On China's online social networks, Wu Yuchu called himself Yagebo, which means old yak in Tibetan.
The high-altitude Ruoergai Grassland in northern Sichuan province attracts tourists today for picturesque wetlands and diverse wildlife. More than 80 years ago, however, the scene was less tranquil - the Red Army fighting against harsh terrain and weather during the Long March, a military retreat the Communist Party of China conducted from 1934-36.
The world's oldest mummies have just had an unusual checkup.
One of William Shakespeare's tragedies, King Lear, is being translated into Mandarin for a stage production, which will open in Beijing on Jan 20. The play is a production by the National Center for the Performing Arts and is part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 10-year cultural exchange project, entitled Shakespeare's Folio Translation Project.
Winning a Pulitzer Prize and a clutch of Tony Awards in a single year would be enough for almost anyone. Not Lin-Manuel Miranda. Not in 2016.
Competition is cutthroat among Japan's thousands of pop-idol wannabes, but a unique concept is winning fame for a band of "chubby" girls deploying their cheeky cuteness to combat prejudices against obesity.
Shanghai is a mega city that's the engine of China's financial and innovation development. It offers a captivating blend of modernity and old-world charm like no other place in the country.
Many world-class cities are endowed with a first-rate river.
Guidebooks advise sampling Shanghai's "must-tries" like xiaolongbao (soup dumplings), red-braised pork and hairy crabs.
In front of Lai Puxiu's house, a group of "soldiers" in the octagonal hats and cloth shoes of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army are pounding glutinous rice into a paste. A loudspeaker blasts out the revolution song "Ten farewells to the Red Army."
Tibetans lit butter lamps and prayed through the night in an annual festival commemorating Tsong Khapa, a master of Tibetan Buddhism.
Andrew Mason, the founder and former CEO of Groupon, said, "All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure."
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