Unusually heavy rains have reduced the mushroom harvest in Yunnan province creating a fungi rush as prices soar. Xu Junqian reports in Shanghai.
Herakleidon museum opposite the Acropolis hill offered this summer a look at Greek seafaring-from antiquity to modern times-showcasing through models of ships and nautical instruments Greeks' achievements in a field that is regarded as an integral part of their identity.
For people living in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, making carpets is regarded as a household task for women, because locals use different kinds of knitwear for home decoration.
The First Zhangjiakou Tourism Industry Development Conference, themed on innovating the tourism development model, was held on Aug 26 in Yu county, Zhangjiakou city, Hebei province.
Nobel Prize winner, Mo Yan, has announced his new work. The Chinese writer's opera drama Jin Yi, or colorful clothes and a group of poems Qi Xing Yao Wo or Seven Stars Shine on Me will be published in People's Literature magazine in 2017.
Over 140 items, including 83 antiques and about 60 replicas, are on exhibition in the Shanghai Lu Xun museum, showing the late literary master's friendship with over 100 foreigners.
A symposium on translating and publishing children’s literature abroad was held at the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) on Aug 24.
This summer's unusual rain pattern in Southwest China's Yunnan province has been bad news for mushroom gatherers.
As a teenager, Ke Da-wei was a big fan of pop music and whenever he bought a new CD he would avidly read the booklet inside the CD case.
When he was 15 years old, Wu Muye studied playing the piano at Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, the music school of the Paris Conservatory, from where he graduated in 2009.
Imagine you've chartered a private plane for a sightseeing trip across a vast, unexplored wilderness.
The award-winning musical, Sister Act, which is based on the 1992 comedy film of the same title starring Whoopi Goldberg, opened in Beijing on Aug 18 and will run till Sept 3.