Author and artist Feng Jicai has spent the past two decades investigating and trying to protect folk heritage, which is vanishing amid fast changes in Chinese society.
"Can a newspaper really be ironed, and what for?" asks Pei Yuchen, an office clerk at a state-owned enterprise, after reading about a school for butlers in Chengdu in the southwestern province of Sichuan.
When Kong Jialin, 26, graduated two years ago with a degree in fine art from Central Saint Martin's, the renowned college in London, she aspired to have her own design brand.
Leonardo DiCaprio's win at the 88th Academy Awards did not come as a surprise. It was the way Chinese film fans had been rooting for him that could be a revelation, especially to those in Hollywood.
Such is the poise of Eileen Chang's writing that it is easy to spend much of your time reading her, muttering to yourself: "She can't have been only 24 when she wrote this. She just can't."
I have now lived in China longer than it took to get my bachelor's degree. While no one is going to confuse me with any of my Chinese colleagues or friends, the experience has definitely made a difference in my daily routine and how I see the world. In my estimation, it has been a positive change.
Wendy Yu grew up with the life of a princess, but she has changed from crystal slippers to the designer shoes of a professional businesswoman running her own investment firm.
China's second-generation wealthy children are emerging into the spotlight, especially with the country's first wave of successful private firms reaching the succession stage.
Recent decades have seen more movies made outside China featuring kung fu, and now the martial art will connect China and Iran on the big screen.
A rare collection of Chinese porcelain, bought by a British farmer, is expected to sell for at least 20 million pounds ($27.8 million; 25.4 million euros) when it goes to auction in Hong Kong in April.
What's a better strategy? To follow your heart and quit a job that's not giving you satisfaction or to stick to it until you find the next, hopefully better, job?
A growing population is generally seen as essential for us to survive as a species, a concept deeply engrained in early human civilization.
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