence of Arab, African and Asian art on Henri Matisse is the theme of a major collection of the French artist's work that has gone on show in Rome.
The effervescent revival of the 1978 musical comedy On the Twentieth Century that just steamed into the American Airlines Theater marks a bewitching Broadway return for Tony-and Emmy Award-winner Kristen Chenoweth as 1930s Hollywood diva Lily Garland.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263 Registration Number: 20100000002731 
Raymond Zhou
Op Rana
Berlin Fang
Zhu Yuan
Huang Xiangyang
Chen Weihua
