Chinese people like to ask others: "Have you eaten?" as a way to say, "Hi!" Yet, for city dwellers leading fast-paced lives, eating has become a task to refill energy in a hurry or a networking opportunity, rather than something to enjoy at home.
Los Angeles-based multimedia artist Toni Scott presents an anthropological case study of her family history at a solo exhibition in Beijing, entitled DNA - Bloodlines and the Family of Mankind.
While public libraries' role in ancient-book preservation is thoroughly documented, an ongoing exhibition chronicles a less-known chapter written by private collectors.
Babajide Olatunji sold his first portrait for about $7. Seven years later, his charcoal renderings of faces with tribal markings sell for thousands of dollars.
It's called performance art and is a bit hard to define, because it tends to be interdisciplinary and informal. But loosely put, it's a field where people engage in live action to express themselves to audiences through music, dance, poetry, theater, painting and more.
Atamira Dance Company, a leading Maori performing arts entity from New Zealand, will make its China debut at the Beijing Dance Festival on July 25.
They've peered from the Empire State Building, admired masterpieces at the Louvre and relaxed at the hot springs near Mount Fuji. Now Chinese tourists are tackling the next thing on their must-do lists: world-class marathons.
Seven years ago, Martin Dabilly saw an opportunity and took it, growing raspberries in Kunming with the help and expertise of his family, Chen Liang and Li Yingqing report
Martin Dabilly says that raspberries he grows at his family-run Meiming Raspberry Farm in Songming county are safe to eat without washing, but he refuses to promote his fruits as organic.
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