A troop of raincoat-clad foragers are tramping through a forest in deep mountains damp from a recent rain, their eyes searching the ground for any trace of summer's treasured treats - wild mushrooms.
The room has the rustic look of a warehouse, with its wooden tables, brick walls, industrial metal chairs and a polished, modern bar. Warm, yellow bulbs hang on black wires, creating a nice contrast between softness and a bit of edge. A hand-painted beer menu hanging on the wall adds a collage of color, while a flashy sign reading "BEER" lights up a back corner.
Renowned celebrity chef Jacques Pepin will soon be an octogenarian, but the award-winning cook is still going strong.
As a representative of the post-1970 generation of Chinese artists, Yin Zhaoyang rose to stardom through his oil paintings that are characterized by some degree of pain from his youth.
The Ministry of Culture's three-week training program to help foreign scholars better understand China, entered its second year on Monday and will run through July 25.
In Liverpool's Granby neighborhood, proud residents and a group of architects have brought back to life the area's four remaining Victorian streets, earning them a nomination for Britain's prestigious Turner Prize for contemporary art.
It hasn't waltzed into market triumph yet, but the Beijing Dance Festival is still kicking seven years after its inception.
Misty Copeland, the Missouri-born ballerina who's become a forceful voice for diversity in ballet and achieved a rare celebrity that far transcends dance, was named principal dancer at American Ballet Theater on Tuesday - the first African-American woman to reach that status in the company's 75-year history.
The lone-woman play Emily of Emerald Hill will return to Beijing this Wednesday to Sunday, after its first round of performances in April.
Faiths encompass every corner of the globe. They congregate in Fujian province's Quanzhou.
Indian movie makers look to compete for greater attention from Chinese audiences after a recent success
The imaginative and wide-ranging work of Britain's Heatherwick Studio may still be little-known in the United States, but a traveling exhibition aims to change that.
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