Children made up a large proportion of the more than 400,000 visitors at the Shanghai Book Fair which took place at Shanghai Exhibition Center from Aug 16 to 22.
Science fiction was featured at this year's International Literary Week, a key part of the annual Shanghai Book Fair.
A new kind of shopping in which you can enjoy stylish architecture and snazzy interior design as you buy stuff, or down cups of coffee as you read, is staving off the demise of bookshops.
Tamara Macfarlane, a teacher, founded Tales on Moon Lane Children's Bookshop in Half Moon Lane, London, in 2003.
'I've done just two big things in my life," Liu Ke says. "I played rock for five or six years and I have run vintage clothes shops for the past 10 years."
They are the people for whom the word old means quaint rather than decrepit, and for whom dated stuff is not just desirable, but cool as well.
In Emperor Qianlong's 60 years on the throne he looked to his mother, his late father and his grandfather as guiding lights.
Emperor's penchant for travel was tightly bound to his reputation for being highly educated.
Qianlong has been billed as a lady killer, but when he headed to his favorite retreat he had very serious regal duties on his mind.
It's unlikely to be on many people's list of "Ten places I must seen in China before I die."
When the US-born Taiwan-based director and playwright Stan Lai Sheng-chuan brought his comedy Menage a 13 to Huichang county, Jiangxi province, two years ago there was one thing that took him aback: not one person in the audience laughed.
Russian Slava Polunin remembers his friends laughing when he imitated Charlie Chaplin's walk after watching The Kid as a kid - and realizes it may have been the start of his career.
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