As World Book Day, April 23, approaches, various reading events are being held by government agencies, libraries and bookstores throughout the capital.
Young writer Li Zelin is so popular that his fans traveled from cities outside of Beijing, such as Baoding in Hebei province, just to be able to speak with him in person. A crowd of 150 people, mostly college students, attended an event on April 12 in the capital hosted by his publisher, Guangxi Science and Technology Publishing House.
Since his 2010 debut, novelist Ned Beauman, 29, has established a reputation for clever plots replete with memorable characters, vivid prose and some odd medical conditions.
In the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in northwestern China, wolves use their two rear legs to grab their tails and urinate on them.
May Day holiday travel is expected to be more than twice that of the recent April 4-6 Tomb Sweeping Day. Floods of visitors will land in Japan and South Korea, for example, because of favorable visa policies and a stronger yuan, a report by major Chinese online travel company Ctrip says.
Remember when a visit to Las Vegas was all about gambling? Massive, windowless casinos with air-conditioning and free drinks kept guests oblivious to the passage of time while they sat at slot machines and card tables for hours on end.
Industry players agree that the organizers' plan to hit the big time in three to five years is possible. Xu Fan reports.
All eyes are now set on the winner's list for the 5th Beijing International Film Festival that opened to a grand start last week.
Huang Binhong's landscape style is affectionately called "a lump of thick, dark ink", but his paintings do feature a variety of colors.
Christie's auction house is set to bring works of "old masters", paintings from the 14th to 19th centuries, to the Asian market.
Visiting Mexican chef Eduardo Perez Romero says that if you've never been to Mexico, your idea of his country's cuisine may be entirely wrong.
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