When asked by some visitors if he knew about Canadian Dr Norman Bethune, Xu Menglin, a 79-year-old farmer in a remote mountain village of Hebei in North China, asks: "Have you ever met him?"
Often, I feel helpless at night - the number of sheep I have counted could fill a dozen pens, but I am still alert and perky as if I am about to watch a horse race.
Every day, 26-year-old Li Yanbo spends one or two hours translating English articles from the Internet. He then posts his translations on www.yeeyan.com, a website which says its aim is to "discover, translate and read the essence of the Internet world in non-Chinese languages".
According to a recent poll, two out of three people believe there are too many surveys published in the media.
At the age of 17, model worker Guo Fenglian was a household name. In an era before television, mobile phones and reality TV shows, Guo was the 1960s version of today's Supergirl winner. By toiling in terraced cornfields, and doing the arduous farm work even men found too harsh to bear, she became the head of Dazhai, a "pace-setter village" in North China's Shanxi province.
All of Huan Zi's friends know how scared she is of dentists. This is not her fault. In her childhood, a dentist once pulled a dangling tooth out of her mouth without anesthesia. When Huan Zi recounts this incident vividly to the handsome dentist in front of her, he looks astonished.
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