The other month I hit a pretty big business goal and found myself joyfully walking to yoga in the late afternoon. I was humming a little, feeling light and happy and enjoying the unusually warm winter sunset. I was optimistic about life and what's next for me.
"I'm very grateful that I can have this blessing in my life. It is my greatest honor to create Cheung Kong, to create value for shareholders and to serve the society."
Xu Jiang, director of the China Academy of Art, rushed to Zhejiang's provincial capital Hangzhou, from Beijing on Thursday after the end of the first session of 13th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee.
With their paint brushes in hand for some 60 years, Zhao Wenliang, 81, and Yang Yushu, 74, have experienced the dramatic changes in social history and artistic discourse since the 1950s.
To the Chinese, food is medicine. Every mouthful is beneficial in some way, and there are strict rules as to when to eat, what to eat and how to eat.
I'm not normally one for early starts. But the breakfast in Yangzhou is something to wake up early for, I'm assured by my Chinese colleagues.
Chinese theater director Meng Jinghui has the habit of storing poems on his smartphone.
If visitors at oil painter Xie Nanxing's latest show Spices in Beijing are confused by the event's title, they are in the right place. This is because Xie's solo show at Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art through May 27 is, in his words, a kind of "personal travel diary" of visits to art museums in Europe.
At Richard Daniel Harris' apartment in West Seattle, the 96-year-old former pilot describes his joy at hearing about Japan's surrender in World War II while he was midair, at about 16,000 feet.
The upcoming edition of the biennial China Orchestra Festival is a special one because it marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up.
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