Written in 1598, the same year as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Tang Xianzu's "The Peony Pavilion" tells the tale of Du Liniang, a young woman from a wealthy family who falls asleep beside a peony ...

"Five-year plans are to China's development what construction drawings are to building a house," said Ran Hao, a professor at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee. "It tells the government ...