Actor He Shan is a big fan of Woody Allen. He has what one can call a small collection of his movies, music and theater works. In 2013, He read a book, which had Chinese translations of three of Allen's one-act plays, Riverside Driver, Old ...
Tags: Woody Allen, Play, Chinese Audiences
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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Cinema typically prospers during slowdowns, and insiders think new films will turn box offices to gold, Xu Fan reports. China's box-office chart has seen new records set frequently in recent months. The latest big high-this year's first ...
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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 ...
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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Light trucks play a pivotal role in the Chinese medium- and short-distance logistic service market. Along with the constant expansion of the market, The Chinese light truck sales has been exceeded one million units during recent years. With ...
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Street performers say licenses provide a place to show off their talentsand some much-needed social recognition, reports Li Xueqing in Shanghai. One Friday afternoon in September, Xing Zhenhua opened his guitar case and began singing in ...
French sportsman Julien Vandelli didn't foresee that he would spend five years reading the abstruse ancient Chinese medical text Huangdi Neijing in a Chinese university, where he practices acupuncture and medical massage. However, the ...
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Peng Liyuan is more than simply China's first lady. She enjoyed a glittering career as a folk singer from the 1980s. Since President Xi Jinping took office in 2013, she has also attracted a lot of attention from home and abroad. She is ...
Tags: First Lady, Charming Edge, Diplomacy
For the past few decades, actress Liu Xiaoqing has managed to stay in the media spotlight, owing to her longevity as one of China's most popular actresses, still playing roles much younger than her own age. And being a top-selling ...
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The famous Chinese cardiologist Zhang Shu, 56, was the main official at this year's World Congress of Arrhythmias, which was held in Beijing from Sept 17-19. As the secretary-general of the World Society of Arrhythmias that is held once ...
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An American educator resides in a quiet Chinese city owing to her love of teaching, Liu Xiangrui reports in Yinchuan. Having spent about three years in the early 1990s teaching English to the residents of Yinchuan city in Northwest ...
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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 ...
Yo-Yo Ma's state of mind when performing is, he says, to have simultaneous access to both the conscious and unconscious mind. It is an act of artistic alchemy encapsulated in his new album Songs From the Arc of Life. For Ma, music has ...
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The film Go Away, Mr. Tumor will represent China in her bid for Best Foreign Language Film for the 88th Academy Awards. According to the official website of the Academy Awards, Go Away, Mr. Tumor, based on a real life story of cartoonist ...
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