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Signature works
Paintings by landscape master Li Keran (1907-89), created between 1940 and 1980, are now on display at the Beijing Fine Art Academy. |
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Last frontier
China's magical mountains lure the world's best climbers and offer an unrivaled taste of heaven but they can also deliver a deadly blow. |
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Roaring good yarn
When he heard his class was expecting a storyteller, Ben Mak, a 14-year-old student at Hong Kong's Lee Shau Kee Middle School, thought he was going to meet someone with a long beard. |
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Growing ambitions
Palidan Tu'ersun knew little about art when she transferred to Xingzhi New Citizens Primary School, a migrant children's school in Beijing's suburbs. |
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Same old village but brand new livelihoods
A solitary farmer makes his way up the track with some kind of crude tree-pruning implement resting on his shoulder. |
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Stand up, local hero
If you want to see Zhou Libo's ongoing stand-up comedy A Laughable Talk on Big Shanghai at the Majestic Theater of Shanghai, you'll have to wait till the end of July. |
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Hear no evil, Fear No Evil
Beijing, already one of the world's most vibrant musical capitals, will next week host a new German music festival. |
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Erudite confusion
Dressed in a sharp, light summer frock, Professor Yu Dan sits in the cafeteria of a posh Beijing hotel, sipping from a largish glass of green tea. |
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Belling the Confucian cat
If Chinese legislators are dyeing their hair black, it's because they, following the line of Mencius. |
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Face of the future
Yuja Wang may have been disappointed when she walked on stage on Thursday evening to find 30 percent of the seats empty. |
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