The first-ever convention for Broadway fans was nearing the end of its first of three days in New York last January when snow began falling.
It takes bravery to explore Mohe in winter - and a lot of warm clothes.
Lake Lucerne winds through the Alps with a series of bends, S-curving around towering mountains like slalom skiers carving into snow thousands of feet above. But even though skiing gets all the glory in wintertime Switzerland, a ferry ride on the lake can also be a welcome diversion for a traveler with a few hours to spare.
The last month of the lunar calendar used to be called the Hunting Month in more rustic times.
After watching Zhang Yimou's latest film The Great Wall , Gu Meng was impressed by the army of Tao Tie monsters from Chinese mythology. However, he complained that the Tao Tie in Zhang's film were not "Chinese" monsters.
In recent years, the treatment of pregnant patients has become an increasingly thorny task for Liu Wenxian, a cardiologist at Anzhen Hospital in Beijing, as a result of the rise in the number of older women wanting to give birth.
When officials of Fuyang approached Wang Shu in 2012 to ask him to design an arts center, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect had a rather unusual condition.
Waking up to birds chirping and a gentle breeze blowing is one of the pleasures of living near Zhejiang's tourism hot spot Qiandao Lake.
If there is one quality a good administrator of an empire ought to have it's knowing where everything is.
Xu Genshun may already be 67 this year, but the memories of his profession as a political photographer are still as intact as the poignant images he once shot.
When Chinese-American guitarist Lawrence Ku came to Beijing in 1997, he found that the jazz scene in the capital was small but burgeoning.
Vanness Wu emerges from the Beijing office of his record company, Universal Music Group, at noon, shakes hands politely and sits down quietly.