A peacock's tail is seemingly fastened to a wooden rack, its feathers forced into a constant fan. A crocodile is tied to a table, its jaw bundled shut with tape.
Over the past 30 years or so, China Central Television says its Spring Festival gala has drawn the most viewers of any show broadcast at home or abroad on Chinese New Year's Eve.
Long-term separation from family members has become a top reason for migrant workers to consider quitting their jobs, a survey shows. This poses many problems for companies in maintaining an efficient and stable workforce, it says.
Seeing his severely frostbitten son in hospital, Wang Jinsheng vowed to return to his hometown and care for him personally in the future.
The bird bomb detonates. Its payload - millions of yuan worth of pigeons - explodes out of the truck's door like shrapnel with wings. Win or lose the war they seemingly don't realize is before their beaks, they're instinctively flying home.
In his guide for the newly emerged middle-class Chinese male,《绅士生活》(New Gentleman), British writer Edward Burman reckons that drinking wine is an essential element in a modern gentleman's life.
Just about everyone enjoys a good drink with friends: the pleasant clinking of glasses, the camaraderie and celebration. But, before you know it you are squinting through one eye, drunk-texting and buying an over-priced round for anyone who wants one. Next thing you know you are dragging yourself from the darkened pits of despair; waking in the gutter at 6 am, your vomit-encrusted shirt stinking of smoke and stale booze as morning joggers sneer as you stagger towards where you think home is before slipping into a coma.
Run Run Shaw, media mogul and philanthropist, was arguably the greatest and longest-operating force in Chinese-language film and television.
Shaw and his empire
They don't play from the same score or the same instruments, or speak the same language, but - vive la difference - it looks like it will be a strong and fulfilling musical marriage.
Of the inward-looking sociological portraits of China that get unveiled to its mainstream audience, few are taken seriously. The West may often assume that these pictures must provide defining commentary on the hardships of life in a struggling country.
Before he emigrated to Australia in 2005, Yin Fagang was a migrant worker in Shenzhen, a coastal city in the south of China. The quality of his welding work was so high that some foreign colleagues urged him to emigrate to Australia, where there were opportunities aplenty.
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