The Chinese Communist Party has turned Lu Xun, a Mao-era hero who excoriated the establishment, into a bland, Disney-style character. Lu Xun, China’s best-known modern writer, has become a mascot in ...

This real-photo postcard shows a farmer, on the left, carrying rocks from stone walls to the rock crusher in his horse-pulled wagon. In the center of the photo is the coal-driven steam machine ...

From the election of Zohran Mamdani to the intrigue surrounding the jewel heist at the Louvre, keeping up with this year's news also left some Americans struggling with pronunciations. That's put both ...

The Lu Xun Memorial Hall in Shaoxing, East China’s Zhejiang Province, responded Monday evening to debate over a mural showing the famed writer with a cigarette, stressing that the site has always ...

A decades-old mural of Chinese literary icon Lu Xun holding a cigarette has sparked online debate — and memes — after an anti-smoking activist claimed the image encourages smoking and should be ...

At the recently concluded 2025 Shanghai Book Fair, a single item stole the spotlight - not a best-selling novel or a rare manuscript, but a sweater vest. Inspired by the one frequently worn by Chinese ...

What Exactly Is a Gyro? Gyros consist of a pita wrap containing meat (usually pork and beef in Greece, while lamb is more common in the U.S.) sliced off a vertical rotisserie. Typical toppings include ...

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is making headlines again after meetings with the Department of Justice. A senior DOJ official met ...

The high-profile Chinese movie has been boarded by Losange Films for international sales and Tandem Films for French distribution Rising Chinese filmmaker Gu Xiaogang (aka Gu You) is set to direct ...