Dekyi Yangzom patiently took the pulse of a middle-age man with indigestion and offered to help ease his discomfort with traditional Tibetan medicine.
Since late April, Qin Li has been busy putting baby tussahs - an Asian silkworm - in oak trees, scaring away magpies and conducting biological research.
The construction of a museum on a cultural heritage site with more than 3,500 years of history, often referred to as "the earliest China", began on Sunday in the city of Luoyang in central Henan province.
The acclaimed Polish theater director Krystian Lupa will bring to life a work by the late Chinese writer Shi Tiesheng.
Ethnic Jino areas that exist in modernization's limbo offer authentic slices of traditional life-but perhaps not for long.
Luxury goods purveyors turn to young celebrities to give their advertising pulling power.
A three-month celebration of contemporary theater has just begun at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing。
When Zhou Bichang became the first runner-up in the Super Girl Competition, a Chinese version of American Idol for female contestants, broadcast by Hunan Satellite Television in 2005, she impressed audiences with her tomboy image and her assured and expressive singing, especially her distinctive interpretation of R&B songs.
The Beijing Dance Festival which aims to highlight contemporary dance will kick off on July 18 and run till the end of the month. In the first week, 16 professional dancer-choreographers from 14 countries, including the United States, Germany, Finland and India, will give master classes and workshops at the Beijing Institute of Performing Arts, and in the second week, audiences will get to enjoy performances at Tianqiao Performing Arts in Beijing.
Retirement for most senior citizens in China involves playing mahjong, taking care of their grandchildren and just shooting the breeze with peers at the neighborhood park.
Having young models front luxury brand campaigns seems to have become the passe thing to do these days, with a growing number of older personalities, some of whom can even be considered geriatric, claiming the spotlight.
Ever since the first Chinese immigrants arrived in Cuba 170 years ago, the process of cultural exchange has never stopped.