The setting for the seventh annual wine event the Grape Wall Challenge, in the TRB Bites restaurant in Beijing, overlooking the Forbidden City, could not have been better chosen.
Those who market tequila see a great future for it in China - with or without margaritas.
Who belongs to this exclusive club is a matter of much scholarly contention, but the quality of their works is not.
For art lovers the story is familiar: Master painter is found dead, paintbrush in hand. But the special thing about this artist is that he was an emperor.
I have to admit that the choking smog in which Beijing bathed this week came as a kind of relief to me.
These so-called intelligent devices are helping prevent and detect crime.
If you're feeling lost, unloved and lonely, despair not-solace may be just a microchip or two away.
I grew up in a shikumen lane house. The alley was so narrow that if I stood on my toes in the bathtub I could watch the couple living across from us quarrel, and yet it seemed to me that the street was wide, always bright and well-to-do.
As harried mothers coax their children from bed, there is a clinking of milk bottles outside as the delivery man does his daily rounds, and for Barnybas Covey this is as reliable a guide as the finest Swiss watch that it is 7 am.
It's spend, spend, spend as the world drinks at the tap of Chinese good fortune XU LIN
Upmarket companies have realized that Chinese shoppers are voting with their passports, but for many the lure of overseas bargains remains irresistible
A long friendship delivers an experience of green, white, red and pink, and many shades in between.