When Wu Chong boarded a flight from Paris to Shanghai on Feb 4 she suddenly felt perfectly at home, surrounded by row after row of her compatriots. Yet during the eight-day trip to Sweden, Finland and the Czech Republic she had just completed, she had barely seen a Chinese soul, with the exception of a few small groups in Prague.
The attractive glossy photographs in the hallway leading to the Confucius Institute at the University of Nairobi provide a sneak preview of the strength of cultural ties between Kenya and China.
A Chinese television soap opera, A Beautiful Daughter-in-law, depicting young people's lives in the modern society, is resonating with African audiences.
Social revolution and bloodshed often go hand in hand, with some revolutions redder than others. As Chairman Mao said: "A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous.
For many cat lovers, the best thing about felines is their unpredictability; sometimes they act as though they worship their "owners", but often they behave as though they have been carved from an iceberg, implacable and devoid of compassion. That unpredictability raises the question of why humans tolerated such capricious behavior in the first place.
In 2004, cat bones were discovered alongside human remains in a 9,500-year-old grave in Cyprus. Thus far, it's the earliest evidence of a relationship between humans and felines, but it's obvious that the dead feline was feral.
While the scientific community is agog about the possibility of domesticating raccoons, it is been reported that the animals were being sold at a pet market in Shanghai last year.
Web editor Li Wending, 30, inadvertently found himself in the middle of a major international news story in October. He had shared on social media a clip from the US talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live, in which Kimmel led several children in a discussion about international politics. When asked how to tackle the US' $1.3 trillion debt to China, a boy said: "Kill everyone in China."
Each year has its keywords and phrases. In 2009, the global phrase was financial crisis; in 2010, a keyword in China was 涨 (zhǎng, to rise); in 2012, one hot term in China was Diaoyu Islands (whose Chinese ownership Japan disputes)... What are the words of 2013? The National Language Resource Monitoring and Research Center, Commercial Press, Chinese Central Television and Shandong Satellite TV announced the official Chinese words of last year.
Mia Li was stark naked the first time she tried her hand at stand-up comedy. The bar remained silent after she told her first joke. Soap has a tendency to do that.
A classroom is bursting with activity in an otherwise deserted university building on the edge of the Third Ring Road in Beijing on a Saturday afternoon.
It's a Saturday night at the Hot Cat Club, the place to be for Chinese-language comedy. On Wednesday's English-language nights, the expatriate crowd clutches beers and chats loudly.
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