Fan Jingyu, a junior student at Xi'an International Studies University in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, married her boyfriend in 2013. Just eight years earlier, it would have been impossible for the two undergraduates to wed.
Fan Jingyu, a 24-year-old who married in 2013 when she was a junior student at university, talks about her married life:
On the walls of a former factory building in the shadow of the medieval walls of the Chinese city of Pingyao, a fading slogan extols the proletarian virtues of hard work, efficiency and safety first.
You will find them in Britain, you will find them on the continent, and of course you will find them on the other side of the planet.
Li Duoli waited more than six decades to pose a question to a girl he had known, and secretly adored, as a lovelorn adolescent in the former Soviet Union.
Twenty-seven-year-old Methody Owaki beat 15 contestants to emerge as overall winner of the 2015 Chinese Bridge Sino African Friendship Knowledge competition held at the University of Nairobi on Oct 14. The competition evaluates the language abilities of Mandarin students at higher learning institutions.
Being dead renders one immune to most forms of social pressure, but it would seem the desire of a few Chinese to see single people wed transcends even the mortal coil.
When Yu Xin's epicurean friend told her about a service through which users can essentially invite themselves to private dinners in other people's homes, the urge to give it a try was overwhelming.
Gone are the days when the only solution if you wanted anything like a replacement for your mother's irreplaceable cooking was a top-class restaurant. These days, thanks to technology, the finest home-cooked meal can be placed on your table, and if you are a half-decent cook you can place the same on someone else's table.
While Kenyan authorities plan to start introducing optional Chinese classes in the nation's schools in 2017, a few private schools are using volunteer teachers to give young pupils a taste of the language and the Asian nation's culture.
As migrants from war-torn Syria continue to flood into the European Union, two Belgian academics have urged the United States to do more to help solve the crisis.
When The Heaven & Earth Totem/China Beat concert opens on Oct 19 in Beijing's popular bar area of Sanlitun, the audience may experience something more like a shamanic ritual.
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