From woodcuts to new media

Many commercially successful artists got their start by selling prints of their oil paintings. However, many critics decry their work as counterfeiting under the mask of print art.

Sticking to a dream

To struggle against disease and to fight to fulfill dreams are things all people experience. In that sense, the problems of China’s poorest are the problems of all mankind.

A classic tale retold

Last Saturday, on Chinese Valentine’s Day – or Qixi – 35-year-old engineer Yang took his Australian girlfriend, Jessie, to a romantic hutong restaurant near Houhai with the intent of proposing to her.

Careful clothes flower lipstick

This translation seems to have been an amateur one that does not really say what it needs to say. I thought it was Google Translate, but it isn’t. If it was, it would be: “Please take care of you clothes get lipstick.” Huh?

Blacklist

When “to get” means to arrive at a place, it is an intransitive verb. You cannot say: He got Beijing yesterday.

Nights perfect for squeezing in a run

Most people are aware of the health benefits of a daily jog, but with limited daily hours and long commutes, city residents can seldom squeeze in a daily run. But evening jogs are every bit as healthy, and in some ways may be even more so.

Talored underwear for health and fashion

Luxury haute couture has been clogging up the Chinese catwalks for so long that many women believe that the best way to look elegant is to spend gads of money on ready-to-wears dresses.

Nation considers allowing foreigners to hunt

The nation may reopen its forests to foreign hunters for the first time since 2006. An expert team at the State Forestry Administration (SFA) recently approved seven foreigners to hunt certain Class 2 protected animals in the country.

Public still wary of slower bullet trains

The State Council’s decision to slow the operational speed of the nation’s high-speed rails on Wednesday was met with a tepid welcome after last month’s fatal train collision raised concerns over safety.

Officials enter the microblog era

Yunnan’s former deputy director of the department of information Wu Hao may have been the country’s first official to tweet under his real name, but Cai Qi was the first to win more than a million followers.