Rui Chenggang interviews world leaders for State broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) but made headlines himself when he campaigned to get US-based coffee chain Starbucks evicted from the Forbidden City.
China's "little emperors" are used to being the center of attention.
It is known for having the most number of people, but not many are aware that China is also facing its first peak in a graying population.
Grassroots lawmaker Wu Qing solves problems few others can - by reaching to officials through their wives.
Lawyer Zhou Dan lives with his partner, plays an active role in gay events and speaks outright for gay rights in public.
Seven years ago, I came as a wide-eyed, fresh university graduate to the bright lights of Shanghai on a one-way ticket.
Fang Min vividly remembers her first heroin hit provided by friends in her home region of Guizhou province when she was 20, pretty and rich.
China shares with other countries the challenges that illicit drugs pose to governments and people. However, the problems related to illicit drug production, trafficking and abuse are relatively new compared to other countries.
Li Jie swore she would never date another foreigner, after her Canadian boyfriend ended their relationship because of his mother's scorn.
If we date or marry someone from our neighborhood we will likely have a great deal in common - shared ideas and feelings about many things in life, from how relationships are supposed to work, to what is humorous, and how to raise children or even how to clean a kitchen (the way my mother did, of course!).
Liu Dalin, the founder of China's first sex museum, is not proud of helping send his former colleagues to hard labor for their extra-marital flings, but during the height of the "cultural revolution" (1966-76) this kind of sentencing was fairly standard.
China has undergone not one, but a series of sexual revolutions, radically transforming Chinese sexual culture, marriage and love.
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