The author is a columnist and culture critic with China Daily
Nobody should be surprised about the best-selling author making headlines, but what's different this time is he's in the business pages.
Twenty-five years ago, Megatrends was a must-read for any Chinese who was keen to know about the world - not just the world as it was, but the world that would be.
Lifestyle changes are often spearheaded by trendsetters, such as movie stars and hip-hop idols.
Early October is Nobel Prize announcement week. It is often an agonizing and even humiliating period for some Chinese who see the prize as the yardstick of our nation's scientific and educational development.
Ever since Zhang Yimou was invited to stage Turandot in Florence, Italy, in 1996, he has been fixated on this operatic gem. But the many productions he has undertaken do not vary much in concept and only slightly in execution. Yes, the venues change and the sets become larger and more extravagant, but what else?
In the art world or in the natural world, green usually serves as a supporting color for red, which blossoms and catches all the attention.
A half-Chinese, half-black young woman is making a lot of Chinese netizens mad. She didn't do anything. She just looks different.
If you want to read tea leaves about China, the just concluded Happy Girls talent show offered a basketful of foliage.
When Zhang Yinan was filling out a job application form she came to "family financial status" and quickly skipped it.
Andy Lau is facing the biggest dilemma of his career. He loves to keep up the facade of being a happy-go-lucky bachelor, yet custom mandates he perform certain tasks that contradict that appearance.
China Central Television aired an investigative show last week about a problematic cure for Internet addiction. It focused on a doctor who uses electro-convulsive therapy to treat mostly teenagers sent in by their parents and guardians to achieve "behavioral correction", as the treatment is labeled at a Linyi, Shandong province, hospital.
Singer Han Xiao and a dozen others were arrested over the weekend for taking illegal drugs. It seems that hardly a month goes by without some celebrity being caught for this reason. With so many famous entertainers being exposed as drug addicts, headlines are quickly turning into clichs.