Anyone who has used Google Maps with Street View, which uses 360-degree street-level imagery, has been on a virtual tour.
Two colorful scarecrows were carefully posed in the center of the school playground, a beacon for the enthusiastic buyers that swarmed around the booths of farmers from about 20 organic farms in Beijing.
Why buy when you can borrow? The capital now has a three-story superstore reserved solely for traders offering rental services.
Flying kites is a popular pastime for many Beijingers. But for kite-maker Hao Deli, kites are more than just a fun outdoor activity, they are art.
Bai Desheng, 60, performs martial arts as he practices calligraphy on the ground with a huge brush soaked in water, in Kaifeng city, Central China’s Henan province. Bai combines martial arts moves and handwriting as a new style of performance.
An acclaimed dough figurine sculptor has crafted a career outside of conventions and carved out a market for miniatures that bear an innovative flair. Wu Wencong reports.
Never have the country's bamboos swayed and swirled so much from their traditional image of upright seclusion into the twisted chaos created by artist Huang Zhi-yang, with a whole room of swirling and stretching bamboo branches that left many viewers in confusion. However, Huang said it's not his style to painstakingly explain the intention of design.
At the 54th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, the China Pavilion will not only be dreamy, it will also be aromatic.
Events and exhibits
The easiest and cheapest way to add a little Chinese style to a home is to paste a pair of paper rabbits onto the windows, representing good luck in the Year of the Rabbit.
Ruby Yang's China trilogy gives an outsider's perspective on the changes transforming the country.
"I'm passionate about tea-silk," said Kathrin Rechenberg in her bright and airy studio just north of the Sanlitun embassy district.
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