The Sino-Russian Tea Road, or the "10 thousand li (5,000 kilometers) of tea road" that once saw tea from East China's Fujian province carried all the way to Mongolia and Russia had its heyday almost two hundred years ago.
Harper Lee's second novel, Go Set a Watchman, topped the US bestseller list in 2015, selling 1.6 million copies more than half a century after her Pulitzer-winning first book To Kill a Mockingbird was published.
He is well-known for painting quirky pictures of birds using scratch lines. But this distinctive style, which Ye Yongqing began using in 2000, also invited ridicule.
As a well-known tourist site in East China's Zhejiang province, Wuzhen is often in the headlines - either for the World Internet Conference or for its theater festival.
There are two questions Ruth Fine has heard repeatedly from visitors emerging from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts' comprehensive retrospective of work by artist Norman Lewis.
It's no surprise that lamb steals the show at the Kempinski Yinchuan's Chinese restaurant, Zhong.
The most interesting dinner of 2015 may have been served in Shanghai late last fall, when the World Congress on Art Deco convened for a vintage banquet at the Fairmont Peace Hotel.
It's pure indulgence: bread pudding made with white-chocolate chips and pecans, served with bourbon caramel sauce and topped with vanilla ice cream and white chocolate confetti. Sure you won't be able to see your belt next week, but it is still the season to be jolly, and you can always hit the gym for a post-holidays deal. The white chocolate bread pudding, priced at 125 yuan ($19) plus 15 percent service charge, is on the seasonal menu now at Morton's of Chicago steakhouses around China.
The area around Beijing's Houhai Lake, which is known for bars, ice skating and traditional hutongs, is cold and quiet on this late winter afternoon. A nearby second-floor bar, East Shore Live Jazz Cafe, by contrast, is full of excitement.
When British singer-songwriter Shaun Gibson came to China for the first time in 2014, like many foreigners, he was drawn to anything new. One thing in particular attracted him most: Little Apple, a catchy song, which has dance beats and repetitive lyrics.
Singer Natalie Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat "King" Cole who overcame substance abuse to find stardom in her own right, has died, her family said Friday. She was 65.
When it comes to Christmas, I always thought I would be a Grinch. I hate to prepare presents and I don't love getting one, either. Ever since I went through the grinding mill of business school in the United States, I'm convinced that the holiday is designed to ramp up sales of unnecessary and overstocked merchandise.
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