One day in May 2005, 25-year-old Hangzhou native Chen Chu walked up to an abandoned building on Chaonei Dajie, Beijing. Built between 1912 and 1949, the three-story house stands like an isolated island in the surrounding mass of high-rise buildings. But what drew Chen to it were rumors that it is haunted - by the ghost of a warlord's concubine who hung herself to death there.
Years ago, a young man in his early 20s crawled along a 300-year-old bridge made of ivy rope that spanned a distance of 400 meters. Fifty meters below, huge foaming waves crashed upon the jagged cliffs of the mighty Yarlung Tsangbo Canyon in eastern Tibet Autonomous Region.
When a group of American tourists stopped by Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, during their three-week tour of China, they were invited to meet with 24 rural women teachers.
China's four great inventions (si da fa ming) are the compass, gunpowder, moveable type printing press and paper. But I believe the committee who voted on this list got it all wrong.
When Han Suyin was young, she met a handsome British reporter in Hong Kong. Over the following year, they struggled hard, because the reporter already had a wife.
Many filmmakers are reflecting on the upcoming 70th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, in which about 300,000 Chinese people in the then-capital (known as Nanking) were killed by invading Japanese troops.
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