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Film finds ups and downs in 'golden era'

[2014-04-18 07:23]

Hong Kong director Ann Hui's new film The Golden Era, featuring a stellar-studded cast spearheaded by Tang Wei, will premiere on Oct 1.

Art beat...finger on the pulse

[2014-04-18 07:23]

Beijing Crossover show

Stories that sing

[2014-04-18 07:23]

Li Dun certainly has perseverance. Ever since he watched West End musicals in London in 1988, such as Cats and Les Miserables, he has been striving to make original musicals in China. The former owner of several nightclubs in Shenzhen in the early 1980s, Li also invested his own money into his musical career from Shenzhen to Beijing and Shanghai.

Doctor a hero to rural Xinjiang community

[2014-04-18 07:23]

In the Kazakh language, baerluke means abundant, rich and having all that's needed.

Changing media landscapes

[2014-04-18 07:23]

As an Asian journalist working in a Chinese newsroom, I am often left in limbo, not quite fitting into the American/Australian/British expatriate crowd, and not quite part of the Chinese editors' clique. It is a voluntary isolation that allows me an objective view of the changes that seem to have taken place overnight in the last five years.

History unearthed

[2014-04-17 07:21]

The Top 10 list of archaeological discoveries in China in 2013 was announced by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage last week, a prize which has been dubbed by media as "the Academy Awards of Chinese archaeology".

Never too late to learn

[2014-04-17 07:21]

Like many fathers, Su Yibin accompanied his daughter when she left for university; unlike other fathers, he stayed on campus.

Diplomatic calligraphy

[2014-04-17 07:21]

A winding path through thick trees leads to a clearing with a villa. It is an unusual scene in the middle of a modern metropolis. Calligrapher and educator Zhang Xuguang, 59, considers his 2,000-square-meter studio hidden beside a busy road in the north of Beijing a wonderland of inner tranquility and beauty - at least before the surrounding area is overtaken by real estate developers.

Private screenings

[2014-04-17 07:21]

To show its determination to improve the quality of its Internet productions, Youku Original Master's Micro Film project invited some of Asia's most renowned movie directors three years running to make short films for the diverse tastes of a growing Internet audience.

Disney-Shanghai partnership portends a creative boost

[2014-04-17 07:21]

Walt Disney Studios and Shanghai Media Group Pictures will co-develop stories with Chinese elements, says an executive of the Magic Kingdom.

Director tracks horror of child trafficking

[2014-04-17 07:21]

Hong Kong director Peter Chan's fifth film to be made on the mainland focuses on child smuggling.

Packing a punch

[2014-04-16 07:07]

When Inner Mongolia's unheralded Wang Yingang brought Shanghai Fight Night to a chilling climax with a bloody fifth-round knockout earlier this month, he sent a statement of intent to the mostly expat crowd and sponsors like the Macao-based Cotai Ring Club.

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