It is extremely difficult to find an empty room at the Beijing offices of Toutiao.com, a mobile news application.
The rise of smartphones and 4G networks has triggered an increase in online news companies.
One Friday evening a couple of weeks ago I was sitting outside a Beijing grocery store enjoying a drink. I would usually sit there with my African friends, talking about our experiences in the Chinese capital or back home.
Kellen Parker and Steve Hansen started Phonemica, a website that collects and documents China's many dialects, in 2009.
For some people the words fasting and self-denial conjure up negative images, ones of pallid, listless bodies and of hard-to-bear sacrifice that are out of tune with the zeitgeist of the me generation.
We are in a bustling restaurant in downtown Beijing, or it could be any Chinese city, town or village, for that matter. This evening the din of chatter mixed with soft music wafts through the warm summer's air, and the preoccupation of almost everyone seems to be matters oral: Biting, chewing and swallowing copious amounts of all kinds of food delivered to their tables.
Chin Zhan, a student from Inner Mongolia autonomous region studying in Beijing, belongs to one of China's ethnic minorities.
Don't fight the law because the law will win. But, well, we do like to watch interesting criminals - your Walter Whites and your Dexter Morgans - get away with flouting the law.
Since the end of World War II, Germany and the rest of Europe have been tracking down, arresting and prosecuting Nazi war criminals.
US army veteran Sydney Greenberg slept with "a light in the hallway and a flashlight by his bed all the time", according to his son, Philip.
Learning grammar is important for picking up a new language, but it is important to remember that language and culture are inseparable, according to Zhao Xiaolin, director of the new Confucius Institute at Moi University in Eldoret, a principal city in western Kenya.
It often seems that modern art falls into self-satire, but it is a pleasant surprise to see artwork with craftsmanship that rivals the great masters of the past in care and precision. Zheng Chunhui's (郑春辉) terrific work in wood shows the realistic exactitude of a professional and the inspired flair of a dedicated artist.
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