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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Zhang Xuewen, 28, a white-collar worker in Beijing, has been smoking for three years.
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.
The much talked about cut of the first Chinese empress' bust has not only not died down, it has also created a buzz abroad.
German writer David Wagner this month became the first foreign writer to win a cash prize from a Chinese literary award.
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).
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.
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.