A former textile factory in Beijing's Chaoyang district is taking on a new look and is set to become a hub for the capital's creative industries. Covering an area of 120,000 square meters, Laijin Creative Industry Park is built on the ...
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An annual dialogue between American and Chinese college students has taken place in Beijing. This year's event has asked the question: How much do we know about each other? In an attempt to answer it, college students from Chinese and ...
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The 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 ...
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"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 ...
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China 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 ...
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Video 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 ...
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A 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 ...
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Little 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 ...
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A 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 ...
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The 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 ...
A 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 ...
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The 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 ...
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Works 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. ...
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The 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 ...
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More 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 ...