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Soaking up the outback with Aboriginal artist's watercolors
Aboriginal art to many tourists in Australia means paintings on bare rock and the Rainbow Serpent creation myth rendered in rich colors with the dot technique. |
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New face to helm old opera
With her long colored and curly hair, baby face and sweet smile, fast-talking soprano Wang Li, 26, looks nothing like Jiang Jie. |
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A dramatic difference
When Liu Hong first joined an after-school theater workshop with his classmates, the 14-year-old was quiet, sad, lacked confidence and was picked on easily by others. |
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Music to his ears
The debut of Meng Jinghui's latest production, a six-scene musical Murder in the Hanging Garden, ended in thunderous applause at the Citycomb Theater. |
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Broadway star takes Jane Eyre to stage
Jane Eyre, the novel, has nothing to do with Miss Saigon, the musical. That is - not until Chinese actor Wang Luoyong returns to the stage next month. |
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The monk's tale
For more than 25 years Virginia Stibbs Anami has been following the trail of a Japanese monk who traveled to China during the Tang Dynasty (AD618-907). |
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Out of the shadows
Twenty-nine-year-old Li Bin is only 1.2 m tall and his body stopped growing 23 years ago, but today Li's budding ambition is as bright as ever. |
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Three common cultural blunders expats make
Coca-cola advertisements the world over, feature smiling young celebrities with product in hand celebrating the "me generation". |
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A day at the farm
Oguzhan Yurteri was all smiles as he wiped the sweat off his brow. He had just finished playing the role of an ox. |
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Sibling rivalry
If there are two famous waterfronts in the world that in the past century have provided mirror images of each other, they are Shanghai's Bund and Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong. |
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