Li Yanming is bald, brawny and has an icy stare. The 27-year-old jokes that he looks like a stereotypical gangster - which is not far from the truth. He was jailed in 2002 for robbery but was released early in 2006 to serve time at a community correction center in southern Beijing's Daxing district.
Vocal art usually refers to singing, but when Yang Dan talks about it she means the art of voice acting. The 24-year-old fell in love with the voice while still an elementary school student. That was when she discovered Dark Justice, a Hollywood drama series and a Japanese cartoon that were dubbed into Chinese by a group of voice actors who were based in Liaoning province.
On a freezing dark night, we parked at the foot of our new apartment building. It didn't take us long to realize that the security guard and a few passers-by were gazing at our window. Xiao Shu, our decoration director, was leaning by the window and counting cash.
A decidedly non-bling canvas carry-all last year became the unlikely choice of arm-candy for a league of spoiled Hollywood celebrities fuelling the phenomenon of the "It bag".
Lu Meiting arrives early at her office job to check e-mails and daily work arrangements before logging onto her favorite daily routine.
In the past four decades the China Oriental Song and Dance Ensemble (COSDE), founded under the auspices of late premier Zhou Enlai and vice-premier Chen Yi, has been responsible for entertaining foreign dignitaries and other visitors.
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