Beauty in North, an oil painting by Wang Qijun. Huang Zhiling/China Daily Beauty in North, an oil painting by Wang Qijun, was sold for 1.1 million yuan ($171,880) at the Beijing Hanhai 2015 Autumn Auctions on Friday. Wang, professor of ...
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Actor Liao Fan plays the title role in The Master, a martial arts thriller that pays tribute to Bruce Lee. The movie is set to open across the country on Dec 11. [Photo provided to China Daily] While most directors rely on computers to ...
Dancer-choreographer Hou Ying instructs young dancers at a rehearsal of her production Tu Tu in Beijing. [Photo by Feng Yongbin/China Daily] At a late-afternoon rehearsal in a vast studio at Hou Ying Dance Theater on Beijing's outskirts, ...
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A German artist performs at the China Quanzhou International Puppet Festival. GUO HONGSONG/CHINA DAILY It was a fiesta for puppets-those artful creatures that come to joyful life and overcome language barrier. Last week, as a highlight ...
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The Tree by Domenico Monteforte. [Photo provided to China Daily] Artists from Tuscany in Italy have used brushes, colors and even a shuttlecock to portray their impressions of China. The exhibition, New Ways of Seeing, at the Shaw Hall ...
Chinese actors perform drama "Confucius" at Belgrade's Sava Center in Serbia, Nov 15, 2015. [Photo/Xinhua] As soon as they returned to the stage after performing a one-and-half hour drama featuring ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius, ...
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Luo Erchun. [Photo provided to China Daily] Six months after his first solo exhibition, Luo Erchun, a respected oil painter and professor with the Central Academy of Fine Arts, died in his Beijing home in late October. He was 85. Unlike ...
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Acrobatic performance. [Photo provided to China Daily] The Grand Theater of Wuqing will start a new season of performing arts later this month. Located in Wuqing district of Tianjin, the Grand Theater of Wuqing, with a seating capacity ...
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Performances of Peking Opera, which originated in the mid-19th century, are still popular among Chinese audiences. [Photo provided to China Daily] Early last year, when Shan Jixiang, director of the Palace Museum, suggested establishing a ...
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Li Weikang, one of the country's most famous Peking Opera performers, wants to use her experience to keep the traditional theater form fresh. [Photos provided to China Daily] Like many ancient art forms in China, Peking Opera is ...
A poster of the fantasy movie Monster Hunt [File photo] The Chinese film industry has experienced new highs this year, with several breakthrough domestic works proving hits across the country and breaking the box office records time after ...
Liverpool City Councilor Gary Millar (center) takes a photo with leading performers Li Shengsu (left) and Yu Kuizhi of The Warrior Women of Yang in Liverpool on Nov 13. [Photo provided to China Daily] With star performers, lavish ...
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Yoko Ono poses with her work, To See the Sky, at her solo show in Beijing. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] The 82-year-old conceptual artist and singer Yoko Ono was in Beijing late last week for her exhibition Golden Ladders, which is ...
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The Ritual by Sun Zhensheng is one of the gongbi paintings on display at the show Subtlety Transcend. [Photo provided to China Daily] The highly detailed gongbi technique, with a history of 2,000 years, is still held dear by Chinese ...
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Jean-Jacques De Dardel (3rd L), Swiss Ambassador to China, Fan Di'an (4th R), president of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Philippe Staib (1st R), founder of Philippe Staib Gallery in Shanghai, Henry-Claude Cousseau (2nd L), president of ...
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