Fans of late British author Terry Pratchett, many in science-fantasy costumes, lined up outside bookshops overnight as the final installment in the Discworld series went on sale on Thursday.
As interest in China grows around the world, especially in the West, scholars at home are trying to help their foreign counterparts better understand Chinese history.
Zhang Qing nearly burst into tears while visiting a dozen Russian museums earlier this year.
My British friend Craig arrived in China with no fear of chicken feet.
Poet and food critic Er Mao now lives in Beijing, but the 53-year-old often travels to his hometown, a small county in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality, to bring its local flavors back to the capital.
A year ago, Liu Huan, an independent art curator from Beijing, told his 86-year-old grandfather, Wang Qingyun, he'd initiate an art project that would mix Chinese calligraphy and contemporary art.
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.
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