The start of the Year of the Rabbit on Thursday is getting Western designers all excited about using the bunny theme.
Spring Festival habits are changing with the times, but core values stay the same.
More than 30 years after Roberta Lipson arrived in a city of somber colors and camels on main streets, she's still here in Beijing - and loving it.
The year is 1937 and washed-up American singer John Ramsey has just arrived for a one-month stint as a lounge singer in Beijing.
Covers of Brown Eyed Girl are, admittedly, not for everyone. Fret not, Beijing's lounge and bar scene is teeming with top shelf jazz and soul crooners backed by heady, talented bands.
Skiing only caught on for ordinary Chinese in the mid-1990s in the country's north and northeast, but has since blossomed into a pastime that can be practised nationwide.
When visitors wander along Harbin's bustling Central Avenue, they are treated to the sight of marvelous European architecture that bears the record of the city's thriving history.
The custom of tattooing faces among Derung women is fading as modernization washes over their lives. Cheng Anqi reports.
Our far-flung writers show how the New Year is celebrated in Australia, India, Malaysia, Australia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.
It's freezing outside. The roads are empty. Air and rail tickets are sold out. Your Chinese colleagues and friends have withdrawn into their shells to watch the CCTV gala and are snuggling up to their dear ones, or gone home to enjoy piping hot dumplings.
The nation's opening-up and rapid urbanization have not just enriched people's lives but also created many new professional paths.
Free admission to some of China's museums, introduced two years ago, is paying off.