Five-year-old Fang Jiawei's parents were extremely worried about their son's future. They believed that if he couldn't enroll in a standard school, he would not find a job or support himself after they passed away.
There is a saying in China that "you're not a man until you've been to the Great Wall". And so it was that when I came to China, I headed towards the Great Wall to discover my masculinity.
For the first time, "Taiwan's king of pop", Jay Chou, and the "father of Chinese rock 'n' roll", Cui Jian, shared the same stage, at the Etsong Sports Center Stadium of Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province last Friday.
In recent years, dozens of international productions are being staged in China throughout any given performance season.
In the year 3 BC (Before China), I was a motoring writer working in Sydney. After joining China Daily last year, a colleague suggested we begin a Test Drive column. My 30-something friend was eager to learn about the nuts and bolts of motor journalism and was just like a boy who was given his first bicycle. He knew more about the brands, makes and models than I did. He certainly could talk the torque.
There have been many productions of Shakespeare's comedy Tempest, but UK actor Barrie Rutter promised that the drama of his Northern Broadsides troupe would be the funniest, even though they had no plans to change a word of the script.
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