In loose jeans, armed with a gas mask and a black backpack, Ye Shu walks into the woods next to Jingmi Lu, a road beside the airport expressway in Beijing. He glances around making sure no one is watching before taking out spray cans from his bag. For graffiti artists like Ye, the woods, stretching across 2 kilometers, are a perfect playground.
You have no doubt heard it before: The oil that keeps the wheels of business in China turning is 关系 (guanxi), connections.
Many people have forgotten, or are even unaware, that 140,000 Chinese workers served on the Western Front during World War I. These workers' contributions as manual labor during the war were significant, scholars say.
Li Zhaoxing, the Chinese government envoy, attended various commemorative events in France on July 14 and 15, to mark one hundred years since the outbreak of World War I.
On World AIDS Day last year, the Shaanxi Provincial Communist Youth League organized volunteer activities to help raise awareness and prevention of the disease. The tradition on Dec 1 across the world included giving out free condoms to passers-by in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province.
The first ten minutes of Black Coal, Thin Ice convey a jumbled mix of juxtaposed images, including a dismembered hand traveling down a conveyer belt of coal, a gunfight, the messy divorce of protagonist police captain Zhang Zili, all split between dark, gloomy landscapes in an unknown northwestern Chinese city.
People are always impressed when Nicolas Santo hands out his business cards at networking events. They can't hide their surprise that the young Uruguayan is an international investment promotion consultant at the Foshan government's Bureau of Commerce.
China's national soccer team once again failed to qualify for the FIFA World Cup this summer. But fanatic Chinese fans who have stayed up all night eyes glued to star-studded stadia in Brazil have seen one sight that's very familiar.
It is often said that being a "real man" is a question of having moral fiber - you know, the difference between right and wrong and all that stuff. Mencius, that second most famous of Confucians, probably said it best:
When young Chinese space scientists began designing the country's first moon rover, Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, their first drawings could well have been taken from a textbook of elementary geometry.
For modern artists and critics who are looking for something appealing to a more universal audience, traditional Chinese painting, especially ink wash painting, has been a bit too self-entertaining, with few artists rising to the same international esteem of their counterparts in the West.
A gaggle of men form a circle, sweat on their brows as they wave hundred yuan bills in the air in a darkly lit room in Beijing. Sure, gambling is illegal in China, but that won't stop these enthusiasts.
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