Chef Wang Yong feels blessed by geography. "Hangzhou is basically a rich bowl of produce," he says, smiling as he describes the seafood, the freshwater fish and crabs, and the seasonal vegetables readily available here.
Gaoyin Jie is reputed to be Hangzhou's most popular restaurant street. The long and brightly lit stretch of restaurants beckons to visitors like a gaudy line of casinos, offering local favorite dishes like Dongpo pork, named for a Song Dynasty (960-1279) poet, and a dozen dishes featuring tender bamboo shoots. Jiaohuaji, chicken wrapped in lotus leaves and baked in clay, is another must-try - it's popularly known as "beggar's chicken", though the taste borders on princely.
As the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival approaches - this year celebrated on Sept 15 - mooncakes are turning up all over China, from very traditional teashops to Starbucks counters.
For Jeanne Riether, volunteer work has been a focus of her life no matter what part of the world she's found herself in over the past few decades.
Amitav Ghosh spent a part of August in China's south and east familiar to some of the characters of his Ibis trilogy. But unlike the greedy opium traders of his novels, he was there for a different purpose - giving talks at bookshops, meeting local writers over tea, signing copies of his books and taking photos with fans at a fair.
For nearly 20 minutes, novelist Liu Zhenyun dwells on all the marital scandals in Chinese history at a recent Beijing event.
Imagine, you - wearing VR glasses - are immersed in a scene where you are being chased by dinosaurs and the earth under your feet is shaking.
The popular online novel Age of Legends is set to be developed as a franchise, Xu Fan reports.
Warren Beatty is standing outside an early screening of his new film, Rules Don't Apply - definitely not a Howard Hughes biopic, he wants to make clear - discussing his connection to the famously reclusive industrialist and movie mogul.
What's a better bet than a Hollywood weepie based on a best-selling book? When the stars fall in love in real life while filming it.
Last week, Steve Potash, president and CEO of US-based e-book publisher OverDrive, was thrilled to discover that a South Korean publisher had managed to link virtual-reality technology to e-books.
A 5-year-old Chinese boy was quietly reading a book written in Czech with his mother sitting beside him.
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