New Zealand-based Chinese painter Mu Xun recently held an exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, showcasing dozens of his oil paintings from the past decade.
Nouvelle cuisine has done much to promote food as art, but great presentation has been essential to Chinese food for centuries. Mike Peters writes.
Soul Bowls is the latest pop-up concept from the folks who were behind the Beijing summer hit Buena Onda. This time they're taking over the kitchen at The Bookworm every morning for the next three weeks, with one-dish meals like Mexicalicious (pictured): Warm quinoa salad with organic housemade chorizo, corn, kale, chipotle, "Aztec spice", cherry tomatoes and a fan of ripe avocado - a nice surprise on a frosty morning for just 60 yuan ($9.40). The brief but rich menu also includes soups, cold-dish bowls, great coffee, fresh juices and smoothies.
The trendy cafe looks like a typical coffee shop in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, but in fact it sells herb-infused brews promising to fix every ailment from coughs to impotence.
China celebrates UNESCO founding with pledge to protect its own sites and do more, Wang Kaihao reports.
Chinese who grew up in the 1980s and '90s played with catapults or flew kites much like the previous generations. But today's young Chinese are into different games because of the Web.
A museum dedicated to aloeswood carvings and related art recently opened in Beijing's Dongcheng district. The private museum showcases a collection of more than 100 pieces of carvings using such resinous wood, as well as raw aloeswood of rare scales, including a giant trunk standing about 10 meters high in the courtyard of the house where it's located.
As China gets increasingly urban, traditional villages are vanishing. A recent summit was held to explore ways to preserve the landscape. Wang Kaihao reports in Qiandongnan, Guizhou province.
As his fingers run over the strings, we hear a thunderstorm and rain. When he whistles, you hear the wind. Horses run wild when he strikes his horseshoe-shaped percussion instrument, which has pairs of bells that dance to his touch.
Heilongjiang is running new travel routes devoted to all that makes China's northernmost province a winter wonderland. Yang Feiyue and Erik Nilsson report.
When it comes to skiing, New Mexico has long been the stepchild of sorts to its northern neighbor, Colorado, and its abundance of larger, snowier mountains and well-developed towns and resorts.
What a difference 33 years make! The gathering for my college class that I attended a week ago was full of hugs and laughter, but more importantly, it was an embodiment of the dramatic changes that the country has witnessed in that time.
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