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Artistic alliance: Tokyo to host Party
To mark the 35th anniversary of the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations, a grand opening ceremony of Sino-Japan Cultural and Gymnastic Communication Year will be held in Tokyo next month.
Both sides have established special committees to organize the activities for the year. With Chinese Minister of Culture Sun Jiazheng as the president, the Chinese organization committee will cooperate with its Japanese counterpart on nearly 100 projects in art, sport, travel, media, film and education.
How many words do 2,100 pictures paint?
The China Encyclopedia Picture Album Concerning Economy, Trade, Investment, and Tourism will hit bookstores this month.
The biggest of its kind, the encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and accurate picture album to date on the trade and economy, investment environment, tourist destinations, and local customs of China's provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions.
Featuring 2,100 pictures and a 460,000-word text, all the album's 11 volumes are available both in Chinese and English.
Chinese cavalcade hits Hollywood
More than 500 Beijing performers took part in a giant goodwill parade in Hollywood on Saturday to mark the spirit of harmony of the Chinese New Year celebrations.
The parade started at the historic Grauman's Chinese Theater and proceeded down Hollywood Boulevard. It lasted about two hours and culminated with the release of giant dragon balloons in the symbolic five colors of the Olympic rings and a Peace Dove balloon.
The cultural extravaganza, jointly sponsored by the Beijing and Los Angeles municipal governments, featured a colorful display of floats, dancers and traditional Chinese events.
Musical gives new color to ancient painting
Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) painter Zhang Zeduan's work Along the River During Qingming Festival is well-known for its panoramic scene that represents a broad cross-section of society from rural dwellers to urbanites.
Now the work has been adapted into a musical of the same title by the Kaifeng Song and Dance Ensemble of Central China's Henan Province.
The large-scale production involves a cast of 140 people and blends Peking Opera with acrobatics. It will be put on in Beijing's Tianqiao Theater on March 7 and 8, as a tribute to the ongoing 5th Session of the 10th National Committee of CPPCC.
"We hope to bring the audience back to the time of the Song Dynasty through this work," said the musical's director Huang Lei.
Scholar-artist bags US award
Chinese scholar Zhang Xuedong was awarded the George Kozmetsky Award presented by the Society for Design and Process Science in the United States for his research into Chinese traditional culture.
In his creative work Yi-picture Thinking, Zhang used 108 images, which look like Chinese calligraphy, to reveal the essence of Chinese traditional culture and the harmony between man and nature.
The award citation says "It is granted to those who have made great contributions to trans-diciplinary innovation." Zhang has spent more than 20 years studying Chinese philosophy.
China Daily
(China Daily 03/07/2007 page18)
