Managers of international luxury hotels
Managers of international luxury hotels.
Amid warnings that child deaths from swine flu are spiking, toddler Bronwen English nervously clutched her teddy bear and waited to be inoculated against the H1N1 virus.
Hailed by Chairman Mao Zedong as "a great revolutionary", "the commander of China's cultural revolution" and "the saint of China", Lu Xun (1881-1936) and his legacy continue to resonate in Chinese intellectual life.
Herta Muller (pictured), winner of the 2009 Nobel prize for literature, has caught publishing houses in the Chinese mainland unawares - none of the books of the new Nobel laureate have yet been translated and published.
In a letter dated April 19, 1988, a man named Liu Zhenhai wrote to his nephew Liu Guoqiang: "It was in the spring of 1946 that I last saw your parents and your elder brothers and sisters.
Renowned Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh was also a literary giant, say researchers who have scrutinized his vast body of correspondence - the topic of a new exhibition opening in Amsterdam on Friday.
For the first time in 60 years, treasures from the Palace Museum in Beijing have been sent to Taipei for a large-scale exhibition about Qing Dynasty Emperor Yongzheng (1678-1735).
Clad in a traditional Chinese beige shirt and glasses, gray-haired Yang Zhifa busily signs books in a gift shop in the Museum of Terracotta Warriors and Horses.
Early October is Nobel Prize announcement week. It is often an agonizing and even humiliating period for some Chinese who see the prize as the yardstick of our nation's scientific and educational development.
Ye Mingzi, granddaughter of veteran Chinese Communist general Ye Jianying, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1978 to 1983, just got married - on Sept 9.
Director Zhang Yimou will present a trendy version of classical opera Turandot at Beijing's new landmark - the Bird's Nest, on Oct 6 and 7.
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