When Huang Yong was a young man studying bass, jazz music held little appeal. "When I was 20 years old, I couldn't bear listening to Miles Davis for 10minutes," says the founder of the Nine Gates Jazz Festival.
When Wang Xiaoxin was pursuing her studies at the Yale University School of Drama in 2006, she hoped to become an avant-garde theater director. However, she ended up being obsessed with Peking Opera.
Singer-songwriter Wakin Chau's idea about his latest album, Jiang Hu, was born in a small noodle restaurant in Taipei six years ago, when he was dining with Taiwan's notable author and literary critic Chang Ta-chun.
Yang Fudong's staged photographs often feel like stills from film noir - strikingly dreamlike in the stories they imply. In the series Ms Huang at M Last Night, a lovely young woman and her admirers are depicted in black-and-white in various scenes that emulate the voyeuristic eye of a paparazzo.
The versatility of Performance Workshop and Magnificent Culture Co has been proven beyond any doubt with their production of Dario Fo's madcap comedy I Won't Pay! I Won't Pay! on the heels of the elegant and exalted eight-hour epic A Dream Like a Dream.
Confucius' Analects say that "at 30, a man should stand firm".
In a country where dairy products are still not part of the daily diet of the masses, Ouyang Yuancheng is selling water-buffalo mozzarella, a niche product even in some relatively Westernized countries.
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