When Jiang Wen breezes into the room with bottles of water and boxes of chocolate under his arms, the cameras start clicking. Jiang, one of China's top filmmakers, is accompanied by his 14-year-old daughter.
1961: Born on August 2 into an ethnically Korean family. His father was a professional trumpet player and his mother a member of a Korean minority dance troupe.
Three of the world's most respected sopranos, Kiri Te Kanawa, Kathleen Battle and Angela Gheorghiu, are set to hit Beijing all at the same time.
Hong Kong's king of comedy Stephen Chow says he has seen UFO's twice, which partially explains why he shot his latest feature film CJ7 (Changjiang Qihao), a combination of comedy and science fiction that premieres on January 11 in the United States, and at the end of the same month in China.
Valery Gergiev, leading performer of the Maryinsky Theater, has become the first foreign artist to climb atop the podium of the National Center for Performing Arts (NCPA), also known as the Grand National Theater, adding to the fanfare of the opening of the giant egg-shaped venue.
Sun Quanhui and his colleague unfold the long wings of a common buzzard, which stretch out like a great fan against the frigid wind. Sun smoothes the bird's feathers and puts it on the ground.
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