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Collection of crafty folks
The 2007 Shanghai Folk Culture Exposition will be held from June 9 to 13 at the East Asia Exhibition Hall in Shanghai.
The exposition will display unique crafts works from all over China, including a paper sculpture of Along the River During Qingming Festival (pictured), based on the famous painting of the same title from the Song Dynasty (960-1279), and figures of A Dream of Red Mansions made from wood shavings.
The audience will be encouraged to participate in the exposition's many art workshops teaching painting, sculpting, and making zongzi (pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves).
The exposition, which was founded in 2004, is sponsored by the Shanghai Social and Economic Exchange Association, the Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation Center and the Shanghai Jiansheng Culture and Education Development Company.
She's got the look
Jim Liae from South Korea prevailed as the winner of the 2007 Asia Super Models Competition, which was held on Saturday and Sunday in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The runner up was Chinese model Cai Bingyu and the second runner-up was the Japan's Lnoue Rena.
A total of 38 models from India, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand and China competed at the finals. Organized by China Bentley Culture Development Co,Ltd, Guangxi TV and Chinese Designers Association, the competition aims to discover new faces in Asia and promote them in the global fashion industry.
Global hunt for a tourism queen starts here
Kunming, capital city of Southwest China's Yunnan Province will host the final of 2007 Miss Tourism International at the end of October. Girls from more than 50 countries will compete for the crown.
In China, registrations will be taken from 10 cities in mid July and the final will be held in mid October. The winner will go to the world finals in Kunming. Of the Chinese finalists, 12 will be selected to serve as models for the teams at the F1 UIM Championship, a powerboat race held on October 5 in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province.
Fruity festival
Maoming's Litchi Culture Festival runs from June 8-15 in South China's Guangdong Province.
Events include calligraphy and painting exhibits, seminars on Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) history and literature, operas and a beauty pageant.
Maoming is known for its high quality litchis that sell not only in China but also in Asia, North America and Europe.
Maoming litchi became a tribute to the royal courts of ancient China in the Tang Dynasty. In Maoming today, at least 400 litchi trees have survived social changes and natural elements over the last 1,000 years.
Cartoons that aren't so Mickey Mouse
A group of art students have been lauded in Beijing for their thought-provoking cartoons that touch upon such environmental issues as global warming, excessive logging, pollution, and vanishing species.
They are winners of the 2007 University Cartoon Contest on Environmental Protection.
Jointly organized by the China Newscartoon website, China Environmental Protection Foundation, and China Journalistic Caricature Society, the contest attracted about 1,000 art majors from at least 30 art academies across China who submitted over 2,000 cartoon entries, according to Zhang Yaoning, editor-in-chief of Newscartoon and a key organizer of the event.
One gold prize winning cartoon by Mao Yuanyuan is picutred here.
China Daily
(China Daily 06/07/2007 page18)
