He was once a drummer in a school band, but Zheng Lu has now installed the 12-meter-high "musical instrument" at a solo exhibition in Shanghai.
A famous TV ad for hamburgers once challenged viewers by asking: "Where's the beef?'
"Ninety-three! Fifty-four! Fifty-six!" Priscilla Yang shouts from behind the counter at Chinese Star, a popular family-owned fast-food restaurant on the University of Houston campus.
Kendra Schaefer, an expat and vegetarian living in Beijing, was once served a "vegetarian" soup with ham in it. The waitress thought the soup adhered to Schaefer's requests for food without meat because it didn't have the character "肉" in it.
Founded in London in 1965, Pizza Express was recently bought by a Chinese corportion, which has now given its franchises on the mainland a new name - an Italian one: Pizza Marzano. The chain was originally introduced in Shanghai as Pizza Marzano, and now all Chinese outlets bear that name with a logo that mimics that of Pizza Express, with both English and Chinese versions. The chain is marking the occasion with a new menu, which features an unexpectedly yummy char siu pizza made with honey-roasted pork, spring onions, bechamel sauce, black sesame and spring onion pesto on a crisp thin crust for 78 yuan ($11.30). If such Sino-Italian fusion really intrigues you, go half-and-half with the Peking duck topping on one side and pay 108 yuan.
For Baljinnyam, a man from the Mongolian ethnic group, rummaging through the world's bookshelves for the legends of his "emperor lord" is a pilgrimage.
It is one of the greatest and most visited art museums in the world, and the only one in an old railway station.
Long known for its porcelain ware produced in the kilns of the Song Dynasty (960-1279), Central China's Henan province is now set to hold a ceramics biennale.
Within half an hour on Nov 30, I went on a personal roller coaster between feeling mildly good about myself to feeling duped.
Last year, when Makina Eunice Agmes graduated in international law from university in Uganda, she realized she needed to learn more to get a satisfactory job in the field.
It was like time travel when we set foot at the Oriental Salt Lake Resort.
The beach town of Lahaina in western Maui was once the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom, a place where kings were born. It became a key port at the height of the 19th century whaling boom.
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