On Oct 10, more than 200 people in their 50s were at a lecture hall at the National Library of China, singing in chorus: "(We) enjoy the caress of spring together, and go through winds and rains together."
More funds, greater awareness needed to preserve one of the world's ancient wonders, Wang Kaihao reports.
For foreign auction houses that aren't legally allowed to sell Chinese antiquities on the mainland, an important strategy is to create new collection fields.
A three-storied house in a narrow lane in downtown Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province, appears to be a museum with a large-scale exhibition going on.
A Shanghai entrepreneur in the fishery business didn't think restaurants were doing his prized hairy crabs justice on the plate. That's why he started his own restaurants, he tells Xu Junqian on one of his boats on Taihu Lake.
For the first time in its 171-year history, Australia's prestigious wine producer Penfolds presented a complete annual wine collection outside Australia. The new global release, unveiled on Thursday in Shanghai, consists of five vintages across 20 appellations and provenances, led by the 2011 vintage of the flagship Grange.
Box-office trickery can take many forms. Jazzing up attendance by paying for empty seats may embellish a report card, but it risks creating a bubble in the long term. China's film business is booming. By the end of the National Day holiday week in October, the year's total box office was 35 billion yuan ($5.56 billion), higher than the cumulative takings of 2014, which stood at 29.6 billion.
The songs of Huun Huur Tu are derived from the chants of horseback riders of the Tuva Republic, a member of the Russian Federation, located in southern Siberia along the border with Mongolia.
The African country is striving to charm Chinese with streamlined visa procedures and promotions. Yang Feiyue discovers the nation's appeal in Fez and Rabat. Yang Feiyue
Kenya is hoping that the recent introduction of direct flights from the Chinese mainland to the East African nation and increased marketing of the country as a tourist destination will draw more visitors from China, a senior tourism official in the country says.
The Maldives has topped a list of Chinese tourists' 20 favorite island destinations.
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