Born and raised in Hong Kong, Albert Tsui - a fourth-generation descendant of a mainland immigrant family - has recently published a book to offer mainland readers a glimpse of the real life and thoughts of a Hongkonger from a grassroots point of view.
More Chinese parents are planning trips to cater to kids, especially as the semester break begins. Yang Feiyue examines the trend.
The realities of China's theme parks may soon undergo a virtual transformation - in every sense.
More books from the country are arriving on shelves overseas, as the China Book International project launched a decade ago comes of age. Mei Jia reports.
Last fall Hogarth Press published the first in a series of novels by contemporary writers re-imagining Shakespeare's plays on the 400th anniversary of his death. So far we've had Jeanette Winterson's The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold and Howard Jacobson's Shylock Is My Name, an interpretation of The Merchant of Venice.
Steve Hely's plan is vague: Travel south and make lots of stops along the way until he reaches the end of the world. And so begins The Wonder Trail, Hely's account of everything from the history of the Panama Railway to the best sandwiches in South America.
A shot rings out in the yellow wheatfields trailing a group of crows in the sky, with winds blowing and the smell of straw floating in the air.
Recalling his first exhibition in China a year earlier, US artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) said in a New York Times interview in 1986 that people from the National Art Museum of China - where his show was to open - were so excited at his idea that they kept providing him more exhibition space.
There is plenty of red meat on offer, including a wasabi-edged beef tenderloin with yuzu miso. Omega-3 rich salmon appears in entrees and salad selections.
In 2008, Australia's Jeremy Oliver became the first Western wine critic to create a book especially for the Chinese audience with the publication of Enjoy Wine with Jeremy in Mandarin. Besides radio and television appearances, he is best-known for The Australian Wine Annual, now in its 18th year and produced in Chinese since 2012. Oliver was recently in China for the release of the current edition and to host several wine tastings. He chatted with China Daily's Mike Peters about the wine market in China today.
If you think French toast sounds like a pretty ordinary dish, you obviously never eat breakfast with chef Christopher Pitts at Shanghai's Table No 1. His version (58 yuan, or $8.8, at the weekend brunch) is dusted with the usual powdered sugar and gleams with warm and spicy housemade orange marmalade. For an extra 30 yuan, he'll make your order mega French with a foie gras upgrade, giving a savory edge to the sweet treat.
Cui Xiuwen was playing hopscotch as a child in one of her dreams. She also saw the many phases of her life - evolving from a newborn to a little girl and then an artist.
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