Basketball is a game of net gains and on the court of life Luo Xiangjian continues to score slam dunks. Luo, 25, lost a leg when he was a child but he has established himself as a household name in the second season of the reality show, Dunk of China, which "tipped off" on Aug 25.
RIGA - China's achievements of the past few decades came from a huge and dedicated labor force as well as the strong character of the Chinese people, a renowned Latvian Sinologist said in a recent interview.
NANJING - A university in East China's Jiangsu province recently established the country's first "courier college" to boost China's fast-growing courier sector.
COPENHAGEN - A report recently published in Copenhagen has revealed that only a quarter of Danish school children aged 11 to 15 meet the recommended requirement of at least an hour of physical activity per day.
When visitors step into the Shenwumen (Gate of Divine Prowess) Gallery at Beijing's Palace Museum, it feels almost as if they are attending a lavish coronation ceremony put on for a Russian czar from centuries ago.
SAN FRANCISCO - The classical Chinese dance drama Butterfly Lovers is set for its debut at the Marion Oliver McCaw Hall in Seattle this week as part of an arts festival currently underway in the United States. The two-hour dance drama, also known as "Chinese Romeo and Juliet", is a romantic tragedy set in ancient China.
Top Chinese violinists, including Lyu Siqing and Liu Yunzhi, will gather in Beijing to give a concert commemorating the life of their late compatriot, Sheng Zhongguo, who died of a heart attack in Beijing on Sept 9, 2018, at the age of 77.
Nimesha Sarangi made her 40th trip to China in August. Working in outbound-tourism operations for Sri Lankan travel agency Jetwing Holidays means she has been dealing with the Chinese market since 2011.
A growing number of Chinese visitors are seeking authentic local experiences via online home-sharing listings.
When he started to learn Chinese as a mechanical-engineering student at the University of California-Berkeley 18 years ago, Adam Wright had little idea that the language would connect him to his future wife or help him land his current job.
At the opening of a Beijing exhibition dedicated to late print artist Wu Shi (1912-98) in 2011, noted author and scholar Shu Yi said Wu Shi's works show an admiration for Qi Baishi, the modern master of classic Chinese art. It was from Qi that Wu Shi inherited the core value of xieyi, a style of drawing the spirit of subjects and privileging the spontaneity of the lines.
When Yury Tavrovskiy was a student at St. Petersburg State University in the 1960s, he learned Chinese language and calligraphy, read poems from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and novels of essayist and translator Lu Xun (1881-1936), and also studied the oracle-bone inscriptions of ancient China.
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