I haven't been able to get my hands on a copy of Sara Bongiorni's A Year Without "Made in China", though I have been anxious to write something about the book since it was released in June.
I had an opportunity to take part in a television talk show on Sunday - the chief guest being a prominent banker in Asia. However, the show was not about economics and finance.
While shopping at a supermarket near home, I was surprised to find bottled water from as far away as Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
A young woman told a television reporter that she couldn't understand why her mother-in-law insisted on keeping a big pottery vat in the kitchen.
A student team at the University of London discovered that excellent health could be worth as much as a pay increase of 304,000 pounds ($600,077) a year. Although this finding on the value of happiness is a bit daunting to most Chinese, health has become one of the top concerns in the country, along with housing and children's education.
While this year's national college entrance examination starts today, the Ministry of Education is considering introducing a new set of scores as an "important reference" for college enrollment.
I stayed outside the operating room of a hospital in Beijing for five hours on Tuesday while the daughter of my close friend was undergoing open-heart surgery. Groups of five other families - some with as many as six or seven members - were also there, waiting for the outcome of their loved ones' surgery.
I discovered a stack of popular science magazines at the bottom of a bookshelf when my husband and I were about to move the shelf to another room. They dated back to the late 1970s.
Media from home and overseas have run countless reports about environmental pollution spreading from urban centers to rural areas in China.
Some tens of millions of people will set off in a few days for scenic areas in and out of the country as the labor holiday week begins on May 1.
Beijing School for the Blind, founded in 1874 in downtown Beijing by Scottish missionary William Hill Murray, was relocated to a more desolate suburban spot in Haidian District in 1921.
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