You could be fooled into thinking you were looking at a plate of fresh fruit. A strawberry, apple, pear, persimmon and carambola, each one invites you to bite into their juicy flesh. However, all the fruits on this plate have one thing in common - they are not what they seem and they all share one ingredient: flour. They are called mianguo, or "flour-based fruits".
The cement road extends straight into the distance of rolling hills.
Only eight filmmakers have so far won the Palme d'Or twice, and Bille August is among them. It is the top award given at the annual Cannes Film Festival in France.
URUMQI - Nurman Guli wears sneakers most of the time - except when she is walking on a tightrope wearing high heels.
A collection of newly created handwritten lyrics and drawings of legendary musician Bob Dylan is on display in London ahead of an exhibition in Shanghai next year.
Walking down onto the stage through a thick cloud of smoke and loud music and to a wave of cheers from the appreciative audience, Jacky Cheung makes his grand entrance at a Hong Kong hotel ballroom.
Before the first season of the Nation's Greatest Treasures (previously called National Treasure) was aired last December, not many would have believed that cultural relics could create excitement on a TV variety show.
The Chinese box office fell to a decade low in earnings for a holiday season during this year's National Day holiday week.
LOS ANGELES - Sony's superhero film, Venom, dominated the North American box office with an estimated $80.03 million on its opening weekend, marking the biggest October opening ever.
"We'd rather eat without meat than live without bamboo," is how the poem by Su Dongpo - one of the most popular poets of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) - explains the Chinese affinity for bamboo.
A year ago, cars and bicycles were parked messily in the alley under numerous cable wires hanging in the air along Qinglong Hutong, but now everything is in order.
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