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Chinese Artists Showcase Paintings and Calligraphy for Milan Expo

Oct 28, 2015

A batch of paintings and calligraphy works by prestigious Chinese artists are in a preview exhibition through Saturday at the Cultural Palace of Nationalities in Beijing and will be on display at the China Pavilion during the ongoing Expo ...

Tags: Chinese Artists, Paintings, Calligraphy, Milan Expo

Uninsured Clergy Face Retirement Crisis

Oct 28, 2015

Father Francis Li Jianlin has been looking for investment opportunities and health insurance in his spare time, spurred on by a feeling of responsibility for the priests and nuns in his Catholic diocese in Xinxiang, Henan province. ...

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Leading Museums Plan Closer Relations

Oct 28, 2015

Major museums around the world agreed on Thursday to work closer together to improve urban cultural development and face the challenges posed by new technology at the first Forbidden City Forum in Beijing. Curators, directors and other ...

Tags: museums, cultural development, Palace Museum

French Summer

Oct 28, 2015

Chinese pianist Lang Lang records his new album at the Palace of Versailles, Chen Nan reports. Chinese pianist Lang Lang is seeking to highlight a connection between Russian composer Tchaikovsky and Polish composer Frederic Chopin, both ...

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Pianist Zhu Xiaomei: Communicating Lao Tze Through Bach

Oct 28, 2015

"I was told to be prepared for the audience to leave, but no one left - no one ever made a sound." Zhu Xiaomei, the pianist who left China in disappointment more than 30 years ago, said she gained a lot of confidence in the country after ...

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a Glimpse of The Upcoming Metropolitan Chinese Painting Exhibition

Oct 28, 2015

Following the example of The Precious Collection of the Stone Moat, a special gallery featuring traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting in the Palace Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced it will hold a world-class ...

Tags: Chinese Painting Exhibition, Palace Museum, pictorial art

Films -- China-Italy Connection

Oct 28, 2015

When the 13th-century Italian merchant and traveler Marco Polo finished his famous book The Travels of Marco Polo, he couldn’t have imagined that seven centuries later his adventures in China would be adapted into a seven-hour film. ...

Tags: film, China's film industry, co-production

Peking Opera on Broadway

Oct 28, 2015

With a history spanning more than two centuries, Peking Opera is regarded as the jewel in the crown of Chinese culture. Born in Beijing in the mid-19th century, it absorbed facets of a variety of performing arts from different provinces ...

Tags: Peking Opera, Zhang Shu, Broadway

10 UK Universities That Attract The Most Chinese Students

Oct 28, 2015

The UK remains one of Chinese students' top three destinations for studying abroad, and the growing number going there in recent years has not gone unnoticed. In January, the UK's Higher Education Statistics Authority said more first-year ...

Tags: Chinese students, studying abroad, UK universities

Phantom Is Here

Oct 28, 2015

The Phantom of the Opera, a hit musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, staged its first show in Guangzhou city in Guangdong province on Sept 22. The southern Chinese city is the second location on the mainland, after Shanghai, to host the show ...

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Art Fest Hopes to Reach Audience of 4 Million

Oct 28, 2015

Shanghai's efforts to bring art to the people are paying off, as more than 4 million people are expected to participate in the ongoing China Shanghai International Arts Festival. The 17th annual festival runs through Nov 16, with 46 ...

Tags: Art Fest, Theater performances, Art Space

Photo Exhibition Traces Poverty Reduction in Inner Mongolia

Oct 28, 2015

An ongoing photo exhibition looks at the progress in poverty reduction that has been achieved in the Hobq Desert in China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region over three decades. More than 130 snapshots show how local residents have greened ...

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Museum Spotlights Jinling Landscape Art

Oct 28, 2015

The Land Is So Pretty is a carefully curated exhibition to show representative works of the New Jinling Painting School of Jiangsu province. A selection of 65 high-quality ink paintings from the collection of Jiangsu Art Museum are ...

Tags: ink paintings, Jinling Landscape Art, historical values

Red Art Show Illustrates Life After Revolution

Oct 28, 2015

Painting New China An exhibition at Beijing's Dadu Museum of Art, is dedicated to the "Red classic art" that was born between 1949 and 1976 to reflect social progress in agricultural reform and industrialization. The works on show mark ...

Tags: Red Art, Illustrates Life After Revolution, paintings

Xi and First Lady Visit British Royal Collections' Chinese Items

Oct 28, 2015

Following a private lunch and a state banquet hosted by Queen Elizabeth II at UK's Buckingham Palace, President Xi Jinping and first lady Peng Liyuan were invited to a viewing of Chinese-related items at the British Royal Collection. Let's ...

Tags: Buckingham Palace, Chinese-related items, British Royal Collection