Halfway through Jet Li's film, Fearless, a biopic about China's 19th-century kungfu master Huo Yuanjia, Li's character Huo is shocked when he returns to his home city of Tianjin. The streets are crawling with Westerners lambasting the Chinese as "Asia's sickly people".
Jet Li burst on to the Hollywood scene in 1998 in Lethal Weapon 4, in which he had the pleasure of kicking and beating Mel Gibson to a pulp.
Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo (1952-1997) struggled all of his life to get his books published and distributed. Then, he died.
SHANGHAI: Shanghai has been referred to as the Paris of the East ever since the early 1930s. "The artists and audience here show a kinship to operas, dramas, films and novels," says Wu Xiaolu, a young Shanghai art critic who is enjoying a flourish of French this week.
Paris has long been a favorite destination for China's travelling lovers. But now, Paris aficionados don't have to take a trip to the city to appreciate its scenery and people.
It's not everyday you get a call from your favorite world-famous band asking you to be their support act. Short of seizing the keys to the world's biggest electric guitar store or being picked as the last-minute replacement for a headline slot at Wembley Stadium, it's pretty much every young musician's fantasy.
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