"I'm from the northeast, too," Jesse Appell says in a thick dongbei accent, before swiftly adding for his audience's relish, "from the northeastern United States."
Old story gets new twist A unique take on a much-loved Chinese folk tale is vying for box-office honors, Xu Fan reports.
Ice shaped like blossoming lotus and cute hedgehogs are among the attractions that recently made a salt lake known as "China's Dead Sea" a hot spot in the biting winter in North China.
WAKISO, Uganda-While singing traditional Chinese folk songs and giving kung fu performances, Uganda's first batch of Chinese-language teachers celebrated their graduation in Wakiso on Dec 20.
Why would a Chinese nutrition professor start a roasted-chicken business with ambitions to turn it into a chain as popular as KFC?
Apart from book donations and volunteer teachers, Chinese college students now have a new way to support China's poorer regions-by gobbling their potatoes.
Immersed in virtual archaeological sites Students at Northwest University can now use VR to visit and explore ruins and tombs while still in classrooms, Lu Hongyan reports in Xi'an.
A charitable program is laying the foundation for arts education in Xiongan's rural areas, Liu Xiangrui reports.
NEW YORK-Joe Sinicki would have mistaken Carrie Feyerabend for a Chinese performer, had he not watched her presentation of the Peking Opera classic, The Heavenly Maid Scatters Blossoms, at a recent show at the State University of New York in Buffalo.
Smiling at danger China's finless porpoises face a fight for survival in and around the Yangtze River but researchers see signs of hope, Kelly Wang reports in Wuhan.
Renowned violinist Lyu Siqing gave a recital at Beijing Normal University on Sunday night.
The third China Internet Philanthropy Summit, which gathered executives from more than 100 leading charity organizations from around China, was held recently in Beijing.