Culture & Life
Culture & Life
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China to Boost Cultural Ties with Nigeria
Nov 4, 2015China was set to strengthen its ties with Nigeria by enhancing the cultural relations between the two countries, an official said on Tuesday. Yan Xiangdong, the Director of Chinese Cultural Center, disclosed this at a news conference to ...
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Popular Chinese Dishes in The US
Nov 4, 2015What comes to mind when we speak of cultural exports from China to the United States? Bruce Lee, the giant panda, or kung fu? Without a doubt, these cultural symbols are successful exports of Chinese culture, but another form of Chinese ...
Tags: Chinese Dishes, Popular in The US
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in Ang Lee's Footsteps to Make The Crouching Tiger Sequel
Nov 4, 2015Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon took audiences by storm when it was released 15 years ago. Now, 15 years after Ang Lee's international hit won four prizes at the 73th Academy Awards, the impressive Chinese wuxia (martial ...
Tags: Oscar-winning, Crouching Tiger, Filmmaking
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Business Leaders Savor Film Set in Romantic Era
Nov 4, 2015To many Chinese, the early 1980s were part of a "golden era" for idealists. A romance film named after the decade has recently made a nostalgic splash among those missing their lost youth and dreams. Love in the 1980s, adapted from a ...
Tags: romance film, Romantic Era, Business
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Upcoming Documentary on Sino-US Relations
Nov 4, 2015"The mystic chords of memory ... will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." With this, US President Abraham Lincoln ended his first inaugural speech in March ...
Tags: Documentary, Sino-US Relations
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Stephen Chow Is King of Comedy, Says Survey
Nov 4, 2015Hong Kong filmmaker Stephen Chow may be the king of comedy films in China, according to a new survey. Toutiao.com, the website of a popular cellphone application, gathered data from its nearly 300 million users to show Chow's influence on ...
Tags: King of Comedy, Stephen Chow, films
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Film Shows Xinjiang Youth Studying in Cities Across China
Nov 4, 2015During the past 15 years, nearly 70,000 ethnic teenagers from Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region have been recruited to study at inland city high schools. Now, a coming-of-age film inspired by the project, a national program, will be ready ...
Tags: Film, Xinjiang Youth, Studying in Cities
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Chinese Cultural Center Inaugurated in Belgium
Nov 4, 2015Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong and Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders have inaugurated a new Chinese cultural center in the Belgian capital of Brussels on Wednesday. The pair watched several musical and dance performances at the ...
Tags: Chinese Cultural Center, Belgium
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Art Exhibition Pops up in Beijing Clothing Store
Nov 4, 2015An art exhibition kicked off at the clothing store JNBY in Beijing's Sanlitun on Sep 15. "Land, Devil & Night" curated by You Yang, Deputy Director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) presents artworks of artists He An, Lu ...
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Nanjing Art Festival Highlights World Masterpieces
Nov 4, 2015The 2015 Nanjing International Art Festival opens today, which will run through Sept 26 at the Nanjing International Exhibition Center. The festival has selected nearly 1,000 pieces of art among more than 20,000 artworks from all around the ...
Tags: Nanjing Art Festival, Nanjing International Exhibition Center, art
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The Fourth Mongolian Dance Competition Kicks off in Huhhot
Nov 4, 2015The fourth Mongolian Dance Competition will be held in Huhhot in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region from Sept 14 to Sept 20. Over 2,000 participants enrolled in the competition for 98 programs. They were chosen from a primary selection ...
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17th-Century Hong Kong Furniture at Auction
Nov 4, 2015Seventeenth-Century Chinese furniture is among highlights at Christie's auction house in New York right now. It's come to market thanks to the sale of a private Hong Kong collection. Asian Art Week is also offering rare Chinese ceramics. ...
Tags: Chinese furniture, art, Ceramics
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Historical Drama Reflects on Power
Nov 4, 2015"The Great Revenge" tells a famed story of ancient China about a king who seems to right a wrong. But in this dramatization by the Beijing People's Art Theater, the main message of the play is a warning about the corruptions of power. The ...
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Expo Offers 10,000 Yuan to Translate Sacred Sutras in Sanskrit
Nov 4, 2015A 10,000 yuan ($1,571) reward is being offered to whoever can translate the Sanskit scripture written on a prized collection of 171 Pattra-leaf sutras that will be exhibited at the 3rd Taihu International Buddhism, Tourism and Culture Expo ...
Tags: Pattra-leaf sutras, Tibetan culture, reward, translate
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Mountains May Depart Vies for Oscar
Nov 4, 2015Chinese director Jia Zhangke has revealed that his latest film Mountains may depart is to be submitted for this year's foreign-language category at the Academy Awards. The movie tells the story of a family that moves from China to ...
Tags: Jia Zhangke, film, Mountains, Oscar
