Athletes push their limits in this week's selection of our favorite sports pics
Di An (pen name) says she was "surprised" to receive the People's Literature Award for her recently published book, Jingheng Street.
CHICAGO - When Ren Yi began teaching Chinese in the US city of Denver over 20 years ago, she never thought she would become a popular author of Chinese language textbooks.
"The Yueju Opera troupe is coming!" It is the big news of the day for the residents of Yangjia, East China's Zhejiang province. They can barely contain their excitement and keep announcing the news to everyone they meet. Since the village has constructed a cultural auditorium, operas, performances and movies have become the obvious delight of its residents.
Sichuan cold noodles with shredded chicken, beef in red-wine sauce, dongpo roast duck with lotus-leaflike pancakes and Sichuan-pepper lobster ... the small servings were devoured before all the guests could sample all of the dishes.
Ten coffee shops popped up under the 1,300-year-old Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an, before the new year came.
It may be easy for a novel to sell tens of thousands of copies in China, but it is unusual for a collection of essays by contemporary writers to achieve that scale.
The two authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child working together are masters at crafting Verses for the Dead, a story that goes beyond a simple mystery or thriller.
Beijing native Zhang Yang began to collect vintage tin toys in 1997 and now has a private gallery of up to 5,000 decades-old antique playthings.
A 4-meter-high sculpture of a bee was displayed at a promotional event in Beijing on Dec 14 for Bumblebee, a spinoff from the Transformers series to be released in China on Friday.
Nigerian Kunle Adeyemi says he doesn't aspire to create beautiful buildings but instead focuses on "tackling problems, providing solutions and harnessing opportunities".
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