No matter what soothes your soul, the classic or beyond the mainstream, come and be spoiled for choice at the Beijing Music Festival, says Chen Jie. For music lovers, Beijing has too many choices, from high-brow classical to underground ...
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Fu Yiqing's life has many facets. She runs a successful interior decoration business, and travels to scores of countries to learn about local handicraft skills. Her installation art works have drawn huge crowds and more than 90,000 saw her ...
New Defense Ministry spokesman highlights importance of 'utmost sincerity' in key role After his successful debut as spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense, Wu Qian was both focused and modest: "I expect to undertake this job ...
Li Yundi, a famous Chinese pianist, became the youngest juror in the history of the International Chopin Piano Competition, often referred to as the Piano Olympics. In an exclusive interview with Xinhua, Li recalled how being invited to ...
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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 ...
Viewed as a leading artist of his generation, Jia Aili's works often feature a pessimistic palette and a dark vision that he, however, interprets as the meaning of hope. Beijing-based Jia, 36, conveyed the same message, but in vibrant ...
Oscar-winning French director Jean-Jacques Annaud denounced Academy Award organizers yesterday after his Sino-French co-production, Wolf Totem, was dropped from the Oscar race for being insufficiently Chinese. Annaud said he was ...
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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 ...
The surprise choice of Go Away Mr Tumor instead of Wolf Totem as China's official entry for this year's Oscars has shocked local filmmakers, who say the Academy's rules 'aren't clear.' Xu Fan reports. Young Chinese director Han Yan was ...
Tags: Oscars, movie, Chinese-language movie
Tibetan moviemakers are increasingly moving away from themes of scenery and mysticism to tell people stories. The Tibetan-language movie Tharlo has been nominated in four categories for this year's Golden Horse Award, a prestigious annual ...
Tags: movie, Cutting Cliches, culture
Emerging Chinese director Song Pengfei could hardly believe that his first try at film directing would turn out to be an immediate success. At Friday night, amid applause and enthusiasm, Song, director of a movie entitled Underground ...
Tags: Chinese films, Chicago Film Fest
Vice President of China Chamber of Commerce of Foodstuffs and Native Produce (CCCFNA) Yu Lu went to Italy for Seminar on Eurasia Continent Cooperation on June 22-23. At the meeting, Vice President Yu Lu made a keynote speech on “the ...
On August 23, Chinese Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng, who was attending the East Asia Summit Economic Ministers’ Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Capital of Malaysia, received the exclusive interview with major domestic media including ...
The 14th SCO Economic and Trade Ministers’ Meeting concluded in Xi’an on September 16. The chairman of the meeting, the head of Chinese delegation, and the Chinese Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng attended the news conference and ...
Leading LED chip manufacturer Epistar’s has raised the number of job cuts from the previously announced 65 to about 180, reported UDN. Job cuts at the company’s factories in northern Taiwan’s Hsinchu Science Park will ...
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