Surprise, a series of short comedies broadcast on China's leading video-streaming website Youku, has attracted more than 2 billion clicks since its premiere in 2013.
A couple of years ago, it was still a general belief in China's online video industry that working with TV stations means greater influence and a better chance of success. But now China's major video websites have already been independently making programs that, with ever growing investments, are as appealing as TV productions and create even more social interest.
The dinosaurs are bigger, the rides are scarier and there's a dashing new leading pair as the main attraction: Jurassic World is open for business again and hoping to entice a new generation used to getting more bang for its movie buck.
Abreathtaking photography show at the United Nations Headquarters in New York has offered an insight into China's efforts to preserve its natural environment.
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin failed to win the Nebula Award on Saturday, but the book has still made history as the first Chinese sci-fi novel to enter the shortlists of two of the top fantasy awards in the world - the Nebula and Hugo awards.
After three years with a prestigious mentor, a young drama enthusiast is staging Western plays translated into Chinese, Chen Nan reports.
Eighteen years ago, while traveling to Frankfurt, Taiwan-based musician Huang Chia-Wei came across a group of German finger-style guitarists at a musical-instrument exhibition. He was struck by the distinctive sounds made by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, which spanned a broad range of genres, including folk, jazz and blues, and intrigued by the guitarists' techniques, like finger picking, strumming and harmonics. As soon as he returned home, Huang began digging into finger-style guitar playing.
The outbreak of the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome in South Korea - the largest such spread of the viral infection outside of Saudi Arabia - is raising concerns among Chinese tourists.
Hong Kong said on Tuesday it would issue a red alert against non-essential travel to South Korea where eight new cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome were reported, bringing the total to 95 with seven fatalities.
The recent capsizing of Eastern Star, with 456 people on board, will not affect cruise ship tourism in China in the long term, but may have an immediate fallout, an analyst says.
With Japan's tourist numbers and hotel prices on the rise thanks to a weaker yen, developers are getting creative with a new niche line in stylish but cheap accommodation in bunks, cabins and pods of all shapes and sizes.
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