The Westin Pazhou has the advantage of being right by the largest exhibition venue in Asia - the Canton Fair Complex in Pazhou, Guangzhou.
Singapore's leading art fair Art Stage Singapore returns in January with a special focus on Asia. The new fair format incorporates eight country and regional platforms, including China.
It takes an outsider to inject something fresh into a tale as old and venerated as that of the Monkey King. If I were told that an African-American would play the lead role, I'd probably laugh it off as a gimmick. Most Chinese may not even be able to accept it as a gimmick.
It took four years and five months for Dadawa to put together her latest album Moonrise, which debuted in Guangzhou on Dec 7. The Chinese musician, whose real name is Zhu Zheqin, spent four months traveling through remote regions and collecting more than 1,000 samples from indigenous music masters from 15 ethnic groups. In the contracting recording industry, the artist took a big risk and worked like an "insane idiot" on the most important album for her in a decade. She worked with young musicians and breathed new life into the diverse samples by combining them with contemporary compositions.
To Chinese musician Dadawa (Zhu Zheqin), Moonrise is perhaps as important an album as Graceland was to Paul Simon, in the way that it opens new doors for her.
Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang says taking his boxing film to the theaters is a crapshoot. "The box-office draw of a documentary is unpredictable."
Renowned conductor Liu Fengde will lead the China Opera & Dance Symphony Orchestra to perform in a concert of classical Hollywood movie tracks, such as Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean and Forrest Gump. Scenes from the movies will be played on a screen onstage.
In celebration of its 12th anniversary, the National Theater of China will have one of its signature productions, Si Shi Tong Tang, or The Yellow Storm, performed at The Great Hall of the People. One of the renowned novelist Lao She's prominent creations, The Yellow Storm revolves around the struggles of three families in Beijing's Yangquan'er Hutong during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45). It reveals their different philosophies of life and inspiringly relates them to social turbulence and political reality. Directed by one of China's most accomplished drama directors, Tian Qinxin, and starring a list of celebrity actors otherwise rarely seen onstage, such as Tao Hong (pictured), the play has toured more than 38 Chinese cities since its premiere in Taipei in late 2010.
In early August, the National Center for the Performing Arts pins down its program for the upcoming spring season that usually starts in early January.
On a bright sunny day before winter's chill arrived, two dogs and a cat are enjoying a siesta under the shade of an old peach tree with branches weighed down by fruit. The fragrant bouquet of soil, tomatoes, cucumbers and corn floats through the warm air from nearby farms.
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