Welcome to New Year's resolution junction. It's a busy place around this time of year, when those promises we make to ourselves are either furiously alive or dead on arrival.
Like most Chinese, Italians are big fans of the warm sweetness of chestnuts. At Opera Bombana, Chef Marino D'Antonio crafts the seasonal goodies into his Monte Bianco, a small tower of dessert that combines caramel sponge cake, chestnut cream, bits of roasted nut and chestnut ice cream. There's a hint of rum in there, somewhere, too. 128 yuan ($19.40), with one or two spoons.
While the country's art market has seen a decline due to an economic slowdown and the crackdown on graft, the Internet seems to offer a ray of hope, Deng Zhangyu reports.
About 2,700 lanterns were lit on Saturday along streets of Singapore's Chinatown, kicking off celebrations for the Year of the Monkey in the heritage district.
Art dealers in China have complained in the past that local consumers have been slow to purchase art for wall decorations as compared with Western buyers.
Before you haul your New Year's resolutions to the gym, take stock of what you're eating. Local fitness gurus are becoming menu planners, they tell Mike Peters, because diet can be the first step to that beach body.
Like most Chinese, Italians are big fans of the warm sweetness of chestnuts. At Opera Bombana, Chef Marino D'Antonio crafts the seasonal goodies into his Monte Bianco, a small tower of dessert that combines caramel sponge cake, chestnut cream, bits of roasted nut and chestnut ice cream. There's a hint of rum in there, somewhere, too. 55 yuan ($8.40), with one or two spoons.
Welcome to New Year's resolution junction. It's a busy place around this time of year, when those promises we make to ourselves are either furiously alive or dead on arrival.
The discovery of an important cache of Buddhist sutras in Dunhuang, in 1900 had a profound influence on Chinese fine arts in the 20th century.
No stone evokes China like jade. Lately, 4,000-year-old pieces found in Hubei province are shedding new light on an ancient industry, report Lei Xiaoxun in Beijing, and Zhou Lihua and Liu Kun in Wuhan.
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