It's easy to get a certain impression of Shanxi if you've never been there, as the province's reputation goes before it. And that reputation has, for a long time, been bad.
In front of the ancient ruins of the fort stood two gray monuments and a huge gate obscured by a heavy covering of dust and sand. An old man clutching a smoking pipe, which he puffed on at regular intervals, leant against one of the fort's walls, selling bags of apples to passers-by.
'This is my mother ... (and) this is the Las Vegas splash," David Hockney tells an excited crowd at the recent Frankfurt Book Fair while speaking about the subjects of his artworks as he turns the pages of a new book about him.
Maddie Dawson writes a charming story about family in her new novel, The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness. Readers are transported back and forth between a mother who gave up her baby for adoption and that daughter's eventual journey to know the story of her life.
Tang Dynasty (618-907) monk Xuanzang made overland trips to India along the ancient Silk Road in the 7th century to collect Buddhist sutras.
In 1369, a porcelain kiln was established in Jingdezhen, in Jiangxi province, to serve the imperial courts of the newly established Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), and thus began the city's story as a porcelain hub.
The distinctive tropical landscapes of Xishuangbanna, in southwestern Yunnan province, has been attracting established painters like Zhu Danian and Yao Zhonghua since the late 1950s. Many of them spend weeks sketching and painting at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, where a great variety of plants and birds inspire artists from across the country.
Many years ago, I made this chipotle sweet potato puree for my good friend, pie and cake expert Rose Levy Beranbaum. Since that day, we have each made it again and again as a great fall and winter side dish.
I've got my face stuck in a Mushroom Brown. It's a dark and rich fungal ale, one of eight seasonal beers now emerging from the fermentation tanks at Slow Boat Brewery's new flagship pub.
There was an exhibition hall devoted to tea, another to silk and an extensive international photo show.
The 34-year-old sculptor has produced copies of real-life situations, mostly from public spaces such as elevators, subway coaches or waiting halls of train stations.
Feng Lili, the widow of UK-born sculptor Anthony Stones who died earlier this year at the age of 82, recalls her husband once telling her that he would rather people remember the statues he made more than his own face.
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