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.
More than 30 photographers are spending three months in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to capture its natural and cultural landscapes.
It's a story almost too fantastical to be true: A flea market dealer finds a painting near a subway trash bin, submits it for laboratory analysis and emerges convinced he has a Modigliani on his hands. No one would believe it, given the modernist master is one of the most sought-after and forged artists around.
I was sitting in a Wanda Imax theater on the afternoon of June 8 when the opening logos for Warcraft rolled. It started with the so-called dragon logo, China's government seal for any movie - domestic or imported - for public theatrical screening.
Based on the first book of Liu Cixin's best-selling Three-Body trilogy, a stage drama, directed by Liu Fangqi, debuted in Shanghai on June 1 and recently wrapped up its first 12 performances.
Fan Jianchuan listens to his wife - at least when she asks him to not be made into a drum after he dies.
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