Dressed in a tuxedo, actor Zhao Lixin, with his signature black curly hair, steps onto a stage on the set of the popular TV show, The Wonderful Read, in Shunyi district, Beijing.
China's national spirit has become a focus of publishing recently.
In early January, when the first temporary Sinan Bookshop - a literary "pop-up" performance venue that ran for 60 days starting on Nov 6, 2017 - shut up shop, many visitors hoped that the cozy wooden structure would become a permanent fixture.
When Natalia de la Ossa from the London Review Bookshop arrived in Chengdu for the International Bookstore Forum in mid-September, it seemed natural for her to offer local readers their selection of the best English-language titles around after the bookshop launched its section at the Sinan Bookshop in Shanghai in April.
Do you believe in the magic of stories? Du Shuang, volunteer-turned-chairwoman of the charity Growing Home, has used her five years of experience to answer this question with a forceful, "yes".
PARIS - Only one in 20 children in the United States meets recommended health guidelines on sleep, exercise and screen time, and nearly a third are outside of the advised levels for all three, according to a study published recently.
BEIJING - China has specified the definition and diagnosis standard for internet addiction in its latest adolescent-health-education guideline.
Three-year-old Cheng Zexuan dressed like a clown and sitting on a pony parades together with seven other kids in the center of the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest.
NEW YORK - An exhibition featuring Chinese typewriters and word processors is currently under way in New York, offering unprecedented insight into the still-evolving history of one of the world's oldest living languages.
Hopefully, it will snow a lot this winter and mountain resorts will not have to spend so much money making artificial snow. But whether you ride on the sprayed stuff or the much better natural fluff, you need to be in shape to ski or snowboard down the mountains without gasping for breath or stopping to let your burning thigh muscles recover.
On a recent dull, drizzly morning, several trucks filled with vegetables - including pumpkins, white gourds, cabbages and garlic - parked in a small square in Kapu town in Guizhou's Pingtang county, waiting to be unloaded by dozens of villagers in plastic raincoats.
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