The age of micro blogs
2012-07-13 07:43:14
Micro-blogging culture in China has gone through many stages of evolution since the advent of Twitter in 2006.
Within these walls
2012-07-06 07:49:32
After living in a modern high-rise apartment in Beijing for several years, Yang Ningjia decided to give up that dream of most young Chinese urbanites.
Talking on Taobao
2012-07-06 07:49:32
Shopping on Taobao (the popular shopping site heralded as "China's eBay") is not quite as simple as asking "How much?" and promptly exchanging money for goods and services.
Looks that cast a spell
2012-06-29 07:39:06
For Natasha Richard, the models Emma Pei, Liu Wen and Du Juan are the epitome of Chinese feminine beauty.
Take the (crazy) microphone
2012-06-29 07:39:06
The outside temperature was -28 C but Jason Prater, a sales intern on business in Northeast China, was sweating bullets.
Strength in numbers
2012-06-22 15:51:37
Rosie Baldwin's favorite number is four. She was born in the fourth month of the year, and is also the fourth child of her family. But when Baldwin, a housewife from Ohio in the United States, arrived in Beijing this June, she was surprised that her lucky number was actually the bane of many Chinese people. That is because the number four in Chinese sounds like si, or death.
The Rule of Three
2012-06-22 15:51:37
'I did everything wrong," says Eric, a close friend. "I gan'ed all of my bei's, I let them buy me dinner, and I kept them out late into the night with my horrible singing. It wasn't until the next day that a third party told me the truth: my colleagues' invitation had merely been made out of politeness. The occasion was supposed to be private; but I barged in, eager to show off my drinking prowess. I've yet to be invited out with that group since."
Day of the dumpling
2012-06-15 08:47:29
Meet and eat the top contender at every dragon boat festival since ancient times.
Don't judge a 书 by its cover
2012-06-15 08:47:29
Though the character may look simple, this is one book you don't want to judge by its cover.
Looking sharp
2012-06-08 10:25:28
Olivia Garcia has tried restricting her diet, exercising and even turning to weight loss drugs, but nothing seemed to shake off those extra kilograms.
Hot Dates
2012-06-08 10:25:28
Known as red dates, or hongzao (红枣) in Chinese, the native Southeast Asian fruit has long been heralded as a "super food", making appearances on traditional Chinese medicine prescription pads and in local kitchens, where they are still used to decorate buns, porridge, soup or desert as a kind of spice. You can get them fresh during the autumn, when they are crisp and green as apples, or dried, when the fruit take on a deep red color and sweet, chewy texture. So how did red dates get their reputation as China's favorite cure-all fruit?
Strings of the heart
2012-06-01 07:55:46
A demure girl in traditional Chinese qipao dress lightly raises her right hand above the strings of the zither in front of her.