Hu Die (1908-89), hailed as China's Greta Garbo, was among China's top film stars in the 1920s and '30s because of her elegance and natural acting style. And she embodied a transformation in the mentality of Chinese women.
When Guo Jingyu traveled to the Saihanba National Forest Park for the first time, he was a teenager. And his only memory of the park was the vast grassland.
South African winemaker Justin Corrans embarked on a journey into the unknown to practice his craft in September 2015. He flew over half of the hemisphere to take part in a two-year winemaking challenge in a country he knew nothing about. His destination was the Helan Mountains' eastern foothills in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, which hosts some of the country's best-known wineries.
HONG KONG - It is one of Hong Kong's most treasured food traditions - the buying, giving and eating of mooncakes to mark Mid-Autumn Festival, which is celebrated by Chinese communities around the world next month.
A group of Swedish students came to the National Academy of Chinese Theater of Arts in Beijing to study Peking Opera in 1987.
Mushrooms, wastewater and sunlight. For Nanjing University professor Zhu Jia, these three items hold the key to producing clean and fresh water by harnessing the power of the sun.
Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo has been a longtime admirer of the late Japanese actor Ken Takakura. But Woo did not get a chance to work with Takakura, who died in 2014.
In Marvel comic books, Peter Parker is a New Yorker. But should the famed character, also known as Spider-Man, not have a New York accent? The answer is complicated.
The subway passenger hears his mobile phone go off. He then reaches into his shirt pocket for a pen, unrolling a small sheet from it to take his call.
One by one, the five dancers emerge from the shadow of a 20-meter-tall desk, toward the center of the stage.
It's a hot afternoon when Zhong Qilan walks out of his house sweating in the sun to check out his navel oranges that cover about 10 hectares of a mountainous area in Jiangxi province.
Bi Yalin, 22, stares at the screen of her mobile phone and stabs furiously at it with her fingers. She is completely engrossed in an online, multiplayer battle game.
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