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  • Learning how to flirt

    2015-01-16 07:10

    Hu Minting, 28, who works at Nurturing Relationships, a nongovernmental organization in South China's Guangdong province that educates youth with disabilities, remembers the first time she worked alongside Glenn Quint, a pioneer in sex education for the disabled.

  • A major gulf in care for disabled

    2015-01-16 07:10

    There is a massive disconnect between specialists in the fields of sexuality and disability in China, says Alessandra Aresu, director of the China division of Handicap International, an independent organization that works with local partners to help the disabled.

  • How Wang Shukun became a big bee

    2015-01-16 08:36

    When Wang Shukun was studying English at the Tianjin Foreign Studies University, he adopted Eric as his given foreign name, a practice common in China for students of foreign languages.

  • The top characters of 2014

    2015-01-16 07:10

    As the book is closed on 2014, the season for looking forward to the new year begins. But, to look back for a moment, which characters were the most definitive of 2014 in China?

  • No indoor nails make for fewer coffins

    2015-01-09 07:21

    Xu Guihua, the executive deputy director of the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, said she was very happy when the State Council published the draft of a national law to control tobacco use.

  • An independent image for women who smoke

    2015-01-09 07:21

    Zhang Xuewen, 28, a white-collar worker in Beijing, has been smoking for three years.

  • Sci-fi with socialist characteristics

    2015-01-09 07:21

    China has long worshipped science. But science fiction has been more slowly adopted. Fantasies of interplanetary travel go back millennia in China, but it was exposure to the outside world that drove Chinese sci-fi authors.

  • Squeezed out by censor

    2015-01-09 07:22

    The much talked about cut of the first Chinese empress' bust has not only not died down, it has also created a buzz abroad.

  • Tales of life

    2015-01-02 06:25

    German writer David Wagner this month became the first foreign writer to win a cash prize from a Chinese literary award.

  • All you can eat

    2015-01-02 06:25

    You probably do not recall chewing on a mouthful of vinegar - it is hardly a well-balanced meal and would be tough to swallow. But then again, so is watching a rival in love steal the object of your affections. No one wishes to wind up eating vinegar (吃醋 chī cù).

  • Tapping into old and new

    2014-12-19 09:11

    Cultural and creative products that draw inspiration from traditional Chinese culture and the latest technology were highlighted at the 9th Beijing International Culture & Creative Industry Expo.

  • Expert: Important to protect lacquer skills

    2014-12-19 09:11

    More than 350 representative pieces of Chinese carved lacquerware were exhibited in Beijing for the first time since they returned to the country after 42 years.

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  • Group a building block for Africa

    An unusually heavy downpour hit Durban for two days before the BRICS summit's debut on African soil, but interest for a better platform for emerging markets were still sparked at the summit.
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