Most Tibetans regard high, snow-capped mountains as sacred and they have a long tradition of honoring them by making religious offerings or circling the base on foot.
A 13-year-old was caught red-handed stealing a few chocolate bars from a supermarket in Gansu province on Dec 29.
Only a few weeks after Dark Forest hit shelves in English, translated by Joel Martinsen, Liu Cixin became the first Chinese person to win the coveted Hugo Award for his Three-Body Problem, the first in the Three Body trilogy.
The Central Plains is where it all began. The mighty Yellow River flows through this ancient cradle of Chinese civilization, and its annual floods slowly created the fertile loess plateau ideal for the cultivation of wheat and millet.
For art lovers, the story is familiar: A master painter is found dead, with his paintbrush virtually in his hand. After all, to work until one's last breath is a natural choice for someone who has given one's life in the service of his muse.
Mei Renyi's career trajectory has taken him from language instruction and English literature to American studies and eventually to cross-cultural studies. The turning point came in 1982 when a Fulbright scholarship enabled him to go to the United States, "to study either American literature or American history". Mei took up the latter.
Financial incentives and online campaigns are helping to ease the stigma attached to sperm donation in China, offering hope to couples struggling to conceive.
When my American friends talk to me about Star Wars, it usually takes me a long time to explain why their favorite sci-fi franchise has not caught on in the Middle Kingdom the way it has in the rest of the world.
So many expressions in language describe love and relationships as eternal: until the seas run dry and the rocks crumble (海枯石烂 hǎikū shílàn), until heaven and Earth get old (地老天荒 dìlǎo tiānhuāng).
Based on what has been unearthed so far in the ongoing excavation of a 2,000-year-old tomb in southern China, archaeologists could be about to open the coffin of an emperor who enjoyed one of the shortest reigns in Chinese history.
A theme park and an archaeological museum are expected to break ground in 2016 at the site of the ongoing Marquis Haihun tomb excavation and research center, the top archaeologist of Jiangxi province said on Dec 29.
I'm a huge fan of ancient culture, so visiting places like the British Museum in London always leaves me with a sense of excitement.
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