Shortly after I arrived in Beijing last year, a friend in South Korea asked me if I had yet bought a bicycle. As an avid motorcyclist for many years, who has ridden throughout New Zealand, Australia, the United States, South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia, I laughed at the thought of riding a bicycle. A self-affirmed adrenaline junkie, I wasn't yet ready to slow down to cycling speed.
'We are an Internet company, so we focus on providing service, not products," says Zhang Zhao, CEO of Le Vision Pictures, the filmmaking arm of LeTV Informational Technology Company.
"The first time Ang Lee pitched his story to me was the most boring, miserable and long-winded 45 minutes in my life," says James Schamus, senior producer, former CEO of Focus Features and a longtime work partner of Ang Lee's.
China's film industry should give greater support to indie films to keep them from being drowned by bigbudget commercial films as the domestic market grows fast. This is a common appeal made most recently by Chinese director Jia Zhangke and senior executives of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Even for Jean Jacques Annaud, known for his animal films The Bear and Two Brothers, the making of Wolf Totem has been a real challenge.
A "femaleoriented film", a love story like David Lean's Doctor Zhivago, a Chinese version of Titanic - these taglines have all been attributed to a veteran filmmaker's surprising new opus.
Shanghai Pride is preparing for its biggest annual bash in June, four months after the largest gay club in Asia, 1,500-capacity Icon, opened in the city around Valentine's Day. The former French Concession also recently hosted an LGBT speed dating event, indicating an increasingly open gay subculture in the city.
A photo exhibition in Beijing marks the 95th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement, an important cultural and political movement in modern China. The images were taken by American photographer Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968), grandson of James Gamble, one of the co-founders of Proctor & Gamble.
On April 25, 1953, a seminal article was published in Nature magazine detailing the distinct double-helix structure of DNA, allowing humans to have a first look at how living organisms are developed from their genetic blueprint.
As club sandwiches go, this undoubtedly is the biggest one in the solar system.
Scientists recently found new evidence that ancient Chinese, living 300,000 to 400,000 years ago, would pick their teeth.
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