The author is a columnist and culture critic with China Daily
The Internet is a mind-boggling platform when it comes to communication. Perfect strangers can meet there and conduct meaningful conversations, which may lead to special relationships and, in some cases, even marriage.
China's economy will soon overtake Germany's, and by 2040 it will trump the US and become the world's number one.
The word is in: China's 50 most beautiful women have more brains than bosom. And that is making a lot of netizens very unhappy.
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway has been open for a year now, but most passengers climbing up to the "Roof of the World" have opted to sidestep Xining, somewhat of a gateway to the plateau.
It is always interesting to watch foreign media react to phenomena in China of such complexity that they do not fit into clear-cut Western interpretations. The television reality show is a case in point.
On a recent day, when a reporter dropped in on an office in North China's Shanxi Province, he found a group of people playing cards. It was during office hours.
Should teenagers get up and boogie sometimes?
When you visit a Northeastern city like Shenyang or Changchun, you've got to catch a show of "er ren zhuan" (two-person act), a local form of standup comedy, singing and acrobatic stunts all rolled into one. It is becoming as de rigueur as a Broadway show is to a traveler to New York.
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