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New festival on nature films

[2016-12-15 07:28]

When Huang Zizhen saw a Global Forest Watch screenshot featuring the planet's forest cover, she felt sad that China's tree density appeared to be less than some of its neighboring countries.

Hip-hop star blazes fresh trail

[2016-12-15 07:28]

In the summer, when rapper Vinida made her debut on Sing! China, a popular variety show aired by Zhejiang Satellite TV, the 22-year-old became a star among the country's emerging singers.

Monkey king gets moving on paper

[2016-12-14 07:38]

A work that embodies the spirit of craftsmanship, Havoc in Heaven is the first large pop-up book that has the much-loved Monkey King story from an ancient Chinese classic going 3-D on paper.

Eat and exercise your way to a long, healthy life

[2016-12-14 07:38]

When Preston Estep walked into a meeting room at Tsinghua University on a recent sunny afternoon, he looked lively despite his busy travel schedule in China. Estep is the director of gerontology of Harvard's Personal Genome Project, a study being conducted by the medical school of the university.

A place with a punch

[2016-12-14 07:38]

People are punching the air.

Dianchi Lake shows blue is the new green

[2016-12-14 07:38]

Seagull swarms. Fantastic flowers. Wondrous wetlands.

'Silent' stargazing is out of this world

[2016-12-14 07:38]

Welcome, earthlings! To Guizhou province's Pingtang county, that is.

Looking at change

[2016-12-14 07:38]

Ruchir Sharma insists he likes to write for the intelligent, informed reader who wants to know how the real world works.

Few know the Beatles as well as Mark Lewisohn

[2016-12-14 07:38]

No matter how much you think you know about the Beatles, Mark Lewisohn probably knows more.

US writer's book on Beijing out in Chinese seven decades later

[2016-12-14 07:38]

Marian Cannon Schlesinger, 104, can still recall what Beijing was like in the 1930s, when she visited China to see her sister, Wilma Cannon Fairbank, and brother-in-law, John King Fairbank.

Dynasties' delights on display

[2016-12-13 07:40]

Art auctions so far this year have generated several high prices for artworks from the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) dynasties, including Yuan official-painter Ren Renfa's color work Five Drunken Kings on Horses that grossed 303.6 million yuan ($44 million) on Dec 4.

Bai creates masterpieces inspired by trivial, everyday events

[2016-12-13 07:40]

Despite the Italian opera and the sound of water boiling in a teapot in the background, ceramic artist Bai Ming has an aura of quietness as he sits in his Beijing studio in front of a tea set. He's surrounded by his porcelain works, which range from elegant and thin vases to small and exquisite teacups.

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