"In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." So says Harry Lime in the film The Third Man. Alongside the famous cuckoo clock, he might easily have added the Swiss music box.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Allerd Stikker, head of a Dutch ship building company, was busy exporting armaments abroad.
Hundreds of residents attended a free eye clinic hosted by the Confucius Institute.
The crowd of about 3,000 people sat still, listening impatiently to the guest speaker explaining why the Chinese celebrate the New Year late in January or February.
China's legendary Shaolin Temple in Henan province is poised to build a complex in Australia that will include a temple, four-star hotel, kung fu academy and educational facilities.
When it comes to the art of conveying our discontent, we Chinese are learning. We had no idea our lives weren't perfect and now there's so much discontent we need to get it out of our system.
My toes were burning in pain. But I didn't dare to take off my socks to look. The sight of blisters or blackened nails - which surely was the case - could become the last straw to eliminate my already worn-out resolve to stay the course.
What is the Hong Kong 100 Ultra-Trail Race?
For anyone who loves to be near the water, Wuzhen in Zhejiang province is heaven on Earth.
The notion of a thunder god is a familiar figure in popular culture - actor Chris Hemsworth, People magazine's sexiest man alive of 2014, wielding the sacred hammer mjolnir to defend New York and London against alien invasions in recent Marvel blockbusters, comes to mind.
Isabella Greene, a US student in Beijing, regards Harney & Sons, a coffeehouse near Beijing Language and Culture University, as the definitive cure for homesickness.
For Mike Tsang, the London-born son of Mauritian immigrants, whose grandparents came from China, taking a journey to Meixian in South China's Guangdong province was a way to trace his long-winding and still-evolving family saga back to its origin.
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