At 52, A Benzhi can still clearly recall images of his father getting up before sunrise to work on the farm and returning home after sunset every day over four decades ago.
Belle is singing of her mixed feelings for the Beast - in Fujian dialect for the first time.
Foreigners are beating Chinese at their own game - mahjong.
Not only is mahjong making waves overseas - a growing number of Westerners are playing the Chinese game on the seas.
A workshop in a Beijing hutong shows travelers and expats the basics
When I walked into the courtyard in Shique hutong last Sunday morning, there were already two tables of foreign players. But a table still needed the last one to start the game - it's a four-player game. Without any hesitation, I was in.
Immense brown spiders squat on orange cupcakes in a bakery window. Australian student Brian Wilson, 10, arrives at his international school with blood streaming out of a gash on his face. Skulls, some of them broken, leer menacingly from shop windows and billboard advertisements.
Modern Halloween is rooted in Christian and pagan festivals that were celebrated in Europe centuries ago.
There's a Chinese saying that goes: Grave robbers should place a candle in the tomb's southwest corner.
Don Stewart and his wife will be home with the lights on Halloween night, waiting for trick-or-treaters. But like a lot of folks who stock up on candy, they'll probably end up eating it themselves.
Singing star Taylor Swift savors words on paper and the 'amazing' chance to write more than songs, she tells The Associated Press in New York.
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