Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi was 38 when she filmed period drama Monarch Industry, playing a character from the age of 15 into middle age. Jackie Chan and Tom Cruise get away with it, but audience and critics alike criticised her portrayal of a teen.

Lamb, seen as something of a staple meat in the north of China, is gaining popularity elsewhere in the country – and ways to prepare it differ from region to region.

Starring TFBoys member Yee and Liu Haocun, ‘A Little Red Flower’ tells the love story of a young couple with cancer and is intended as a spiritual guide, director Han Yan says.

The secrets to Sheren Tang Shui-man feeling young don’t just lie in a good skincare, no make-up routine – they lie in her Christian faith and in keeping herself mentally and physically healthy.

Sheren Tang talks to the Post about how Hong Kong actresses can make it big in China, why the continued popularity of the drama No Regrets surprises her, and how her Christian faith has helped her acting.

A collection of 71 deeply personal letters by Asian-American artists has been published, in which they reflect on their identity and the racism they have faced during Covid-19 because the pandemic began in China.

Chinese internet users were wowed by actress Meryl Streep reciting in Chinese a poem she had learned nine years earlier. The actress is not the first celebrity in the West to have shown a passion for the language.

In 10 years, Pop Mart has gone from a single shop selling bric-a-brac to China’s biggest toys enterprise. Its design director took inspiration from a rash of Hong Kong designer toy launches in the noughties.

Injecting laboratory-grown immune system cells cures 10 cats with HIV-like disease that is otherwise untreatable, and stops a feline virus similar to Covid-19. A bigger trial is needed to confirm breakthrough, which offers hope of new human treatments.

Chinese artist Cai Guo-qiang has been criticised in the past for his government commissions but his new show at Beijing’s Palace Museum is yet another. We ask him why he took it on.

From the actress in Stephen Chow Sing-chi’s 2008 film CJ7 to the girl who lip-synched to a song in the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, these five Chinese child stars went on to enjoy further show business success.

Tibetan mastiffs were once an expensive status symbol in China. When the market crashed, hundreds of thousands of dogs were abandoned on the Tibetan Plateau, where they roam in packs, affecting the food chain and ecology.

Nerd meets air hostess, they fall in love, he loses engagement ring, and laughs and learnings ensue – Adventure of the Ring, starring Chris Wang and Allison Lin, debuts on HBO Asia.

With most international borders still closed, a growing number of Chinese tourists are hitting the road in recreational vehicles (RVs) to the extent it can be hard to find one to rent.

Unlike Vocaloids, which are digital avatars run by computer programs, virtual idols have real people behind the virtual faces – and they are taking over China.

Zhang Enli made dark, expressionistic paintings of China’s urban underbelly long after peers such as Zeng Fanzhi moved on. Then he found realism and abstract art, and his career picked up.

One-time screen goddess recalls the time she shocked designer William Chang with nude Polaroids of herself, how affected she was by Anita Mui’s death, and her friendship with another film icon, Tsui Hark.

Chinese painter Chang Ta-chien designed a flower-filled courtyard in Taipei, and invited Hu Chung-hsien, once official photographer to Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek, to shoot it. His photos are on show for the first time in decades.

Shanghai becomes the world’s party capital as art fairs draw international galleries eager to profit from Chinese collectors’ ‘revenge buying’.

Using herbal medicine, acupuncture and ionotherapy, a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine says he has cured 60,000 Type 2 diabetics in the past 30 years. He heads a Beijing TCM hospital that specialises in diabetes.

To promote the launch of a new art foundation supporting young artists in China, an art exhibition featuring the work of two well-known American artists is being held in Shanghai.

Frogs have been a staple of Chinese cuisine since the Ming dynasty. A healthier option than beef, their consumption has shot up, spawning chains of frog restaurants.

Miralab, a digital robotics studio in Shanghai, will give artists access to robotics and rapid 3D-printing machines to help them fulfil their visions, founder Jung Lee of Ren Space says.

A crime thriller whose storyline is decided by audience voting, Late Shift requires cinema-goers to make 60 either/or decisions about its hero’s next steps in the course of its 90-minute running time.

Chinese martial arts actress and rising movie star Miya Muqi talks about her role model Scarlett Johansson, learning from Michelle Yeoh and promoting ‘kung fu yoga’.

Many native Cantonese speakers come a cropper in China. Not Myolie Wu, whose mastery of Mandarin Chinese and its dialects wowed actress Vicki Zhao Wei, fellow jurors and audiences on a recent reality TV show.

The collection of short films showing life in Hong Kong in 2025 was a critical hit and some of its dystopian stories seem to have come to pass. Its directors talk about their predictions and the negative effects on their lives and careers.

Universal Studios Beijing theme park is on track to open as planned in 2021 despite the Covid-19 pandemic, and it will feature unique Transformers and Kung Fu Panda attractions.

Tong Yao, star of Chinese drama Nothing But Thirty, got a head start thanks to looking like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’s Zhang Ziyi, but has hit some bumps on the way.

From spicy Sichuan and sour Yunnan styles to cooked in steel pots, Chinese water-boiled fish dishes come in many forms. We put three popular restaurants in Beijing to the test.