In a hutong area of Liulichang in the south of Beijing, the smell of ink dominates thanks to the stationery stores and shops selling traditional Chinese paintings and calligraphy.
With great attention, Shu Ji, 83, observes a life-size wax statue of Peking Opera guru Mei Lanfang (1894-1961). The figure is clad in a blue satin changpao, or traditional Chinese long gown for men, and a black satin magua, a riding jacket. It has a Chinese folding fan in its right hand while the left hand is behind its back.
When the sun was barely over the horizon on May 6, a crowd had already gathered outside the gate of the Red Sandalwood Museum on Beijing's east side.
Antique collector and dealer William Chak has a hectic schedule of traveling between Hong Kong, where he lives, and the mainland that connects him with a growing base of buyers.
The official list of ancient Chinese books was recently expanded.
How to serve people better is a central message of the China pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which opened to the public on Saturday.
It's evening at the 798 Art Zone in Beijing. Singer-songwriter Dou Jingtong emerges from a coffee shop next to a live-house venue, where she has just performed.
From young women in their 20s to grandmas in their 80s, thousands of yoga lovers from across China went to Kunming in Yunnan province on May 19 for the China India Yoga Festival, paying thousands of yuan to learn from 18 Indian yoga gurus at a four-day course.
The other morning I was driving to work when I saw a car accident. A motorcycle and a taxi had collided and the driver was giving first aid to the rider, a deliveryman, who seemed to be unconscious.
I remember the day I first swore in front of my mother. I can't have been older than 8, and she stood in the kitchen when I shouted, "What's for f-ing dinner?" My legs were stinging when I went to bed that night, and I certainly didn't get any dinner.
When Abbas Kdaimy made his first trip to China, his knowledge of the country was limited to what he had read in schoolbooks.
Does one have to get married to science first to become an established scientist?
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