The ban on publicly funded banquets or "any form of extravagant spending" by the central government was ruthless but effective and the numbers are showing it. According to the Ministry of Commerce, revenue growth chalked up by the country's food and beverage industry in 2013 has been the slowest since 1991, except for 2003, the year SARS hit China.
Members of the Beijing chapter of Les Clefs d'Or met at the Jiuhua Resort and Convention Center for the local chapter's annual congress. Known as the Golden Key Association, this global hospitality organization has more than 150 members from close to 100 hotels in the Beijing region.
If you believe in fairy tales, go to Beijing's Sanlitun area to discover a red fox's wonderland-a secret garden of cartoon-themed installations displayed in shopping malls.
You can learn real Chinese kung fu in 90 minutes. You will learn nothing about fighting, but you will open your mind to the story of the nine virtues of man's spiritual struggle: purity, sutra, diligence, spirit, listening, shape, devotion, serenity and paradise. That's the promise of the show Kung Fu Revelations: 9 Scrolls, by Kung Fu Star Performing Group of China Poly Agency. Yu Yang, the agency president, came up with the idea and selected the young kung fu masters after visiting more than 100 of the best martial-arts schools in China.
The Venetian and Palazzo Las Vegas debuted Panda!, the first Chinese show to take up residency in Las Vegas, earlier this month. The 47-member troupe, led by acclaimed Chinese director Zhao An, opened to worldwide audiences just two weeks before the Lunar New Year.
As a drama director, Stan Lai is a firm believer in original creation.
Mahler wrote Symphony No 9 as a personal farewell to the world. A century later, Taiwan conductor Lu Shao-chia has paid tribute to the great composer by interpreting his masterpiece with an Oriental perspective.
American band Periphery will give its debut concert in China. Formed by guitarist Misha Mansoor in 2005, the Maryland-based Djent-style six-piece group named Periphery is best known for their progressive sound constructed on polyrhythmic patterns. Its self-titled, full-length debut was released in 2010. Periphery II: This Time it's Personal was released in 2012. This time they invited Wes Hauch (the Faceless) and John Petrucci (Dream Theater) to stop by the studio to contribute several jaw-dropping solos.
When Mao Chen first read the story of how two children ate magic marshmallows made of clouds and flew to deliver dinner for their father on a rainy day, the idea of linking sweets and fairy tales became an inspiration.
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