One of the United Kingdom's best loved dance companies, Northern Ballet Theatre, will bring its production of A Midsummer Night's Dream to Beijing. With Dior-inspired costumes, stylish black-and-white sets and a creative team, including artistic director David Nixon, set designer Duncan Hayler and music director John Pryce-Jones, the production is a stunning display of visual and musical delights. It is sure to bring out the comedy, romance and entanglements of this enchanting story.
Liu Hongjun loves sharing. He takes part in marathons to share his passion for running with thousands of others. He raises money to buy computers for poor children to spread his love of knowledge. Recently the software engineer decided to share another thing, the traditional handmade rice wine of his family. It had never occurred to Liu to make rice wine until one year ago when his wife gave birth. His mother came to Beijing and made rice wine to help her daughter-in-law produce breast milk. He used the extra wine to treat his friends at dinners and it became so popular that a lot of them came back for more.
Although cats may be one of the most popular pets today (there are an estimated 600 million worldwide), precious little is known about how and when humans and cats struck up their close relationship.
My 90-year-old mother-in-law is convinced the three-month drought in Beijing this winter is because of the recent moon landing. Her vigorous defense of this theory is an odd mixture of superstition and science, and it's pretty convincing.
A herd of Pere David's deer lower their heads to drink water from a mud flat. Always vigilant, they occasionally look around to check for danger. Behind them is a vast land of reeds where they like to hide. Pheasants duck in and out of the reeds and wild geese take to the skies. This is the Tian'ezhou Milu National Nature Reserve in Shishou, Hubei province. Surrounding the reserve are miles of farmland dotted with cottages, but in the reserve, animals and nature run wild. There are 1,061 milu - the Chinese name for the deer unique to the country - in the reserve. It's the largest wild herd in China and in the world, all descendents of the 94 deer shipped from Beijing's Milu Park in the 1990s.
A century-old tram gives Zhu Chengpei and Zhang Xiaomin a chance to hop on and hop off, exploring interesting aspects of a city rich in Russian traditions.
If you visit the ice festival in Harbin this month, the guidebooks won't tell you how to find the long, slick spot on the river bank, where you can slide butt-first down a chute of frozen reeds and slide smoothly onto the river's glassy surface.
Young musicians from South African and Chinese schools hit the right note together. Li Wenfang listens in.
Dressed like a locksmith, Wang Mingzhu arrives at his usual spot in the inner city of Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, at 9 am. But, unlike the usual locksmith, he is more interested in observing the crowds than his business. Wang is a plainclothes policeman.
Canada Post has unveiled a collection of Year of the Horse stamps to usher in the Chinese Lunar New Year, which begins on Jan 31.
A Buddha-head collector in Taiwan has donated all his trophies to the Chinese mainland. This is the third time that such religious cultural relics are returning home. Han Bingbin traces the history.
The Chicago musical tour in China may not happen after all.
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