Frank Cai of Beijing sent his daughter to an elementary school in the US in 2005 while he was studying for a doctorate in American studies at the University of Kansas.
You do not need to look too closely to spot the treasure. Here there is a large porcelain flask painted with a glazed blue decoration of lotus flowers; over there is a crown made of leather and bamboo; and elsewhere you will find red lacquer furniture, hanging scroll paintings on silk, watery-green ceramics and blue-and-white porcelain works of art by the dozens.
African Safari, the first 3-D feature about the wild animal kingdom, hit the Chinese box office on Nov 7 to rave reviews from its audiences.
In Akwa, the commercial hub of Cameroon's commercial capital, Douala, there is a large building known as China Shopping City.
The mythical brilliance of the dragon continues to ignite the popular imagination, even in modern times: Last summer, a story about a man who claimed to have found a dragon in his backyard went viral.
Technology is a driving force in promoting the traditional Chinese game internationally. Foreigners are beating Chinese at their own game, and many Chinese are not particularly happy about it.
On a recent Sunday morning, people from around the world gather around two tables in a hutong.
Standing in the auditorium of the new African Village in Beijing, listening to professor Li Songshan delivering a speech in perfect Kiswahili, it's almost hard to believe the man at the microphone is Chinese and not African.
At a mere 200 meters straight down, the Chinese crew of three, Ye Cong, Liu Kaizhou and Yang Bo, enters the Twilight Zone, a land where the light of the sun begins to give way, continuing all the way down to 1,000 meters.
Need a human hamster wheel? A spaceflight? Breast implants? A fake boyfriend? An enchanted totem to engineer a breakup with a real significant other? To scream almost anything at someone on the phone?
The 5 Colours Foundation, founded in 2009 in Chengdu, Sichuan province, hosted the "Possibility: International Disabled Artists Exhibition" on Sept 18 to showcase the works of five artists with disabilities from the United States, France and Singapore.
French artists Monique Plumecoq and Andre Soler say their dreams came true when Chinese painter Zhou Chunya chose their works for his foundation's exhibit in Chengdu.