It began with Blade Runner. Sitting in a cinema in Rio's Copacabana Beach, 14-year-old me was as fascinated by the film's references to Japanese techno-prowess as I was by its vision of Los Angeles, 2019.
For 18 years after her retirement, Deng Xiaolan volunteered to teach music in a rural village in Hebei province.
URUMQI-Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has managed to save 6.82 million mu (454,667 hectares) of populus euphratica forest from degradation, thanks to a three-year restoration project.
The popularity of "micro vacations" has prompted tourism players to innovate in a bid to draw local travelers.
In March, China held its annual legislative meetings, dubbed the "two sessions", where lots of issues related to public wellbeing were raised and discussed.
Zhejiang Provincial Museum launched a virtual exhibition Beauties in Paintings which won wide acclaim and the museum recently opened an in-person show on the same theme.
URUMQI-For Belgian entrepreneur Decombel Danny Camiel, 59, Xinjiang is not only a second home but also a treasured place where he can build a successful business career.
With simple tools, Akihiro Nakamura can quickly climb to the top of a tree that is more than 30 meters from the ground.
ISTANBUL-Runway fashion shows have made a major comeback in Istanbul, Turkey's cultural and financial hub, after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wearing traditional dresses and using very basic props-bamboo clappers, a kind of traditional Chinese percussion instrument of wooden panels or boards that, as the name suggests, are clapped against each other, Liu Jiming and Wan Yifu have been making and sharing short videos of the art form on social media platforms since 2019.
ANKARA-Emin Yogurtcuoglu, a Turkish self-proclaimed "bird detective", is constantly seeking new bird species around the world, and he wants to make his next trip to China, land of many species and home to abundant wildlife.
When COVID-19 was contained in May 2020 throughout China and life was returning to something like normal, instant snail noodles began to raise their head.