The undoubted star of the 29th National Book Expo, which was held in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, from July 27 to Tuesday, was writer Jia Pingwa.
During the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), several royal concubines resided at the Palace of Prolonging Happiness, or Yanxi Gong, in the eastern wing of the inner court of Beijing's Forbidden City - or Palace Museum, as it's known today.
When champagne house Ruinart gave Sao Paulo-born artist Vik Muniz carte blanche to conjure his own creative vision of the venerable maison of bubbles, Muniz went straight to its foundations: the earth, the vineyards and the roots of the vines themselves - from which Frederic Panaiotis, Ruinart's cellar master, also takes inspiration for his craft. "I take it as a great positive that you can find this project a little bit edgy," says Ruinart's president, Frederic Dufour. "One of the objects was to bring some modernity to the brand."
If you're celebrating this month, Hong Kong-style, look no further than Dragon Noodles Academy in Central, which has created innovative new dishes and two new cocktails to up its seasonal offerings.
Ren Huaican now looks to tea from Yunnan after the green leaves worked magic for him. Ren was suffering mass mouth ulcers when he visited the Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er city back in the spring of 2006. "I had trouble eating," he says.
There's a golden yellow hue over a paddy field at Jianglong village, Dongxing city in the southern Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in July.
In 1997, 18-year-old Huang Ying watched the classic play Antique directed by Lin Zhaohua, a renowned Chinese director of Beijing People's Art Theatre, performed by star actors, including Pu Cunxin and Liang Guanhua.
The theater adaptation of the classic play The Lady from the Sea by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1888, which is co-produced by Norway's Kilden Theater and Chinese dancer-choreographer Wang Yabin, premiered in the playwright's hometown, Fjaereheia, Norway, on July 10. It was staged 10 times at the outdoor venue.
There is the sea, vast and endless. And there is a group of people who dream of the sky. They work and live in the ocean all the year round where the ship is virtually their home. They are "farsighted people" who are engaged in the task of monitoring and controlling spacecraft.
Xu Keliang is a man of medium height and tanned skin and wears glasses like many others in China. His work as a leading designer of the country's most complex high-speed corridor distinguishes him.
The sixth month in the Chinese lunar calendar, usually August, is the best time to eat a particular type of hairy crab famed for its tasty roe - earning it the nickname of liuyuehuang, or "sixth-month roe".
Take a lotus-leaf-like pancake, smear it with some special fermented flour sauce, place slivers of roast duck, cucumber and shallots on it and roll it up. It's the traditional way of eating a Peking roast duck.
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