Focus
How apples paved the way to France, food and all that jazz
2014-05-30 07:45
A falling apple legendarily inspired Isaac Newton to become a great physicist, but another apple, a delicious one, opened Yi-ping Pong's 20-year love affair with France.
A new approach to folk
2014-05-30 07:45
As the man behind the hit songs performed by his singer wife Gong Linna, including Tan Te, or Perturbed, and Fa Hai You Don't Understand Love, German composer Robert Zollitsch is widely known in China for his pioneering Chinese folk songs.
Chengdu Special: Visa-free policy gives visitors a taste of Sichuan
2014-05-30 07:45
The China Sichuan Cuisine Cultural Museum has become a tourist hotspot following the start of Chengdu's 72-hour visa-free policy, according to a museum official.
Six years that shaped a master of arts
2014-05-23 07:44
Visitors to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford can now admire what is hailed as the biggest private collection of modern Chinese art in the West. The art historian Michael Sullivan spent a lifetime building the collection and bequeathed it to the museum when he died aged 96 last year.
Dream with European characteristics
2014-05-16 07:54
Martin Schulz, a candidate to become next president of the European Commission, says the relationship with China still offers "great untapped potential".
A seasoned perspective
2014-05-16 07:54
Many people aged 90 would be content to put their feet up, but Isabel Crook, just before she turned 98, published yet another book.
Candidate hopes for third time lucky
2014-05-09 08:09
Angelina Chan, a young Chinese-Belgian political aspirant, will soon enter the home stretch in another effort to win a seat in the parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region, one of the country's four regional parliaments.
Blurred line between fact and fiction
2014-05-09 08:09
Xing Danwen portrays drama, emotions and dreams, all through a camera. She mixes fact and fiction to reveal a larger reality. In China, she was one of the first artists to explore the boundaries of photography, transcending its limits.
Uncle Hanzi is quite a character
2014-05-02 07:50
Laughs with a Chinese twist
2014-04-25 07:32
Wearing a wig and a denim skirt, French stand-up comedian Patrick Vesselier opened his recent show in Paris by singing the song Je m'appelle Helene, a piece that is emblematic of French pop music to many Chinese.
Friends and enemies
2014-04-25 07:32
Long Fenggao is a 78-year-old retired policeman in the southern city of Guilin in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. However, his life story is far more dramatic than that of a typical policeman, reflecting the harrowing wartime experiences of millions of Chinese people of his generation.
A call for calm amid the acclaim
2014-04-18 07:58
Soon after Bi Feiyu's 2008 novel Three Sisters was published, when the Chinese author was hosting a book-reading session in London, a member of the audience stood up during the recitation.
Power of fiction
2014-04-18 07:58
When Helen Wan started writing a book more than a decade ago, she thought it would be a collection of short personal essays about her experiences in the workforce as a woman and an Asian-American.
Hard road to the top
2014-04-11 08:08
Ambitious young footballers from countries that are not major football powers can struggle to gain recognition from top European clubs. But it can be done. All it requires is for a coach at one of those clubs to spot talent and to have an open mind.
Dreams of flying are forever young
2014-04-11 08:08
We have just shaken hands, and at least one palm has been left smarting as Liu Yi bounds up a flight of stairs.
Zhang Wenhai's art of the possible
2014-04-04 08:02
Anyone stumbling upon the Churchill Studio in Brussels could be forgiven for thinking that when they step inside they will see wartime paintings in the colors of blood, toil, tears and sweat. The studio is, after all, in Winston Churchill Avenue.
Atrocities can never be forgotten: POW
2014-04-04 08:02
Many people have saluted a World War II veteran after he wrote to China's ambassador to the United Kingdom to reveal his harrowing experience at the hands of the Japanese military.
A first for the first lady
2014-03-28 08:44
The US first lady Michelle Obama has completed a seven-day visit to China, one in which the accent was on meeting young people, and in which she gained an insight into the country's historical heritage.
Encore for a teacher
2014-03-28 08:44
It's a Friday afternoon and Helen Boyle is waiting impatiently in a small office at a Beijing primary school for her team of volunteers.
E-paper
We will not give up search, Li vows
International hunt for missing airliner continues after fruitless six-day search
Challenging times forecast as growth falls
IMF: China has pivotal role in 2016 economy
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