Culture & Life
Culture & Life
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Hollywood Eyes Booming Chinese Market
Oct 29, 2015Latest stats are suggesting the Chinese box office may surpass the US as the world's largest by as early as 2018. Jim Rainey is a senior film reporter with US-based film industry publication Variety. He says the overseas markets have ...
Tags: Chinese box office, US-based film industry, Chinese Market
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Crewel Needles Made with Traditional Techniques in Shanxi
Oct 29, 2015Craftsmen Li Shuanglu (left) and Wu Laishun (right) try to beat a piece of steel bar flat with a hammer in making crewel needles in Dayang township of Zezhou county, North China's Shanxi province, Sept 24, 2015. Pei Xiangnan, 66, is the ...
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Confucius Institute in Madrid Brings Chinese Culture Closer to General Public on Confucius Institute Day
Oct 29, 2015The Confucius Institute in Madrid brought Chinese culture closer to the general public on Saturday on the occasion of the Confucius Institute Day. The Institute organized different activities that took place between 11:00 local time ...
Tags: Confucius Institute, Chinese Culture, Madrid
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Xinjiang Muslims Embrace Corban Festival
Oct 29, 2015Muslims in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region began celebrating on Thursday as one of the biggest religious festivals in China gets underway. The three-day Corban Festival, also known as Eid al-Adha or feast of the sacrifice, centers ...
Tags: Xinjiang Muslims, Corban Festival
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Young US Adults View China More Favorably
Oct 29, 2015A recent poll shows that a little more than a third of Americans hold increasingly favorable views of China. And among them are young adults who say the rise of China is something not to be taken lightly. New polling shows that a little ...
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Autistic and Artistic: a Young Man Is Being Labelled 'chinese Picasso'
Oct 29, 2015Works by a young painter have recently become a hit on Chinese social media. To people's surprise, the painter turned out to be just 19 years old - and autistic. Bi Changyu, born in Shaoxing, was diagnosed with autism at the age of three. ...
Tags: Bi Changyu, young painter, chinese Picasso, autistic children
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2015 Beijing Design Week Showcases Designs That Enrich Life and Humanity
Oct 29, 2015The 2015 International Beijing Design Week (BJDW) kicked off on Wednesday, highlighting designs that are open and inclusive, and devoted to improving people's lives. Co-hosted by the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of ...
Tags: Beijing Design Week, Designs, people's lives
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a 1990s Commercial Flashback to The Forbidden City
Oct 29, 2015The Forbidden City, witness to the vicissitudes of China, is of deep symbolic significance for the development of Chinese society. The pictures in photographer Li Jianhui's work, Business Wave Encircling the Forbidden City in 1993, make ...
Tags: Forbidden City, development of Chinese society, change
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Online Distributors Keen to Boost Live Streaming of Shows
Oct 29, 2015More than 1.57 million fans on the Chinese mainland watched the live streaming of a recent concert as eight young women from Girls' Generation, in thigh-high leather boots, black denim shorts and plaid shirts, sang and danced to the music ...
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Global Confucius Institutes Day Celebrated in Benin
Oct 29, 2015The University of Abomey-calavi on Saturday afternoon hosted second annual Global Confucius Institutes Day aims to promote the Chinese language and culture. Students from the Confucius Institute of Abomey Calavi University, Chinese ...
Tags: Global Confucius Institutes Day, Chinese language, culture
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Swan Lake Hits The Stage in Suzhou
Oct 29, 2015The classic ballet Swan Lake by the Russian State Ballet was performed at the People's Conference Hall in Suzhou, Jiangsu province on Friday and Saturday. The renowned work by Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky tells the story of a love ...
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China's High-Speed Rail Takes Home Top Prize at Beijing Design Week
Oct 29, 2015China's high-speed rail received the "Classic Design Award" at the opening ceremony of Beijing International Design Week Saturday night. The high-speed rail stood out from 10 nominees including Great Hall of the People, the restoration ...
Tags: High-Speed Rail, Beijing Design Week, Classic Design Award
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Vienna Boys Choir Performs at The Austrian Embassy in Beijing
Oct 29, 2015The president of the Vienna Boys Choir, Mr. Gerald, and his boys presented a group-singing performance at the Austrian embassy in Beijing on Sep 25, 2015. The children’s chorus performed several Austrian songs and a Chinese song, ...
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Hot Trends From The 25th National Book Expo in Taiyuan
Oct 29, 2015The 25th National Book Expo came to a close Sunday in Taiyuan, capital of West China's Shanxi province. During the three-day Expo, 250,000 books were on display to the public, and almost 200 reading activities were held. Details of the ...
Tags: The 25th National Book Expo, publishing companies, books
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Spanish Singer Tells His Decades-Long Love for China
Oct 29, 2015Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, who was touring Mexico to promote his latest album entitled "Mexico," talked about his passion for China since his visit to the country in 1980s, and praised its culture in a recent interview. "I want to ...
Tags: Singer, Julio Iglesias, Love for China
