Heidi Dugan spent much of her time, when she was growing up, daydreaming of becoming an actress and taking notes on how her idols like Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman regaled audiences. More than four decades on, Dugan, an Australian entrepreneur, is a success story of her own.
The signs are everywhere: Winter (Olympics) is coming.
In a world where it seems that everyone has a voice online, few people's voices can really be heard; In a world where, superficially at least, the internet has entitled people to better understand diversity, the gaps between generations, countries and opportunities remain, and in some cases, seem to be growing.
When Fuhai county in Altay prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, is blanketed by snow in the bone-chilling winter, the fish in the county's Ulungur Lake are, apparently, at their tastiest with their exceptionally delicate flesh.
China's groundbreaking double bass player Zheng Deren turned 100 years old this week, according to traditional Chinese custom which gives a year's age to a newborn. The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra hosted a concert on Wednesday to celebrate his storied life.
Participants from home and abroad called for broad consensus of sharing weal and woe among different countries and building a community with a shared future for mankind at an oriental civilization forum in Beijing on January 19.
Back in December 2020, when I last managed to get out of Beijing, I spent Christmas Day in Cizhong, a village on the Lancang River (the upper reaches of the Mekong) in a deep valley in Yunnan province. I was in search of a taste of the past; wine made from a grape varietal extinct in its native France. I not only enjoyed a bottle of the Hongxiao family's "rose honey" wine, which is produced from those rare grapes, I also sampled more sophisticated blends produced at the modern winery nearby.
HEFEI-Holding a plate of freshly made dried bean curd, Zhang Zhiju stood in front of a camera, introducing the local delicacy. The 28-year-old farmer now has a second identity as a vlogger.
A green horse head mask with a funny facial expression was a hit on Sina Weibo recently.
Under the Chinese conductor Xu Zhong, Suzhou Symphony Orchestra and Macao Orchestra performed together in a concert titled Classical meets Impressionism at the Grand Auditorium of the Macao Cultural Centre on Jan 15.
CHONGQING-A puff of freezing air burst out from a silver-colored streamlined tunnel spanning four meters, making a whizzing sweep over bifurcated, undulating fall lines on a miniature replica of skiing slopes.