Running is simple. If you can walk, you can run. Running is inclusive. It is a sport for anyone, at any age and from any profession. It does not require a lot of monetary inputs. All you need is a pair of running shoes, and a ...
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Henry Chang-Yu Lee, the forensic scientist, had his own number tag (2056) at the Connecticut Department of Public Safety. But whenever his colleagues phoned for him, they asked for "007". In his career of more than 50 years, the ...
Erl is a small village in the northern part of Tyrol, Austria, which is more renowned for its cows than for double bass. But every summer, opera lovers - especially fans of the German composer Richard Wagner - from all over the world flock ...
It's around 8 pm. The streets are quiet. For most of Heze, a city in East China's Shandong province, which has a population of around 8 million and is known as the main center for the cultivation of the national flower peony, it is the end ...
Tags: Traditional Art, Chinese folk operas, cultural activity center
Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra will perform works by some of the most creative minds in contemporary Chinese music at the Forbidden City Concert Hall on Wednesday as part of the ongoing Beijing Music Festival. Commissioned by Hangzhou ...
Tao Shiqing, 60, a farmer in Gaolan county, Northwest China's Gansu province spends 10 years stippling the episodes of Chinese classical novel "The Dream of Red Mansions" on flagstones. According to a rough calculation, to complete a ...
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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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"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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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 ...
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A screen capture from film The Little Prince. One of the most translated novellas globally, The Little Prince has reportedly found its way into 253 languages and dialects, selling as many as 200 million copies, but has rarely been made ...
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Singer Sa Dingding performs in London's Lancaster House on Oct 21. Chinese singer-songwriter Sa Dingding performed at London's Lancaster House on Oct 21 in the presence of President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, at a creative ...
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Sergi Carreras has recently fulfilled his longtime dream to perform in China. Sergi Carreras recalls his uncle, Jose Carreras, returning to Barcelona from his first visit to China in 1998 after attending the debut edition of the Beijing ...
On January 5, 2015, People’s Daily published a signed article of Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng entitled “Deepening Opening up and Promoting the Great Rejuvenation—Learning from Collections of Key Speeches of General ...
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On January 15, 2015, the journal Qiushi published a signed article by Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng, titled “Grasp the World Situation and Promote the Level of Opening—Understanding of Studying and Implementing Important ...
People’s Daily published the signed paper of Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng’s To Cooperate for the Prosperity of Regional Development with the Help of the China-Korea Free Trade Agreement on June 2. The full text follows: ...
Tags: China-South Korea FTA, textile, garment, steels, liquid crystal display