When scriptwriter Liu Hua visited a remote railway station to collect inspirational material for the TV series Zhu Zhan (Stationed), he was unexpectedly struck by the profound quietness.
In the central area of Shanghai along the tree-lined Yongjia Road of Xuhui district sits the gelato shop Amuni Gelato, providing Italian-style ice cream.
In the bustling free trade zone of Shanghai's Lin-gang Special Area, Shamiso Fungura, a 28-year-old entrepreneur from Zimbabwe, is living her childhood dream.
Lao guo is a feast that comes from famine. It's a contemporary culinary celebration that hails from deprivation over four centuries ago.
You can spend a billion years in a day at Guizhou Geological Museum. But actually, a few hours are more than enough to experience eons of Earth's history.
Monks and monkeys dwell in temples and treetops. Clouded leopards creep through actual clouds that coil like bracelets around two giant stone "hands" pressed together in prayer.
Downtown Guiyang, Guizhou, holds "roadside concerts" that thousands of people attend free of charge every New Year's Eve. Revelers rang in 2025 with singing, dancing, lights and fireworks.
There's a folk saying in multiethnic southwestern China that goes: "Costume, a great philosophy of life, is a dialogue between the heart and the outside world and the soul that's worn on the body."
Wintertime in Guizhou province is a time and place where people move to the silent "song of ice and fire".
Beijing Normal University's original musical Today and Me was staged at the Lao She Theater in Beijing from Jan 16 to 18, paying tribute to China's normal school pioneers around 100 years back.
From the Monkey King who rides the clouds to a woman runner glittered in the morning glory, the works of Li Xiangqun, a sculptor of repute, have evoked in the audience collective memories, feelings and anticipation.
It was popular during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) to paint and write on paper fans. Despite the difficulty, artists managed to reproduce landscapes and poems on the folds, lending the fans a sense of romanticism and magnificence.
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