Culture & Life
Culture & Life
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New Book Offers Rare Insight Into Xi's Personal Journey
Oct 29, 2015The Xi Jinping Era presents his vision in Chinese and English, and offers glimpses into the president's personal life. As a young boy, Xi Jinping once refused to wear an old pair of shoes with floral prints for fear of being teased by ...
Tags: New Book, Xi's Personal Journey
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Fight to Finish
Oct 29, 2015Tom Cruise's stunts and news of some Chinese investment are drawing people to Mission: Impossible-Rouge Nation. Xu Fan interviews director Christopher McQuarrie. Ethan Hunt looks unbeatable in Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation. Tom ...
Tags: Chinese investment, films, Hollywood
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The Yellow River Film Aims to Touch a Chord
Oct 29, 2015"Wind is raging. Horses are whinnying. The Yellow River is roaring." The lyrics of The Yellow River Cantata boosted the fighting spirit of the Chinese when facing the Japanese during wartime and influenced later generations, too. Now, a ...
Tags: The Yellow River, Film
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Sino-Korean Short Film Festival Enters Second Year
Oct 29, 2015A festival of short films by Chinese and South Korean filmmakers on the theme "share your dreams" kicked off in Dachang county, Hebei province, last week. It is the annual show's second edition that is co-hosted by South Korean ...
Tags: Sino-Korean Short Film, cultural ties, film industries
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China May Enter China-France Co-Production Wolf Totem for Oscars
Oct 29, 2015China may submit Wolf Totem, a co-production between China and France, as its 2016 Academy Awards best foreign language film entry after it was announced that another contender lost the bid late Tuesday. The producers of Mountains May ...
Tags: Wolf Totem, film, Oscars
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Youku to Hold Big Offline Music Festival
Oct 29, 2015Video streaming site Youku Tudou will launch its first large-scale music festival next month. The Dream Music Festival is a series of offline gigs that the Chinese company will hold in Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan, where 36 solo singers ...
Tags: Youku, Tudou, music festival
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Chinese Film Retrospective to Kick off in Washington D.C.
Oct 29, 2015A Century of Enlightenment, a Chinese film retrospective exhibition, will kick off on Friday in the US capital Washington D.C. During the one week activity, a forum on Sino-US cultural and film exchange will also be held. Sponsored by the ...
Tags: A Century of Enlightenment, Chinese film, retrospective exhibition
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More Than 5000 British Children to Be Taught Mandarin
Oct 29, 2015More than 5,000 British students will be taught Mandarin in schools, after a 15 million US dollar funding boost announced Wednesday by the British government. Last year, only about 2 percent of state funded primary schools in Britain and ...
Tags: British students, Mandarin, Chinese
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Exhibition Held to Celebrate Tibet's Establishment
Oct 29, 2015An exhibition named Extremely Beautiful Tibet kicked off on Wednesday at Yanhuang Art Museum in Beijin, capital of China. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, the exhibition ...
Tags: exhibition, Tibet's Establishment
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Little Door Gods to Be Released on New Year's Day
Oct 29, 2015Little Door Gods , an animation film about Chinese celestial beings, will be screened across the nation on New Year's Day next year. The film by Light Chaser Animation will follow the journey of two door gods in a contemporary Chinese ...
Tags: Little Door Gods, animation film
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Century-Old Osmanthus Plants on Display at Summer Palace
Oct 29, 2015A fragrant osmanthus exhibition kicked off on Thursday in the Summer Palace in the northwestern suburbs of Beijing to celebrate the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day. A total of 72 century-old osmanthus plants and more than ...
Tags: osmanthus exhibition, shrubs, scented tea
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World Folk Artists Gather at Guizhou Expo
Oct 29, 2015The first China (Guizhou) International Folk Crafts and Cultural Products Expo opened Thursday in Guiyang, Guizhou province and will run through Wednesday. More than 150 craftsmen from 31 countries will show their crafts and skills. The ...
Tags: World Folk Artists, Guizhou Expo, Traditional handicraft
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The 6th Beijing Biennale: a Showcase of Cultural Diversity
Oct 29, 2015The 6th China Beijing International Art Biennale opened its doors on Sept 24 at the National Art Museum of China. It is themed "Memory and Dreams". The thematic exhibition features 685 pieces of art from 96 countries. The exhibition ...
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More Than 1,000 Beijing Historic Gardens, Parks Lack Overall Protection
Oct 29, 2015A report by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape and Forestry shows that 1,094 of the city's historic gardens and parks lack of overall protection and are particularly at risk, even facing permanent disappearance. Although "Regulations ...
Tags: historic gardens, parks, overall protection
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Which American Films Are on President Xi's Watching List?
Oct 29, 2015People can understand a country or a nation from its movies because films can be seen as carriers of culture. China's President Xi Jinping expressed his love towards American films like Sleepless in Seattle, at the welcoming dinner hosted ...
