Golden crab gravy oozes from the tops of buns stuffed with crab meat, while other dim sum treats are bursting with pork, soup or shocking green bits of a local plant called bur clover.
Three years ago, when Zhong Lifang was in New York, she went to watch an "immersive" theater production Sleep No More, which was adapted from William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Water engineer Ian Cluckie says that when he first visited China in 1989 he was surprised to find he was already famous.
Action star Donnie Yen placed his deadly hands and feet in cement at Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theatre on Wednesday, voicing hope that his career would inspire fellow Asians to take up acting.
In Japan's animation world Hayao Miyazaki is a master. His classics account for around half of Japan's top 10 highest-grossing hits, but his status is now being challenged by a rising star.
Independent drama Manchester by the Sea, about a working-class American family dealing with multiple tragedies, has become an early front-runner in Hollywood's awards season as the National Board of Review named it the best film of 2016 on Tuesday.
On a soundstage no bigger than a large bedroom a cameraman takes up various angles to film a helicopter that isn't there, landing on a field that isn't there either.
Since the central government announced the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, Liu Kuanren, head of the cultural department in Shaanxi's local government, has been thinking up ways to internationally promote the heritage of his province that is located in Northwest China. This is the home of the famous Terracotta Warriors.
When the Peking Opera Festival opened on Tuesday at the Darwin Entertainment Centre, audiences in Australia got the chance to see a troupe of nearly 70 Peking Opera actors and musicians from the Jingju Theater Company of Beijing, which is on tour through Dec 1.
In 1996, Li Yugang, the first person in his hometown, a remote village in Northeast China's Jilin province, to pass the national university entrance exam, had to drop out because his family could not afford college fees.
The Great Wall is great. It lives up to its namesake. The Forbidden City is foreboding - in a good way. And the Summer Palace draws crowds in all seasons - for many reasons.
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