KUNMING - Zhou Feng runs a walnut-processing factory in Southwest China's Yunnan province. The walnut milk from his factory is popular, but he has always been anxious to explore more processed-walnut products to take his business to the next level.
A new literary prize of 300,000 yuan ($47,700) has been set up to encourage talented Chinese writers under the age of 45 to become established and successful writers.
This is the best time for the development of the e-reading industry in China, says Liu Shu, vice-president of Kindle Content at Amazon China. "And in the recent years, the government has been encouraging people to read more. Also, members of the growing middle-class in China are more willing to read," she says.
Hollywood star Liam Neeson's popularity isn't falling with age. It is the opposite.
Xu Zheng has been missing from the big screen for nearly three years.
The recently released documentary feature Amazing China has earned more than 400 million yuan ($63.9 million) as of March 26.
After his arthouse hit I Am Not Madame Bovary took home the highest prize at the China Film Directors' Guild Awards last year, Feng Xiaogang has again become the favorite at this year's event.
CANBERRA - Hollywood actress Cate Blanchett is leading a campaign to protect Australia's film and television industry from proposed government budget cuts.
American novelist John Shors, 49, has seven novels under his belt, and all of them are set in Asia.
Sun Yukun finally put the lock back on the Pandora's box she had opened after an impulsive shopping spree, which landed her in debt and deprived her of financial freedom for more than six months.
Ready to share its own development opportunities with compatriots from Taiwan, the Chinese mainland has been attracting young people from Taiwan to come to study, work or launch a startup in cities far away from their hometowns.
When veteran director Chen Wei proposed to make a talent show called The Rap of China, he was repeatedly asked: "Is there rap in China?" But the veteran director, who is also the vice-president of iQiyi - one of the biggest online streaming platforms in China with nearly 51 million members - carried on undaunted.
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