The finest short stories leave much of their content unsaid; they are oblique and implicit, leaving the reader aghast - slightly straining for meaning - as if the stories themselves are somehow not quite finished, conclusions left undrawn.
Visitors to the Forbidden City can now get a glimpse of how the mothers of emperors lived. They can view luxuriously decorated bedrooms and a private worship hall among other treasures of the Palace Museum in Beijing.
Pomp, color and fanfare filled the air as members of Kenyatta University's Confucius Institute, together with invited guests, celebrated 2015 Confucius Day at the institution's main campus along the Thika Super Highway in Nairobi last month.
Zhang Zixuan has decided to paint herself out of the corner that society had painted her into. In that corner stand many of her peers, single women in their late 20s and early 30s anxious about being unable to marry before it is "too late".
In the summer of 1978, when Kathryn Stott, a student of classical piano at London's Royal College of Music, returned to her apartment after a holiday, she found a young Asian man practicing the cello inside the pad she shared with violinist Nigel Kennedy. The stranger's wife was there too.
Yang Buwei (杨步伟) was taught that proper ladies do not belong in the kitchen. She was born the ninth granddaughter in a respectable, traditional family in 1889 in Nanjing, and her purpose in life was to get married and be the mistress of her own household, engaged to her cousin before she was even born.
The ongoing sixth Beijing International Art Biennale at the National Art Museum of China focuses on the latest developments in the worlds of painting and sculpture, but it also includes other artistic forms, such as photography and video, to enhance the theme of "memory and dream".
In the modern age, if someone pushes the wrong button, the world could come to an end.
When the Hong Kong actor Chung Chun-to, known as Kenny Bee, 61, married his long-time partner Fan Jiang in Bali, Indonesia, last year, the all-white themed apparel and the sumptuous venue, filled with top Hong Kong celebrities, made it one of the most talked about weddings of 2014.
A gigantic, generously framed photo hanging on the wall may be the most important decoration you will see in the home of a Chinese newlywed. And if a Chinese person tells you he or she is about to marry, social etiquette will be satisfied if you instantly ask if you can see the wedding photos.
Saturday afternoons can at times be an unusual affair for Zhao Qian and her 4-year-old son. Instead of taking the boy to a park or an amusement center, the 31-year-old sometimes brings him along to the boxing studio that she frequents. At home, the child creates a makeshift ring using his toy cars and gets his mother to spar with him.
Keeping fit is the in thing in Shanghai now as the fitness industry booms in the city. About 2 million people attend gym sessions at nearly 1,000 facilities around the city. A recent report by Labor Daily said these figures have grown exponentially over the past few years.
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