It's easy to imagine some graybeard long ago weighing in on how this new generation, with all its fancy wheels, missed out on the benefits of dragging stuff from place to place.
"At times a political and social activist ... a feminist icon, a producer ... but above all an extraordinarily successful and talented actress, Jane Fonda is one of the great protagonists of contemporary international cinema."
Publishers at the 24th Beijing International Book Fair say cooperation and integration are the two words which describe the event that wrapped up on Aug 27.
A selection of some new Chinese titles that have, or will be, released in foreign versions.
Selected works of the late Chinese photographer Ren Hang and a rare juxtaposition of four influential Chinese private collections of photography will highlight Photofairs' fourth edition in Shanghai this weekend.
Yu Qiping attributed his meticulous approach to art to his Virgo sign of the zodiac and B blood type.
More than 30 Chinese artists, including renowned TV host Chen Duo and actor Han Tongsheng, will gather in Yichang city of Central China's Hubei province on Sept 12 to mark one of the country's key contributions to humanity - Chinese poetry.
As surprising as it may seem, Hong Kong and the province of Shaanxi, 1,500 kilometers to the northwest, have a common heritage: the two places were at the crossroads of international exchanges, cultural and commercial.
One afternoon in 2004, Chinese writer Jia Pingwa received his primary school classmate Liu Shuzhen at his home in Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province. Liu, a farmer from a poor village in Shaanxi, had tried to visit Jia before, but Jia was out then.
You said in a previous interview that in principle you are a countryman, a ghost from the countryside that wails in the city. Why?
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