Liu Yajia is a rare thing in Chinaa cheese connoisseur. She can reel off names, flavors and production processes of varieties of cheeses that few people have heard of.
It is hard to find a family brand with more than 100 years of history, and even harder to put that history into a four-hour exhibition.
From fashion to branded apartments, the Chinese appetite for luxury seems to have no limits.
Tokyo may be the style capital of Asia, but with South Korea and China snapping at its heels and Japan's most iconic brands rooted in Europe, the city is being urged to haul its fashion week into the big leagues.
'It is not a job. It's a passion, a real sickness!" It is the early hours of the morning and Giovanni Sacchetto is explaining why chilly autumn nights find him trailing by moonlight through the woods around Alba in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. Sacchetto, 64, and his beloved companion Dora, a sprightly Lagotto Romagnolo gundog, are on the hunt for white truffles, the hard-to-find fungi famed among foodies for their earthy scent, and their equally heady prices.
For five days in Hong Kong, they ate. And drank. And ate. And drank.
If you enjoy dining at fine Italian restaurants, chances are you will soon have a white-coated chef at your elbow, joyously shaving paper-thin slices of fresh white truffle on top of your favorite pasta.
When Richard Hart, an expert in healthcare management from the United States, is asked about his China connection, he starts from the beginning.
Suitcases, snow, a red sofa, wooden stairs and a raven come together in The Fugitive, a multimedia musical production. This is a world where the late Austrian composer Franz Schubert's famous piece Winter Journey - about a poet pining for his lost love in the cold and gradually dying - mixes with images based on German poet Wilhelm Mueller's words.
Back in the day, before cars could drive themselves and phones could send stickers and animations, a Japanese phone company released a set of 176 emojis.
A year ago, Zhang was considering quitting the entertainment industry after a string of failures.
Do you sometimes picture yourself swimming with whales or mingling with celebrities in a party setting?
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