Perhaps, Shenzhen in Guangdong province is the best reflection of Chinese urbanization in the past decades.
The global cruise company Carnival Corporation & plc, expects to jointly launch a domestically owned cruise brand in the Chinese market, in cooperation with Chinese corporations.
Turkey's beleaguered tourism sector aims to attract over 1 million Chinese this year to compensate for the dwindling foreign arrivals from Europe and Russia, tourism professionals say.
To many people's surprise, a book on anthropology by an Israeli historian captivated Chinese readers, as it did audiences all over the world.
Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, one of the founders of a popular theory called loop quantum gravity, reads mostly classic literature.
A Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) blue-and-white stem cup that once belonged to a British pharmacist will go under the hammer in Hong Kong on May 31. The proceeds of the sale will be used to build a British college museum in Staffordshire.
Artist Wang Yong has had a passion for calligraphy, Chinese painting and seal cutting since the age of 12. And his solo show in Taiyuan, in Shanxi province, offers a glimpse into the world of the versatile artist's understanding of traditional Chinese art.
The spring art sales ended with a bit of a whimper in New York on Thursday with Christie's' muted auction of impressionist and modern art.
China's largest hotpot restaurant chain recently announced it would update its main menu every three months starting from June, reflecting the fact that diners now have a much shorter attention span about new dishes, even though they are devoted to classics.
Making an omelet may not sound like a revolutionary idea. That basic egg dish, however, is at the heart of what celebrity chef Jamie Oliver calls Food Revolution Day, which he's hosting globally on Friday.
The monks of the religious order of Chartreuse, who have been distilling a fine green liqueur of the same name for a few centuries, might be horrified by the glass in front of me. It contains their beloved spirit, but untraditionally it shares the space with a goji-berry infused white spirit from Ningxia Hui autonomous region, a big splash of a splendid calvados, and some bitters to counter the sweetness of the other additions.
In 2007, the Japanese ceramic artist Kyosuke Hayashi brought his reproduction of rare chinaware to Beijing for an exhibition. His Chinese counterparts greatly admired the replica but were also a little bit embarrassed as no one in the country could re-create it.