A few months ago, I was talking to a former student about how she teaches poetry to college undergraduates. "Oh, I just ask them what the point of the poem is," she said, as if the answer would be the simplest, most obvious thing in the world, "and then I ask them how the poem makes that point."
Spring may as well be a character in this romantic comedy set in Italy and England.
"Nobody would call it unusual if the age difference was reversed. People find it difficult to accept something that is sincere and unique."
Art Beijing, the capital city's long-standing art fair, opened its preview day on Saturday, the hottest April day Beijing has experienced in 66 years.
Ten years ago, Beijing-based artist Tai Xiangzhou was pursuing a doctoral degree in painting at Tsinghua University. He visited the sixth-century Longxing Temple in Zhengding, Hebei province, with his friend Hang Kan, a professor and director of Peking University's School of Archaeology and Museology. There they saw a revolving wood repository that measures 2 meters in diameter.
You have to be brave or crazy to come to Shanghai, a city that is already packed with stores offering xiaolongbao and claims the soup dumpling as its own - and start selling your own version from another country.
Cinco de Mayo, or the fifth of May, celebrates the day Mexico drove out occupying French forces in 1862. The date is often confused with Mexico's independence day - that's actually Sept 16, which marks the beginning of the country's war of independence from Spain.
Hungry bulldozers have been chewing away at strips of small bars and eateries in many a Beijing hutong this spring. The latest casualty is Rager Pie, launched by US expat Wilson Hailey a few years back after he was challenged to make a pumpkin pie for a Thanksgiving party. Tiny Rager has developed a huge fan base for its irreverent humor and Pie in the Face Fridays as well as its appealing array of eats, from sweet pies like pecan and apple to savory gems like curry, chicken pot pie and "lamburger". Saturday will be the closing day: Last chance for pies, a "pie shake" (pick a pie to throw in a blender with ice cream) and Rager's signature nitro coffees.
There is a need to better protect Confucius' legacy, according to the latest report on the topic released by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.
ATHENS - Hundreds of dance lovers of all ages gathered in several main squares in Athens to celebrate International Dance Day this weekend, with a message against hunger and inequality.
Sassazov Ramazan runs a clinic in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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