On the Chinese Lunar New Year’s Eve, more than a hundred Chinese people gather at the only Chinese-style temple in Mumbai – the Kwan Kung shrine in the Mazgaon neighborhood – to draw divination sticks and pray with burning joss sticks. The three-story shrine has survived for a century.

The exhibition invited 50 artists from different countries including China, Mexico, Spain, Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa and South Korea. Their works discuss the role art plays in the chain reaction of emerging economies and how art deals with social transformations and their influence on society and individuals.

In recent years, China’s natural education has prospered. Nowadays, as environmental problems worsen, natural education has shifted focus to coexisting as part of nature and aims to improve the ecology. Contemporary natural education promotes not only education “in” nature and “about” nature but also “for” nature.

Zhangjiajie Sandstone Peak Forest Geopark, the name referring to the area’s scenic spots collectively, is a geologist’s dream.

The lives of Zhang Guixian and Jia Dan, who work painstakingly as the water watchers of Peizhai Village.

On a recent visit to the village of Peizhai, in central China’s Henan Province, I witnessed the achievements made on one particular community’s road to modernization—as well as how they are maintaining traditions despite the quick development.

In 2005, villagers invited local-born entrepreneur Pei Chun- liang, who was working elsewhere, to return to head the village committee. Since then, Pei has led his fellow villagers to dig deep wells, erect greenhouses and build commercial streets and reservoirs.

In 1936, when Japanese troops attacked China’s Suiyuan region, Fang, then a photo correspondent with the China and Foreign Journalism Society, contributed a number of news photos and articles from the frontlines.However, Fang went missing after his last battlefield report on Ta Kung Pao on September 30, 1937.

Even though the transaction of the monthly stipend of 15,000 pounds paid by the Japanese embassy sounds handsome, it remains unimaginable that a prominent think tank like HJS would accept the payment.

“We live in India now and this is our new home, but we shouldn’t forget where our roots are, where we came from.”