Qian Bingjie's dream of a white wedding came true - for her client, that is. The 27-year-old points out the color means purity in the West but has an ominous meaning in China, where it's associated with such events as funerals, and red is preferred for such happy occasions as weddings.
It was "unconventional" to have romantic relationships when Hu Yue was in university in the 1980s. "There was no education about relationships," says the head of the psychological counseling center at Dalian University of Technology in Northeast China's Liaoning province.
More than 120 students from 23 top universities around the world gathered at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance for a simulated business competition themed "artificial intelligence plus capital markets" between Jan 20 and 22.
CHICAGO - Students' comprehension of words in a foreign language improves if teachers pair each word with a gesture, even if the gesture is arbitrary and does not represent a word's actual meaning, according to research released by the University of Illinois.
Chinese communities around the world welcomed the Year of the Pig on Feb 5, ushering in Lunar New Year with prayers, family feasts and shopping sprees.
Snow is front-page news in Sichuan's provincial capital, Chengdu, which rarely experiences flurries. So, locals were overjoyed when snowflakes appeared in the cityscape in late December. They snapped photos and posted them on social media.
When I saw Wang Le take his time, looking at his mobile phone and drinking coffee at a waiting area of the Beijing West Railway Station in early February, my mind couldn't help but slip back to roughly a decade ago.
Deng Xia, a fan of Huagu ("flowery drum") Opera, a local art form of Yueyang in Central China's Hunan province, barely misses such shows at the One Yuan Theater.
On July 10, 2017, around 300 locals gathered at Medellin Public Library, the venue for the Medellin International Festival of Poetry in Colombia, to listen to recitations by many poets.
Visitors packed the narrow, cobblestone lanes of ancient Heping town in early February.
Nobody likes to think of the worst happening on their holiday - getting sick, bad weather, accidents or robberies. But thanks to potentially eye-watering medical bills, suitcases packed with ever-more expensive gadgets, and a boom in the number of seniors jetting away, Chinese tourists are protecting themselves with more travel insurance than ever before.
China's booming tourism industry with its legions of tailored and themed tours, is driving rampant demand for professional tour guides around the world, especially those with creativity, comprehensive knowledge of visit-worthy places and good interpersonal and language skills.
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