Every year, millions of people travel back to their hometowns in China to celebrate Chinese New Year with their families. Check out this awesome heat map from China's largest search engine, Baidu, that shows all this movement in (almost) real time. Here you can read a bit more about the migration and how and why the map was created.
This is incredible! Chen Siyuan of Hebei Province, China can write with her left and right hand at the same time ... and she can even write in English with one hand while writing in Chinese with the other! Thanks to 马波伟 for showing me this clip.
This year, the Gala's theme is "Family Harmony Yields Success," and perhaps in an effort to emphasize harmony between the nation's different ethnic groups, CCTV has made an unprecedented choice in selecting Negmat Rahman, a TV personality who is an ethnic Uighur, as one of the program's hosts. Read about the possible political and cultural reasons for this choice in this New York Times article, or in this report from the South China Morning Post.
Check out this recent interview with Li Na, one of the highest-paid female athletes in the world, and the first tennis player from China to win a Grand Slam title. She's not only an impressive athlete, but also has a lot to say about the Chinese system for training athletes for elite competition.
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