The bells are 2,500 years old, but their melodies still resound today.
Chen Xinghua's childhood idol was his late uncle, Wei Changxiu - an esteemed folk singer in Daha, a mountainous and isolated village located in Ziyun county, Guizhou province.
The BBC's three-episode experiment with Chinese-style teaching did not so much set off the spark as fan the flame, which is the intermittent and often heated discourse on the merits, or more accurately lack thereof, of the traditional way of Chinese education.
Rebirth of the Ground, an amateur Japanese chorus group, will debut in Beijing on Tuesday, as part of celebrations of China's victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45).
Chin Shih-chieh feels like having a cigarette. Sitting on a stone footstep of the Poly Theater in Beijing, the Taiwan actor lowers his head without saying a word.
Exactly 70 years ago on Aug 29 the Chinese writer Yu Dafu disappeared from his home in what is now Indonesia - the day before his daughter Yu Meilan was born - never to be seen alive again.
White-collar Chinese are buying horses and galloping into a traditionally - and still predominately - elite pursuit. Yang Feiyue reports.
Beijing is not exactly a city crawling with spas for pets. But there are places you can take your furry friends on fun outings.
Blaring house music, colored lights, glittery faces and gyrating bodies are not your typical weekday morning. But that's the way it is for growing numbers of health-minded 20-somethings and retired clubbers no longer keen on all-night partying.
A star chef is back in his native northern Italy, where he makes fresh ingredients shine in a lavish restoration of a medieval palace, Mike Peters reports.
The dish sounded great to a group of Chinese tourists in Venice. They had struggled over the menu - they understand English, but the Italian was complicating things.
In 2003, Benjamin Devos worked at an international hotel in Beijing for seven months, and that short stay changed the young Frenchman's life.
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