A Stitch In Time

Peng Shiping, a native of Chengdu, the capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province, has been doing Shu embroidery for decades now.

Beyond the sizzle

New French-style teppanyaki grill focuses on quality ingredients, Liu Zhihua reports.

Eat Beat

BEIJING

Ancient Americans got their caffeine fix from hundreds of miles away

The Associated Press

Don't duck this!

Flying with the crows

Van Gogh Alive, a long-anticipated art show on the Dutch master, has finally arrived in Beijing as part of its China tour.

More nations join Silk Road festival

The Second Silk Road International Arts Festival began in Xi'an earlier this month, with monthlong exhibitions, dramas, dances and concerts planned by visiting artists and officials from countries that shared trade and cultural links with China along a network of overland and marine routes in ancient times.

German billionaire's vast art collection on show in Berlin

He made his fortune with industrial hardware and used it to collect priceless art, from medieval treasures to modern masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore and Andy Warhol.

Bitter reality

The news that retired superstar Brigitte Lin (Lin Ching-hsia) will appear in an upcoming reality program on the tube was greeted with a wave of subdued ambivalence rather than elation.

Travel-time reading is transformed into a dance production

Last November, when Wang Yabin toured Europe with Genesis, a collaborative dance work she made with Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, she took with her the novel The Moon Opera, written by Chinese author Bi Feiyu, as well as DVDs of the TV series based on the novel.

Living on the road

Foreign companies are eyeing China as potential market for recreational vehicles. Xu Lin reports in Dusseldorf.

New Hohhot park highlights traditions

Hohhot hopes to cash in on its historical legacy as a center of commerce and has revived its ancient trade hub as a new tourism zone.