While in his early 20s, Leon Vandermeersch learned Chinese at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilization in Paris, and became a student of Li Zhihua, the first linguist from China to have completely translated The Dream of the Red Chamber - a Qing-era novel and a hallmark of Chinese literature - into French.
Kishore Mahbubani believes the West is in denial about how the world is changing around it.
Many liken history to a river. When you are a drop of water in the river, you have no choice but to flow onward. Only when you observe it from above, can you recognize its changing course, He Fan says.
To the same degree that the compilation over just five years of the 11,095 volumes of the Great Canon of the Yongle Era and their ensuing transcription was a stupendous feat of research and craftsmanship, the loss of the great bulk of that work over several centuries is a thumping indictment of some of man's worst excesses, including greed and theft.
Previously the drummer of rock band Luksus, Danish designer Henrik Vibskov is committed to creating a fantasy world filled with outlandish, surrealistic elements.
When designer friends in Sichuan province meet 52-year-old Liu Weibing, they ask for a photo with his trophy awarded by the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
Growing winter tourism has given the homestay business a shot in the arm in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
More than four decades after the first Star Wars film was released, the science fiction series still has fans wanting more.
When he was 10 years old, Bulgarian-Russian singer Kristian Kostov remembers watching pop stars having fan meetings, which attracted crowds waiting for them and screaming their names.
In the summer of 2017, Zhou Yan, a rapper from Chongqing, won the first season of online reality show, The Rap of China, produced and broadcast by iQiyi, one of China's largest online streaming websites.
To draw attention to fur skiing, nine herders in the Altay Mountains stepped on fur skis in Baihaba village, Habahe county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region recently. And it took them 11 days to cross the Altay Mountains to arrive at the General Mountain Ski Resort.
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