A giant mosaic-like backdrop glitters behind a cast of DJs. Guests sport light summer outfits and body paint as they dance to music. A few short steps away, people enjoy beach volleyball, play on swings and sip beverages.
After a hit debut on London's West End this summer, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is in talks to move to New York's Broadway in 2018, producers say.
Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise - and more likely to see black snub-nosed monkeys in Yunnan province's Weixi county.
Museums. Tea gardens. Recreational-vehicle campsites.
Running a bookstore abroad isn't only about making profit, especially when the books you sell appear foreign to local readers.
In his latest novel, Moonglow, author and Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon aims for the moon and successfully touches down on the lunar surface after a journey that leaps across the decades, the story spanning South Philadelphia in the 1930s, Europe ravaged by World War II and the postwar America of the space program, before retirement to South Florida.
While Zhao Lihong is defined by his prose in China, the writer says poetry is what drives him.
For many Beijing commuters, "Jintai" means a busy subway station in the capital's eastern part at which they get off or transfer on their way to work.
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.
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